HINTERGRUND, Heft 03 - 11 - 11.9. - Zehn Jahre danach
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Zehn Jahre danach
Der Einsturz eines Lügengebäudes – Buchauszug
Von MATHIAS BRÖCKERS und CHRISTAN C. WALTHER
Anmerkungen – nach Kapiteln
Die Finanzierung
1 Commission Report, S. 172: „The 9/11 plotters spent somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 to plan and conduct their attack.“; www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf
2 Ebd., S. 172: „To date, the US government has not been able to determine the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks. Ultimately the question is of little practical significance.“
3 Ebd., S. 169: „The origin of the funds remains unknown, although we have a general idea of how al Qaeda financed itself during the period leading up to 9/11.“
4 Ebd., S. 172: „Our investigation has uncovered no credible evidence that any person in the United States gave the hijackers substantial financial assistance. Similarly, we have seen no evidence that any foreign government – or foreign government official supplied any funding.“
5 Ebd., S. 172 (Hervorhebungen von uns): „The available evidence indicates that the
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1www.vaed.uscourts.gov/notablecases/moussaoui/exhibits/prosecution/thumbs/WT00001A.jpg
2 Hearing der 9/11-Commission, 26.1.2004; www.9-11commission.gov/archive/hearing7/9-11Commission_Hearing_2004-01-26.htm
3 Guardian, 19.3.2003: „The idea that Mohamed Atta’s (sic!) passport had escaped from that inferno unsinged [tests] the credulity of the staunchest supporter of the FBI’s crackdown on terrorism.“; www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/mar/19/september11.iraq
4 Commission Report, S. 525: „Only the passports of Satam al Suqami and Abdul Aziz al Omari were recovered after 9/11. Both had been doctored.“
5 Ebd., S. 528: „Suqami was the only hijacker not to obtain a U.S. identification document.“
6 Ebd.: „for reasons that remain unknown“
7 CNN, 28.9.2001: „Attorney General Ashcroft and FBI Director Mueller Give an Investigation Update“; http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/28/se.20.html
8 Ashcroft, zit.n. ebd.: „These three documents – this letter is clear evidence linking the hijackers on the three separate flights on September 11.“
9 Laut FBI-Affidavit waren beide Koffer auf Atta zugelassen; www.abc.net.au/4corners/atta/resources/documents/fbiaffidavit10.htm. In einem Memo der Behörde von 2004 heißt es aber, beide Männer hätten je einen Koffer dabei gehabt: http://media.nara.gov/9-11/MFR/t-0148-911MFR-00038.pdf. Auch bezüglich des Inhalts der Koffer sind die Beamten sich nicht einig. Das Affidavit vom Morgen des
12. September erwähnt keinen in den Koffern enthaltenen Pass von Al-Omari, per Nachtrag von 2004 sollte er sich dann aber doch von Anfang an in Al-Omaris Koffer befunden haben.
10 Faksimile von Attas Testament: www.abc.net.au/4corners/atta/resources/documents/will1.htm
11 Doch – ein Grund könnte einem einfallen: dass er davon ausging, mit AA 11 zu landen, irgendetwas zu fordern und ggf. bei der Erstürmung der entführten Maschine erschossen zu werden. In diesem Fall wäre ein Testament im Gepäckraum nicht die verkehrteste Idee gewesen, aber dann hätte Atta auch tatsächlich nur geplant, ein Flugzeug zu entführen und garantiert nicht ins World Trade Center zu rasen. Was wiederum Fragen aufwirft, die wir uns gern für die späteren Verhandlungstage aufheben. Weshalb diese Anmerkung auch hier steht, nämlich am Rande resp. in den Anmerkungen.
