9/11 Myths: Disinfo Site

[Christopher Marlowe]

I figured it was time that we start a thread that debunks the disinfo site called "9/11 Myths".  I won't provide a link because that site is pure crap. [If you want to find the site, google: "911 Myths israeli site"] Basically they promote the official story, and lull the curious reader back to sleep. It's kind of like the 9/11 version of "Nizkor" in that way. (I had a discussion about a fellow who "knew it all" about 9/11, and when I asked him for his source, he pointed me to 9/11 Myths.  Sigh.)  

For the first installment, I thought I would tackle the passenger manifests of the 4 jets that were allegedly hijacked by Muslim extremists, and which were allegedly crashed into: two over insured and largely vacant buildings in New York; the highly protected center of the US Military Industrial Complex; and a previously existing hole in the ground in Pennsylvania.  

"9/11 Myths" supposedly has the passenger manifests of AA flights 11 and 77, and United flights 175 and 93. Just a brief search revealed this nugget by David Ray Griffin:

Was America Attacked by Muslims on 9/11?
http://davidraygriffin.com/articles/was ... ms-on-911/
...8. Were the Names of the "Hijackers" on the Passenger Manifests?

What about the passenger manifests, which list all the passengers on the flights? If the alleged hijackers purchased tickets and boarded the flights, their names would have been on the manifests for these flights. And we were told that they were. According to counterterrorism coordinator Richard Clarke, the FBI told him at about 10:00 that morning that it recognized the names of some al-Qaeda operatives on passenger manifests it had received from the airlines.[77]  As to how the FBI itself acquired its list, Robert Bonner, the head of Customs and Border Protection, said to the 9/11 Commission in 2004:

   

On the morning of 9/11, through an evaluation of data related to the passenger manifest for the four terrorist hijacked aircraft, Customs Office of Intelligence was able to identify the likely terrorist hijackers. Within 45 minutes of the attacks, Customs forwarded the passenger lists with the names of the victims and 19 probable hijackers to the FBI and the intelligence community. [78]

Under questioning, Bonner added:

    We were able to pull from the airlines the passenger manifest for each of the four flights. We ran the manifest through [our lookout] system. . . . y 11:00 AM, I'd seen a sheet that essentially identified the 19 probable hijackers. And in fact, they turned out to be, based upon further follow-up in detailed investigation, to be the 19.[79]

Bonner's statement, however, is doubly problematic. In the first place, the initial FBI list, as reported by CNN on September 13 and 14, contained only 18 names.[80] Why would that be if 19 men had already been identified on 9/11?

Second, several of the names on the FBI's first list, having quickly become problematic, were replaced by other names. For example, the previously discussed men named Bukhari, thought to be brothers, were replaced on American 11′s list of hijackers by brothers named Waleed and Wail al-Shehri. Two other replacements for this flight were Satam al-Suqami, whose passport was allegedly found at Ground Zero, and Abdul al-Omari, who allegedly went to Portland with Atta the day before 9/11. Also, the initial list for American 77 did not include the name of Hani Hanjour, who would later be called the pilot of this flight. Rather, it contained a name that, after being read aloud by a CNN correspondent, was transcribed "Mosear Caned."[81] All in all, the final list of 19 hijackers contained six names that were not on the original list of 18—a fact that contradicts Bonner's claim that by 11:00 AM on 9/11 his agency had identified 19 probable hijackers who, in fact, "turned out to be. . . the 19."

These replacements to the initial list also undermine the claim that Amy Sweeney, by giving the seat numbers of three of the hijackers to Michael Woodward of American Airlines, allowed him to identify Atta and two others. This second claim is impossible because the two others were Abdul al-Omari and Satam al-Suqami,[82] and they were replacements for two men on the original list—who, like Adnan Bukhari, turned up alive after 9/11.[83] Woodward could not possibly have identified men who were not added to the list until several days later.[84]

For all these reasons, the claim that the names of the 19 alleged hijackers were on the airlines' passenger manifests must be considered false.

This conclusion is supported by the fact that the passenger manifests that were released to the public included no names of any of the 19 alleged hijackers and, in fact, no Middle Eastern names whatsoever.[85] These manifests, therefore, support the suspicion that there were no al-Qaeda hijackers on the planes.

