Translation of the transcript of the
presentation by Thierry Meyssan on 8 April 2002 at the Zayed Center in Abu
Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), at a gathering organized under the auspices Arab
League.For the
original French text click here . Read also in French,
the transcript of
Meyssan's Interview with TV5.
Your Highness, Excellencies, Ladies and
Gentlemen,
In the first minutes following the first
attack on the World Trade Center, officials suggested to the media that the
person behind the attacks was Osama bn Laden, the epitome of Muslim
fanaticism. Not long after, the recently appointed director of the FBI, Robert
Mueller III, designated nineteen kamikazes by name and mobilized all the means
at the disposal of his agency to track down their accomplices. The FBI thus
never undertook any investigation but, instead, organized a man hunt, which,
in the eyes much of the United States public, quickly took on the appearance
of an Arab hunt. This reached such a pitch that people were incited to attack
– even kill – Arabs whom they naively considered collectively responsible for
the attacks.
There was no investigation by Congress,
which, at the request of the White House, renounced exercising its
constitutional role, supposedly in order not to adversely affect national
security. Nor was there investigation by any media representatives, who had
been summoned to the White House and prevailed upon to abstain from following
up any leads lest such inquiries also adversely affect national security.
If we analyze the attacks of September the
eleventh, we notice first off that there was much more to them than the
official version acknowledges.
1.We know about only four planes, whereas at
one point it was a question of eleven planes. Further, an examination of the
insider-trading conducted in relation to the attacks shows put-option
speculative trading in the stock of three airline companies: American
Airlines, United Airlines and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. 2.The official version
does not include the attack on the White House annex, the Old Executive Office
Building (called the "Eisenhower Building"). Yet, on the morning of the
eleventh, ABC television broadcast, live, pictures of a fire ravaging the
presidential services building. 3.Neither does the official version take into
account the collapse of a third building in Manhattan World Trade Center
complex, independently of the twin towers. This third building was not hit by
a plane. However, it, too, was ravaged by a fire before collapsing for an
unknown reason. This building contained the world's biggest secret CIA
operations base, where the Agency engaged in economic intelligence gathering
that the military-industrial lobby considered a waste of resources that should
have been devoted to strategic intelligence gathering.
If we look closely at the attack against the
Pentagon, we notice that the official version amounts to an enormous lie.
According to the Defense Department, a
Boeing 757, all trace of which had been lost somewhere over Ohio, flew some
500 kilometers (300 miles) without being noticed. It supposedly entered
Pentagon air space and descended on to the lawn surrounding the heliport,
bounced off the lawn, broke a wing in collision with an electric transformer
station, hit the façade at the level of the ground floor and first story, and
was totally consumed by fire, leaving no other traces than two dysfunctional
black boxes and pieces of passengers' bodies.
It is obviously impossible that a Boeing 757
could, for some 500 kilometers, escape detection by civil and military radar,
by fighter-bomber planes sent in pursuit of it and by observation satellites
that had just been activated.
It is also obviously impossible that a
Boeing 757 could enter the Pentagon's air space without being destroyed by one
or more of the five missile batteries protecting the building.
When one examines the photographs of the
façade, taken in the minutes following the attack (even before the Arlington
civilian fire fighters had time to deploy), one sees no trace of the right
wing on fire in front of the façade, nor any hole in the façade into which the
plane could have been swallowed up.
Apparently without the least fear of laying
itself open to ridicule, the Defense Department declared that the jet engines,
made out of tempered steel, had disintegrated under the shock of the impact –
without damaging the façade. The aluminum of the fuselage is claimed to have
combusted at more than 2,500° Celsius within the building and to have been
transformed into gas, but the bodies of the passengers which it contained were
so little burned that they were later identified from their finger prints.
Responding to journalists during a press
conference at the Pentagon, the fire chief claimed that "no voluminous debris
from the aircraft" had remained, "nor any piece of the fuselage, nor anything
of that sort". He declared that neither he nor his men knew what had become of
the aircraft.
Close examination of the official
photographs of the scene of the attack, taken and published by the Defense
Department, shows that no part of the Pentagon bears any mark of an impact
that could be attributed to the crash of a Boeing 757.
One must acknowledged the evidence: it is
impossible that the attack against the Pentagon on September 11, killing 125
persons, was carried out by a jet airliner.
The scene of the attack was thoroughly
disturbed on the following day by the immediate launch of new construction
work, with the result that many of the elements necessary to reconstruct what
had happened are missing. The elements that do remain, however, converge in a
single hypothesis that it is not possible to prove with certainty.
An air traffic controller from Washington
has testified seeing on radar an object flying at about 800 kilometers per
hour, moving initially toward the White House, then turning sharply toward the
Pentagon, where it seemed to crash. The air traffic controller has testified
that the characteristics of the flight were such that it could only have been
a military projectile.
Several hundred witnesses have claimed that
they head "a shrill noise like the noise of a fighter-bomber", but nothing
like the noise of a civilian aircraft.
Eye-witnesses have said that they saw
"something like a cruise missile with wings" or a small flying object "like a
plane carrying eight or twelve persons".
The flying object penetrated the building
without causing major damage to the façade. It crossed several of the building
rings of the Pentagon, creating in each wall it pierced a progressively bigger
hole. The final hole, perfectly circular, measured about one meter eighty in
diameter. When traversing the first ring of the Pentagon, the object set off a
fire, as gigantic as it was sudden. Huge flames burst from the building
licking the façades, then they shrank back just as fast, leaving behind a
cloud of black soot. The fire spread through a part of the first ring and
along two perpendicular corridors. It was so sudden that the fire protection
system could not react.
