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5. ConclusionAs shown above, the US authorities have failed to prove that the 19 individuals accused of the mass
murder of 9/11 had boarded the aircraft, which they allegedly used to commit the crime. No
authenticated, original, passenger lists, bearing their names, have been released; no one is known to
have seen them board the aircraft; no video recordings documented their boarding; no boarding pass
stub is known to exist; and there is no actual proof that the alleged hijackers actually died at the
known crash sites, because their bodily remains were not positively identified (except for one
dubious case) and no chain-of-custody report accompanied these remains.
In the months following 9/11, reports appeared in mainstream media that at least five of the alleged
hijackers were actually living in various Arab countries.90 These reports led to speculation that the
86 ‘Remains of 9/11 hijackers identified’, BBC, 28 February 2003
87 Paul D. Colford, 9/11 parts split by good and evil, NY Daily News, 12 October 2005
88 Eve Conant, Nineteen hijackers died on 9/11. What should be done with what's left of them?
Newsweek, January 12, 2009
89 Andrew Pollack, DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show, The New York Times, 18 August 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/20(...)rss&pagewanted=print90 A collection of articles from mainstream media on the “living hijackers” is posted on
http://www.aldeilis.net/english/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=10&id=97&Itemid=107
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identities of some of the hijackers were in doubt. Typical of such reports is an Associated Press
dispatch of 3 November 2001, which states: “The FBI released the names and photos of the
hijackers in late September. The names were those listed on the planes’ passenger manifests and
investigators were certain those were the names the hijackers used when they entered the United
States. But questions remained about whether they were the hijackers’ true identities. The FBI has
not disclosed which names were in doubt and [FBI Director] Mueller provided no new information
on the hijackers’ identities beyond his statement to reporters.” The 9/11 Commission did neither
address at all these doubts nor the reports about the “living hijackers”.
On September 14, 2001, the FBI released the names of the 19 individuals “who have been
identified as hijackers aboard the four airliners that crashed on September 11, 2001”.91 On
September 27, 2001, the FBI released photographs of these 19 individuals. Withdrawing from its
unqualified statement of September 14, the new press release said these were photographs the FBI
merely “believed to be the hijackers of the four airliners”.92 Yet for most names no birth date,
birthplace or specific residence is given despite the apparent availability of such data on visa
application forms and other documentation possessed by the FBI. The FBI webpage provides the
following caveat: “It should be noted that attempts to confirm the true identities of these individuals
are still under way.” This statement, issued on September 27, 2001, is still valid today, anno 2008,
because the webpage has not been updated since it was initially posted and remains, therefore, the
US government’s official position that their identities are in doubt. Accordingly, a significant
difference exists between the official position of the US government, as reflected by the website of
the FBI, regarding the identities of the alleged perpetrators of the crime committed on 9/11 and the
popularized version parroted by politicians and the media about the guilt of 19 Muslims for the
mass murder of 9/11. The 9/11 Commission has studiously avoided the question of the alleged
hijackers’ identities. It must be added, however, that the aforementioned statement is deliberately
deceptive, because there is no hard evidence that any person actually hijacked the airliners and
crashed them on the known sites.
Not everyone is convinced that the above account disposes of the question whether or not Muslim
fanatics hijacked planes on 9/11. Some people claim that callers from the aircraft actually described
the hijackers as Arabs and even mentioned their seat numbers. Such electronically transmitted
evidence would have strengthened the official allegations if it had been supported by solid primary
evidence, namely that these “hijackers” had actually boarded these aircraft and died at the known
crash sites. Absent this primary evidence such secondary evidence cannot be considered as the
proof for the presence of these “hijackers” on the aircraft. Additionally, numerous questions remain
unanswered regarding the location from which the phone calls were made and their authenticity.93
Another recurring counter-argument is that a man claiming to be the notorious terrorist Khaled
Sheikh Mohammed, reportedly detained at the Guantanámo base, had confessed to be the
mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. Here again, in the absence of primary evidence proving that the 19
“hijackers” actually boarded the aircraft which they hijacked and crashed, such claims by someone
whose identity is shrounded in mystery and who was no eyewitness to the events of 9/11 cannot
supplant primary evidence.
More than seven years have elapsed since the events of 9/11. The U.S. government had in those
years sufficient time to prove the identities of the persons who allegedly boarded and crashed
airplanes on 9/11, if any. If the official account on 9/11 were true, the U.S. government, more than
anyone else, would have trumpeted this evidence in order to prove to the world, once and for all,
91
http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/091401hj.htm (emphasis added)
92
http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/092701hjpic.htm (emphasis added)
93 David Ray Griffin, Reported Cell Phone Calls from the 9/11 Planes, Global Research, September 7, 2008, at
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10103; Rowland Morgan, The Impossible Phone Calls
of 9/11, Global Outlook, Issue #13 (2009), p.136-140.
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who committed the crime. No one would have benefitted more from publicizing such evidence than
the U.S. government.
While it is theoretically possible that the U.S. government possesses the evidence that would prove
its accusations against the 19 named “hijackers”, such possibility becomes less and less plausible as
time passes. The total absence of evidence proving the guilt of Muslims for the crime of 9/11 gives
rise to the following observations:
(a) Due to the lack of evidence regarding the guilt of the 19 named Muslims for the crime of 9/11,
it is unconscionable to claim that Muslims (or al Qaeda) committed this crime. Any such
accusations or insinuations amount to slander and possibly racial incitement.
(b) In view of harmful policies pursued by the U.S. government on the base of allegedly secret
evidence, it is politically irresponsible to accord the US Government the benefit of the doubt by
presuming the existence, albeit hidden, of incriminating evidence against Muslims for the
crime of 9/11.
(c) The lack of evidence regarding the boarding of the four airliners that reportedly crashed on
9/11 and the failure of the U.S. government to formally prove its case, justify suspicion about
its complicity in the crime of 9/11 and its cover-up.
The crime of 9/11 has served to justify two wars of aggression by the United States, an indefinite
and global “war on terror”, the imposition of the PATRIOT Act, spying of the public, and serious
violations of international law. Many governments have colluded in these violations and endorsed
U.S. lies regarding the events of 9/11. The continuous reliance on the official account regarding
9/11 therefore threatens international peace and security. The above account should therefore
prompt all those who are concerned by human rights violations and the threat to international peace
and security, to join in demanding the full truth on the events of 9/11.
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