It might appear that this conclusion is contradicted by the fact that passenger manifests with the names of the alleged hijackers have appeared. A photocopy of a portion of an apparent passenger manifest for American Flight 11, with the names of three of the alleged hijackers, was published in a 2005 book by Terry McDermott, Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers.[86] McDermott reportedly said that he received these manifests from the FBI.[87] [This is the "911 Myths" site] But the idea that these were the original manifests is problematic.

For one thing, they were not included in the evidence presented by the FBI to the Moussaoui trial in 2006.[88] If even the FBI will not cite them as evidence, why should anyone think they are genuine?

Another problem with these purported manifests, copies of which can be viewed on the Internet,[89] is that they show signs of being late creations. One such sign is that Ziad Jarrah's last name is spelled correctly, whereas in the early days after 9/11, the FBI was referring to him as "Jarrahi," as news reports from the time show.[90] A second sign is that the manifest for American Flight 77 contains Hani Hanjour's name, even though its absence from the original list of hijackers had led the Washington Post to wonder why Hanjour's "name was not on the American Airlines manifest for the flight."[91] A third sign is that the purported manifest for American Flight 11 contains the names of Wail al-Shehri, Waleed al-Shehri, Satam al-Suqami, and Abdul al-Omari, all of whom were added some days after 9/11.

In sum, no credible evidence that al-Qaeda operatives were on the flights is provided by the passenger manifests.

Sources:
77. Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror (New York: Free Press, 2004), 13.

78. "Statement of Robert C. Bonner to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States," 26 January 2004 (http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/ ... bonner.htm).

79. Ibid.

80. "FBI: Early Probe Results Show 18 Hijackers Took Part," CNN, 13 September 2001 (http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/13/i ... .terrorism); "List of Names of 18 Suspected Hijackers," CNN, 14 September 2001 (http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ ... bn.01.html).

81. "List of Names of 18 Suspected Hijackers."

82. Gail Sheehy, "Stewardess ID'd Hijackers Early, Transcripts Show," New York Observer, 15 February 2004 (http://www.observer.com/node/48805).

83. Satam al-Suqami replaced a man named Amer Kamfar, and Abdulaziz al-Omari replaced a man with a similar name, Abdulrahman al-Omari; see Kolar, "What We Now Know," 12-15.

84. Another problem with the claim that Woodward had identified these three men is that the seat numbers reportedly used to identify Atta and al-Omari (see Gail Sheehy, "Stewardess ID'd Hijackers Early") did not match the numbers of the seats assigned to these two men (9/11CR 2).

85. All four passenger manifests can be found at http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade. ... ctims.html.

86. Terry McDermott, Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It (New York: HarperCollins, 2005), photo section after p. 140.

87. This is stated at "The Passengers," 911myths.com (http://911myths.com/html/the_passengers.html).

88. Although discussions on the Internet have often claimed that these manifests were included in the FBI's evidence for the Moussaoui trial, several researchers failed to find them. See Jim Hoffman's discussion at http://911research.wtc7.net/planes/evid ... ngers.html.

89. To view them, see "Passenger Lists," 9-11 Research (http://911research.wtc7.net/planes/evid ... .html#ref9). To download them and/or read cleaned-up versions, see "The Passengers," 911myths.com (http://911myths.com/html/the_passengers.html).

90. "Hijackers Linked to USS Cole Attack? Investigators Have Identified All the Hijackers; Photos to Be Released," CBS News, 14 September 2001 (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/09/ ... 0963.shtml); Elizabeth Neuffer, "Hijack Suspect Lived a Life, or a Lie," Boston Globe, 25 September 2001 (http://web.archive.org/web/200109251237 ... lie+.shtml).

91. "Four Planes, Four Coordinated Teams," Washington Post, 16 September 2001 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/na ... ckers.html).

My Conclusion: If these passenger manifests were real, they would have been available right after 9/11, and there would not have been any discrepancies or changes.  After every other airline accident, the manifests are published and there are no changes.  But on 9/11, the passenger manifests were not available and went through many changes. Then years later they are made available on the "myth debunking site".  

Why is it that the laws of physics, the SOP of the US Air Force, the availability of building blueprints, the investigation of fires and airline crashes, and the distribution of flight manifests ALL changed on 9/11?  If there was no conspiracy, all of these investigations would have proceeded in the normal fashion.  All of the information would have become available as it normally does.  But EVERYTHING was different on 9/11. Why? Because the whole story is completely bogus, from soup to nuts.  People who believe the official story are either asleep, retarded, or protecting the guilty.  

If you would like to debunk a section of "911 Myths" here, please feel free.