All these testimonies and observations
correspond to the effects of an AGM[air to ground missile]-86C of the third
(most recent) generation of CALCM [conventional air launched cruise missile --
see picture at http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/agm-86c.htm], equipped
with depleted uranium warheads and guided by GPS [global positioning system].
This type of missile, seen from the side, would easily remind one of a small
civilian airplane, but it is not a plane. It produces a shrill whistle
comparable to that of a fighter-bomber, can be guided with enough accuracy to
be directed through a window, can pierce the most resistant armor and can set
off a fire – independent of its piercing effect – that will generate heat of
over 2,000° Celsius.
This type of missile was developed jointly
by the Navy and the Air Force and is fired from a plane. The missile used
against the Pentagon destroyed the part of the building where the new Supreme
Naval Command Center was being installed. Following the attack, the Navy Chief
of Staff, Admiral Vernon Walters, failed to show up in the crisis room of the
National Military Joint Intelligence Center when the other members of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff reported there. Instead, he abruptly left the Pentagon.
Who, then, could have fired such a missile
on the Pentagon? The answer was given by the off-the-record revelations of Ari
Fleischer, the White House spokesman, and by Karl Rove, senior advisor to the
president, to journalists from the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Eighteen days later, these men discounted the veracity of the information they
had given the journalists, claiming that they had been speaking under the
stress of great emotion.
According to those close to George W. Bush,
in the course of the morning, the Secret Service received a telephone call
from those behind the attacks, apparently in order to make demands. To give
credence to their demands, the masterminds revealed the secret codes giving
access to the secure telephone lines available to the president for secure
communication with the various intelligence agencies and services as well as
for access to the nuclear arsenal. In fact, only a very few persons with the
highest security clearances, in the top ranks of the government, could have
had these codes. It follows that at least one of the persons behind the
attacks of September 11 has a top government post, either civilian or
military.
To give credence to the fable of Islamic
terrorists, the United States authorities invented kamikazes.
Although it would have been possible for a
well organized group of persons to bring fire arms into commercial air liners,
the kamikazes apparently used cardboard cutters as their only weapons. They
are said to have learned to pilot Boeing 757s and 767s in the space of several
hours of simulator training, becoming better pilots than professionals. This
mastery allowed them to carry out complex in-flight approach maneuvers.
The Justice Department has never explained
how it established the list of the kamikazes. The airline companies have
furnished the exact number of passengers in each plane, and the passenger
lists, incomplete, do not mention the persons who boarded at the last minute.
In checking the these lists, one notices that names of the kamikazes are not
on them and that only three passengers are not identified for flight 11 and
only two for flight 93. It is thus impossible that 19 kamikazes boarded.
Further, several of those listed as kamikazes have turned up, alive. The FBI
nonetheless maintains that the high-jackers have all been definitively
identified and that complementary information such as birth dates makes it
improbable that they could be confused with persons of the same name. For
those who might doubt this, the FBI has a ridiculous proof: whereas the planes
burned and the twin towers collapsed, the passport of Mohammed Atta was
miraculously found intact on the smoking ruins of the World Trade Center.
The existence of high-jackers, whether these
or others, is confirmed by telephone calls made by several passengers to
members of their families. Unfortunately, these conversations are known to us
only by hearsay and have not been published, even in the case of those that
were recorded. Thus, it has been impossible to verify that they were actually
made from a particular cell phone of from a telephone on board. Here, too, we
are asked to take the FBI at its word.
Further, it was not indispensable to have
high-jackers to carry out the attacks. The Global Hawk technology, developed
by the Air Force, makes it possible to take control of a commercial airliner
regardless of the intentions of its pilot(s) and to direct it by remote
control.
There remains the case of Osama bn Laden. If
it is generally admitted that he was a CIA agent or collaborator during the
war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, the current version of events
claims that he turned coat and became public enemy number one of the United
States. This story does not bear up under scrutiny either. The French daily le
Figaro revealed that last July, Osmam bn Laden was a patient at the American
hospital in Dubai, where he was visited by the head of CIA regional office.
CBS television in the United States has revealed that, on September 10, Osama
bn Laden was undergoing dialysis at the Rawalpindi military hospital, under
the protection of the Pakistani army. And the renown French journalist Michel
Peyrard, who was a prisoner of the Taliban, has recounted how, last November,
Osama bn Laden was living openly in Jalalabad while the United States was
bombing other regions of the country. It is difficult to believe that the
greatest army in the world, come to Afghanistan to arrest him, was unable to
do so, while the mollah Omar was able to escape from United States military
force on a moped.
In view of the elements that I have just
presented, it appears that the attacks of September can not be attributed to
foreign terrorists from the Arab-Muslim world – even if some of those involved
might have been Muslim – but to United States terrorists.
The day after the attacks of September 11,
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1368 acknowledged "the inherent
right of individual or collective self-defense in accordance with the
Charter", calling on "all States to work together urgently to bring to justice
the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of these terrorist attacks and
stresses that those responsible for aiding, supporting or harboring the
perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of these acts will be held accountable".
If one wishes to heed the call of the
Security Council, to enforce Resolution 1368 and to punish those who really
are guilty, the only way to accurately identify the guilty parties is to set
up a commission of inquiry whose independence and objectivity are guaranteed
by the United Nations. This would also be the only way to preserve
international peace. In the meantime, Your Highness, Excellencies, Ladies and
Gentlemen, the foreign military interventions of the United States of America
are devoid of any basis in international law, whether it be their recent
intervention in Afghanistan or their announced interventions in Iran, Iraq and
in numerous other countries.