12 Seymour Hersh, „What went wrong“, in: New Yorker, 20.10.2001: „A former highlevel intelligence official told me, ‘Whatever trail was left was left deliberately – for the F.B.I. to chase.’“; http://www.scribd.com/doc/16313245/T4-B8-Hersh-What-Went-Wrong-Fdr-10101-Seymour-M-Hersh-Article-1st-Pg-Scanned-for-Reference-Fair-Use-511
13 Zugegeben, Ziad Jarrah war nicht der einzige, der sich am 11. September auch Verwandten gegenüber überdeutlich auswies. Wir erinnern uns an die legendären Worte des United-93-Passagiers Mark Bingham, der seine Mutter anrief und sich mit den Worten meldete: „Mom, hier ist Mark Bingham.“
14 „In mörderischer Mission“, Focus, 19.11.2001: „Nach Focus-Informationen schickte Jarrah seiner Freundin in Bochum am Tag vor dem Anschlag ein Päckchen mit mehreren Unterlagen über seine Flugausbildung zu.“; www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/ermittlung-in-moerderischer-mission_aid_192596.html
15 „Alle werden sich freuen“, Spiegel Online, 17.11.2001: „Das Paket schickte der Libanese, der von 1996 an in Greifswald und Hamburg studierte, aus den USA nach Deutschland. Wegen einer offenbar fehlerhaften Adresse konnte es hier allerdings nicht zugestellt werden und ging zurück in die USA, wo es den Fahndern in die Hände fiel. Neben Unterlagen über Jarrahs Flugstunden fanden sie auch solche über eine bisher nicht bekannte Tauchausbildung. Die Ermittler rätseln jetzt, ob ursprünglich andere Anschlagziele geplant waren.“; www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,168260,00.html
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Das Gespenst: Phantomflug AA 11
1 Commission Report, S. 26: „We have not been able to identify the source of this information.“
2 Eine gründliche Dokumentation von Scoggins’ Meldungen am 11.9. findet sich in den History Commons unter www.historycommons.org/searchResults.jsp?searchtext=scoggins&events=on&entities=on&articles=on&topics=on&timelines=on&projects=on&titles=on&descriptions=on&dosearch=on&search=Go
3 Commission Report, S.26: „At 9:21, NEADS received a report from the FAA:
FAA: Military, Boston Center. I just had a report that American 11 is still in the air,
and it’s on its way towards – heading towards Washington
NEADS: Okay. American 11 is still in the air?
FAA: Yes
NEADS: On its way towards Washington?
FAA: That was another – it was evidently another aircraft that hit the tower. That’s
the latest report we have
NEADS: Okay
FAA: I’m going to try to confirm an ID for you, but I would assume he’s somewhere
over, uh, either New Jersey or somewhere further south
NEADS: Okay. So American 11 isn’t the hijack at all then, right
FAA: No, he is a hijack
NEADS: He – American 11 is a hijack?
FAA: Yes
NEADS: And he’s heading into Washington?
FAA: Yes. This could be a the third aircraft“Ergänzend hier die Aussage von Lt. Colonel Dawne Deskins, zit.n. „9/11. Interviews by Peter Jennings“, ABC News 11.9.2002: „They told us that they showed the American Airlines Flight 11 was still airborne. So now, we’re looking at this, well if, if an aircraft hit the World Trade Center, who was that?“ Die vollständige Transkription des TV-Beitrages findet sich unter http://911myths.com/index.php/ABC_News_9-11-2002
4 E-Mail von Colin Scoggins an uns, August 2006: „Someone on the telcon said that AAL 11 was still in the air. Not exactly who or why, and I don’t even know who was on that telcon, the following I am sure of, The Command Center someone from Washington National Tower, possibly Dulles Tower, I don’t think other agencies were on that early.“
5 Die „Irrtümer“ wegen dieses Phantomflugs sind umfassend. Vgl. Commission Report, S. 27 f., Hervorhebungen von uns:“In public testimony before this Commission in May 2003, NORAD officials stated that at 9:16, NEADS received hijack notification of United 93 from the FAA. This statement was incorrect. There was no hijack to report at 9:16. United 93 was proceeding normally at that time. In this same public testimony, NORAD officials stated that at 9:24, NEADS received notification of the hijacking of American 77. This statement was also incorrect. The notice NEADS received at 9:24 was that American 11 had not hit the World Trade Center and was heading for Washington, D.C.In their testimony and in other public accounts, NORAD officials also stated that the Langley fighters were scrambled to respond to the notifications about American 77, United 93, or both. These statements were incorrect as well. The fighters were scrambled because of the report that American 11 was heading south. … Yet this response to a phantom aircraft was not recounted in a single public timeline or statement issued by the FAA or Department of Defense. The inaccurate accounts created the impression that the Langley scramble was a logical response to an actual hijacked aircraft. In fact, not only was the scramble prompted by the mistaken information about American 11, but NEADS never received notice that American 77 was hijacked. … the fighters were in the wrong place to be able to help. They had been responding to a report about an aircraft that did not exist.“
6 Die Wortmeldung von Colin Scoggins (alias Cheapshot) auf Break for News, 25.8.2006 (Hervorhebungen von uns): „First the fact that there was a call about phantom flight 11 is for real, and not fake, and it does exist. I made that call. … I had made probably 40 phone calls to NEADS over the course of that morning. The calls I made that morning the majority of them were made on the DSN phone system. Boston Center does not record the DSN phone system but NEADS does. The justice department was under the impression that my interview would take about 5 minutes, due to the fact that only three of my calls were on the hotline to NEADS from Boston Center … these (NORAD) tapes had my calls that AAL 11 was still airborne, and my calls about AAL 77, 6 miles southwest of the whitehouse. So again I reiterate that the tapes are real, the person who made those calls is for real, for it is I who made them.“; www.breakfornews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=493
7 Aus denen wir im Folgenden zitieren, soweit Colin Scoggins seine Aussagen auch anderswo öffentlich unterstrichen hat. Die genaueren Zusammenhänge, Vermutungen und Namen müssen wir uns allerdings für die Hauptverhandlung aufheben, denn Scoggins hat uns nicht gestattet, ihn diesbezüglich öffentlich zu zitieren.
