
The 9/11 attack was the most
photographed, videotaped and watched event in the history of
mankind. But so much of what happened still remains shrouded in mystery—the 28
blank white pages of the Congressional 9/11 Intelligence Committee Report, for
example—that the difficulty in an attempt to outline even a Cliff Notes’ Version
of the secret history of 9/11 is that a virtual mountain of evidence has been
deliberately suppressed.
It's the proverbial elephant
under the rug. An embarrassment of riches. A 'target-rich' environment. The question is: where to
start? Where to begin pulling on the thread?
Its a little like that once
faced by helpful Republicans when they were offering Richard Nixon advice
on escaping impeachment. One naive soul told him he should just tell the truth.
But even if he'd wanted
to come clean and tell the truth, some knew, Nixon couldn't, because...he
wouldn't know where to start.
Start with Rudi Dekkers? Should the secret history of the 9/11
attack begin with Dekkers’ passing out bunks to the newly-arrived Mohamed Atta and
Marwan Al-Shehhi?
Making a clean breast about a lifetime of crime?
Rudi
Dekkers testified to Congress that he had nothing to do
with the terrorist ringleader and his beefy bodyguard after they left his flight
school in December 2000.
Yet the local cab driver for
Venice Yellow Cab, a Navy veteran who knew Dekkers well, and whose recollections
were relied on by the FBI in the days after the attack to ferret out lairs of
Saudi nationals suspected of being stay-behind terrorist pilots, remembers
Dekkers and Atta being together just ten days before the attack,
going to dinner, and to a Sarasota nightclub.
Dekkers couldn't tell the
truth anymore than Nixon could. So, just where is Rudi
Dekkers today...in prison for lying to Congress about his role in an event that
took almost 3000 innocent lives?
Nope... He’s shopping a
book, and offering his services... as a motivational speaker!
He even has his
own “Rudi Dekkers Motivational Speaker
Website:
“How to get through
life, listen to Rudi's experience.”
Mr. Dekkers’ advice on “how
to get through life,” we presume, contains tips for staying below the 80th floor
of American skyscrapers.
Where the Streets Have No Name

Another logical place to
begin an account of 9/11’s Secret History would be in Hamburg, with the mysterious
no-name German couple who recruited Mohamed Atta in Cairo and brought him to
Hamburg, and whose identity remains--even today!-- too sensitive to have appeared in any
American newspaper.
The couple (let's call
them Jack and Jill) worked as recruiters for an elite international
“exchange” program run by a little-known private organization with close ties to
powerful American political figures like David Rockefeller and former
Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger.
The Chicago Tribune deserves
some credit as the only American newspaper to report the couple’s pivotal role
in pointing Atta towards his eventual career as a “terrorist ringleader.”
Some... But not much. Because
the Tribune somehow fails to name either the couple or the
“international” program they ran.
It's not as if they
didn’t have enough room. The story was 1,200 words long. Just an extra ten
words: “Jack and Jill Doe from Help-A-Student International.”
It would have been ever so
helpful if they had somehow found the courage to commit journalism...You know... “Who What When Where and
Why.”
Da Vinci Code II: Return of the Albino
Had the
Tribune reporter somehow just forgotten about “Who?”
Or had something more
sinister occurred? Coded messages in the paper's crossword puzzle?
Because something doesn't
add up.
Mohamed Atta was a
lackluster student in a backwater academic environment whose grades weren’t even
good enough to get him into grad school...even in Cairo.
Yet he was welcomed into the
bosom of a Western elite institution by a couple with no name. It is a mark
of how far we have fallen as a democratic (small 'd') people that no
explanation for this curious fact has ever even been offered.
Did Mohamed Atta Know Henry Kissinger?

Moreover, the paper also
neglected to explain that having ”won” (been recruited, been given) a coveted
“scholarship” from a no-name institution (CDS International) Mohamed Atta
was, for most of his time in Hamburg, being subsidized by German and U.S.
taxpayers.
That there has been no great
rush to report this unfortunate fact
comes as no real surprise.
And while this may seem the
logical place to start 9/11’s Secret History—in Hamburg, at the beginning—there’s
one other place in the story which offers the
advantage of conforming to Aristotle’s unity of time and place.
So we’ll start our journey on the same day the story reaches its tragic
end... As the rush of events that
will soon become known as a timeless Day of Infamy gathers momentum, there is
visible a bombshell revelation so powerful that it has since been almost
completely, and quite deliberately, suppressed; one so embarrassing to
official Washington that should it ever become common knowledge it would
irrevocably change the way we think about the 9/11 attack, and the way we think
about how our Government responded to it.
In the stillness before dawn
on September 11 2001, we will catch a glimpse of the very stuff of
America’s Secret History.
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