Books Investigating 9/11

[RedSock]

I hope this thread can be used to discuss and alert others to various books published about 9/11 and the research being done into its myriad tangents.

There are not many investigative books about 9/11 yet.
The War on Freedom by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is perhaps the best known.
http://waronfreedom.mediamonitors.net/index2.html

There will be a few books published this year, including:

Daniel Hopsicker: Welcome to Terrorland -- Mohamed Atta and the 9/11 Cover-up in Florida
Due February 2004?
http://www.madcowprod.com/books.html

David Ray Griffin: "The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11"
Released January 2004, but I found no mention of it at Amazon.
Here is a review:
http://www.deceptiondollar.com/news/911BookReview.htm

Sander Hicks/Allan Duncan: "The 9/11 Whistleblower's Guide: Debunking the Official Story"
Due summer/fall 2004
http://www.drenchkiss.com/whistleblowers.html

[RedSock]

1. Griffin -- The New Pearl Harbor

The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11
By David Ray Griffin

Some blurbs:

"It will be painful, and disturbing, to turn the pages of this thoughtful and meticulously researched book. But turn we must. For we owe the truth to those who died, and nothing less."
Colleen Kelly, Co-Founder of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows

"That 9/11 has become a defining moment in our history cannot be gainsaid. But its exact significance is an exceedingly contentious question notwithstanding the seeming clarity of prevailing accounts. David Ray Griffin deconstructs those accounts with a host of unresolved puzzles strongly suggestive of some sort of culpable complicity by US officials in the event. His book presents an incontrovertible argument of the need for a genuinely full and independent investigation of that infamous day."
Douglas Sturm, Presidential Professor of Religion and Political Science, Emeritus, Bucknell University

"David Ray Griffin has done admirable and painstaking research in reviewing the mysteries surrounding the 9-11 attacks. It is the most persuasive argument I have seen for further investigation of the Bush administration's relationship to that historic and troubling event."
Howard Zinn

"This is a very important book. David Ray Griffin's carefully researched and documented study demonstrates a high level of probability that the Bush adminsitration was complicit in allowing 9/11 to happen in order to further war plans that had already been made. A must read for anyone concerned about American foreign policy under the present administration."
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Carpenter Professor of Feminist Theology, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA

"Was the U.S.'s failure to defend itself against the attacks on Sept. 11 a comedy of errors or a brilliant, if cynical, plot by highly placed government officials, or something else? We'll never know as long as the administration stonewalls efforts to get information. But such relatively reliable information as is now available is assembled in this book, so that citizens can come to more informed judgments about the nature and functioning of our government. This is a must read for all who want to get past the conspiracy of silence and mystification that surrounds these events."
John B. Cobb, Jr., Professor of Theology, Emeritus, Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University

"This book is as full of research and authoritative notes as a field full of springtime daisies. The author raises frightening questions, and the questions beg for answers. One thing we can conclude for certain. The events surrounding 9-11, both before and after, cannot be simply swept under the rug of conventional wisdom unless we allow it. This book gives us a foundation to discover the truth, one that we may not wish to hear."
Gerry Spence

"David Griffin's The New Pearl Harbor belongs on the book shelves of all those who, in any way, doubt the veracity of the accounts presented to the public by the Bush administration concerning the worst terrorist attack in America's history. The facts presented in this book are disturbing -- and they should be. Griffin's book goes a long way in answering the age-old question inherent in American political scandals: What did the President know, and when did he know it?"
Wayne Madsen, author, journalist, syndicated columnist

http://www.interlinkbooks.com/New_Pearl_Harbor.html

[medienanalyse]

2. and this one in German language

http://www.medienanalyse-international.de/fakten.html

which was my work with M. Bröckers. Translations are coming up.

and some more ...

[k-robjoe]

7. question

Broeckers wrote (http://new.globalfreepress.com/911/03/07/25/0723228.shtml)(German) that Atta at one point entered the US without having a visa when he turned up, that an official saw to it that he got a visa for eight months. I haven´t seen this mentioned anywhere else. Is it "hearsay"?

[Minstrel Boy]

3. "New Pearl Harbor" is on Amazon now.

Lists for $10.50, but says it's not yet released.

Thanks for the head's up, I wasn't aware of it.

[RedSock]

4. blog not a book

Duncan/Drench Kiss Media 9-11 Research Blog
Allan Duncan's free news clipping service of all developments on the 9/11 tragedy, the White House cover-up, and the crippled official investigation. Updated several times daily! We invite your comments.
http://www.drenchkiss.com/duncanblog/duncanblog.html

I ordered Griffin's book yesterday from the publisher. $15.