8 E-Mail von Colin Scoggins an uns, September 2006: „… two years later, General Arnold and Colonel Marr are left guessing why they launched the fighters from Langley, they are left with it must have been AAL 77, because it was the only thing that made sense, they didn’t have any tapes stating that I had called them.“
9 History Commons, „September 11, 2001: Boston Center Military Liaison Makes His First Call to NEADS, Though 9/11 Commission Does Not Mention It“: „(Scoggins) deserves a lot of credit because he was about the only one that was feeding us information. I don’t know exactly where he got it. But he was feeding us information as much as he could.“, www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a835scogginscalls#a835scogginscalls
10 E-Mail von Colin Scoggins an uns, September 2006: „All’s I did was report that there was a target near the Whitehouse from a conversation on one of the Telcons we were listening to …This was basically the response from Washington Center: ‘How does Boston Center know of any target near the White House’ and they hung up on NEADS.“
11 Wir geben Scoggins’ E-Mail-Wortlaut nicht wieder, aber es kam „erwürgen“ drin vor und auch das Wort „Arschlöcher“.
12 Vgl. History-Commons, „(10:20 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Boston Center Controller Notices Unidentified Aircraft Approaching from East“ (Hervorhebungen von uns): „Scoggins says: ‘We have a large, slow-moving target approaching Cape Cod and heading for Boston. Do you have it? What is it?’ The person at Giant Killer only replies, ‘We’re looking,’ and then mentions, ‘We’ve got a fleet of ships heading toward the northeast and an Aegis cruiser [a high-tech warship] on the way.’ Scoggins is worried that Giant Killer is unable to specifically identify the target he is seeing on his radar screen. It appears to be flying straight toward the Boston Center. He thinks to himself, ‘If I wanted to use airliners to attack a country, I would take out their air traffic control facilities!’ Scoggins continues watching the suspicious aircraft on his radar screen. Shortly afterward, the Boston Center will be evacuated after the FAA’s New England regional office calls it and reports an unidentified aircraft heading toward the facility.“; www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a1020slowtarget#a1020slowtarget
13 Vgl. Spencer, Touching History, S. 242 f.
14 Break for News, 25.8.2006: „They can add ghost targets to their simulations. I believe they can mix with live traffic, when we do simulations at the center for our FAA tranining …“; www.breakfornews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=493In den Vorschriften der Übung Vigilant Guardian für den 11. September wurden die militärischen Teilnehmer allerdings darauf hingewiesen, sie sollten auf ihren eigenen Schirmen den „Q-93“-Schalter auf „mixed“ stellen, um echte und simulierte Radarsignale auseinanderhalten zu können. Wörtlich heißt es in den Memo SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS (SPINS) VIGILANT GUARDIAN 01-2, Department of the Air Force vom 23.8.2001: „Q 93 CONFIGURATION: The exercise will be conducted Sim over Live on the Air Sovereignty string. The Q-93 must be placed in the Mixed Mode to allow the Telling of Sim tracks.“Ob diese Q-93-Mischung auch auf den Bostoner Schirmen wie gewünscht ankam – darüber können wir nur mutmaßen.
15 Der Roman zu diesem Verschwörungsszenario ist Cooper, Das fünfte Flugzeug.