I'm looking forward to medienanalyse's English translation. I have a copy of the German version, but cannot read German. Plus the CD/DVD won't play on my USA-system. :(

[RedSock]

5. Book by David Icke

Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster
By David Icke
Paperback: 500 pages; Publisher: Bridge of Love Publications; (September 30, 2002); ISBN: 0953881024

Someone I work with had a copy of this and I thumbed through it. Although the beginning and end were not to my tastes (stuff I believe Icke covers in his other books, including some we're-ruled-by-reptiles stuff), the meat of this book is very good. A lot of it probably would not be news to most of us here, but it seems to be presented in a concise, logical order. Retails for $30, but Amazon has it for $24 and used for $20.

[RedSock]

6. Richard Clarke

Still waiting for Griffin's book. Grrrrr ....

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http://paleo.dailykos.com/story/2004/2/6/0312/87778

In late March, Richard Clarke, former NSC counterterrorism expert, is to release a book detailing events leading up to 9/11. Will there be any bombshells in the book? We'll see. But Rand Beers's closeness to Clarke, and Beers's closeness to Kerry, means everyone should keep an eye on this one:

"Well next month we have yet another book to digest -- from the inside of the Bush White House. Richard Clarke, the former NSC counterterrorism expert from Bush I, Clinton and 2 years plus of Bush II is publishing his insider book that takes no prisnors. Word is that Rove is very afraid of what Clarke has to say -- particularly because Clarke was the August 6 2001 briefer of Bush, and there is a good deal about how he got told never to raise such matters again with Bush. Book will get big play. Richard Clarke knows where all the bodies are buried.

The close collaborator with Richard Clarke -- going back to Bush I at NSC was Rand Beers -- who quit last summer in disgust, and walked down the street and volunteered his services to Kerry, where he has been ever since. Beers eventually drew Joe Wilson into the Kerry camp. Taken together this represents about 75 years of high level Bureaucratic Counterterrorism experience -- and it is super connected with every establishment going. To put it mildly, Kerry is not going into battle unarmed and with pacifist intents. If Bin Laden's been warehoused for use in October -- these are the guys who know it, and know who else knows."

[plaguepuppy]

8. Mel B(r)ooks Investigating 9/11 ??

At least we might have a chance of learning the truth - and may the Schwartz be with you!

[Bolo Boffin]

9. Bridge for sale

Also, prime Alabama farmland, located in Emelle. Please see Mr. Barnum for details.

[Dancing_Dave]

10. When will see an English translation of Andreas Von Buelow's 9/11 Book?

In many ways, longtime German parliamentarian, Minister of Research and Technology, Minister of Defense, and prosecuter of intelligence agency abuses of power Andreas Von Buelow is the most qualified critical investigator of 9/11 on the planet. When I will I be able to see an English translation of his best-selling German language study of 9/11 and the CIA?

[RedSock]

11. The New Pearl Harbor

This book is excellent. A very concise summary of what is wrong with the official version(s). And it relies heavily on Paul Thompson's Timeline. So Paul should have no problem getting a book contract!

Griffin says he was very skeptical of the critics at first but the more he read and looked at things, he saw they were right. Not a lot of new stuff in the book for most of us, probably, but I did learn a few things. However, for a mainstream person who doesn't read DU or pour over dozens of articles, this will be quite an eye-opener. (Plus I'm in the index for "An Interesting Day"! Woo-hoo!)

I also ordered Daniel Hopsicker's "Welcome to Terrorland" last week. Very curious about that one.

Anyone getting/reading Richard Clarke's new book?

[RedSock]

12. Hopsicker

Reading Hopsicker's book now -- 2 things:

1. He should fire his proofreader (if he even hired one). Horrible typos all over the place, different spellings of the same name on the same page. He has no clue how to use an apostrophe. Very sloppy.

2. The Venice flight schools are apparently hooked into a CIA/Iran-Contra/BCCI web that is positively HUGE. And Atta was right in the middle of it all. Even if half of what he's writing is true, it's mind-blowing.

Lots of stuff on Dekkers and the people he was in business with, Amanda Keller (lived with Atta for months) and tidbits from Florida aviation people.

A lot of the book was previously reported on his website, but probably not all of it. The book is like $30, which might scare off some people.

[Minstrel Boy]

13. I have to get that.

I find Hopsicker's style off-puting - sloppy and breezy - but he has the Florida connection seemingly all to himself, and as you say, the CIA/Iran-Contra/BCCI web is huge.

Griffin's book is a very readable presentation, though he leaned too heavily on Meyssan for my taste. In what is otherwise a pretty solid introduction to the case, he gives too much weight to the no-plane-hit-the-Pentagon theory. Also, I was disappointed to see so much space devoted to controlled demolition. Myself, I'm convinced it was Flight 77 (though surely not flown by Hani Hanjour), and I remain agnostic on demolition. I'm not opposed to theorizing on and researching either, but I cringed to see Griffin giving them so much attention, while ignoring other evidence entirely which support complicity. Griffin's getting hung up on the missile theory is bound to discredit, for some readers, every other worthwhile point he raises.

The best 9/11 book I've read thus far remains Ahmed's The War on Freedom, and the best resource Paul's timeline. It's to Griffin's great credit he enthusiastically points readers towards both.