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'No hijackers
for 9/11'
Repentant arms dealer reveals disgruntled
U.S. military on the verge of revolt
By John Kaminski
skylax@comcast.net
Back in May 2003, a journalist in Portugal reported on a sensational, marathon
meeting of a group of U.S. pilots that issued a report concluding that the
story told by the U.S. government about what happened on Sept. 11, 2001 was
improbable and unlikely.
Except for several notices on the Internet, that story was basically never
reported in the U.S., and largely debunked when the reporter flubbed the name
of the organizer, creating disbelief in the minds of many readers.
The record was corrected in stunning fashion Feb. 25 on Alex Jones' Prison
Planet radio program when former Pentagon arms salesman Donn de Grand-Pre,
author of three books that allege 9/11 was an inside job, set the record
straight, because he was the man who organized that conference. That 72-hour
non-stop symposium by a group of military and civilian pilots concluded the
flight crews of the four passenger airliners involved in the 9/11 tragedy had
no control over their aircraft.
de Grand Pre, a retired Army colonel, is the author of "A Window on
America," "Confessions of an Arms Peddler" and his latest,
"Barbarians Inside the Gates." His thesis in the third book "is
that the wars we have engaged in for whatever reasons since the end of World
War II have not only been unconstitutionally waged, but have caused a net loss
in political power. Each war was waged to divert our attention away from the
true enemy within, and toward a contrived enemy outside our borders."
de Grand-Pre explained that his third book actually has three parts: "OK,
I've got three books out under the title, "Barbarians Inside the
Gates." Book 1 was "The Serpent's Sting," Book 2 is "The
Viper's Venom," Book 3, which just came out is "The Rattler's
Revenge."
"And I'd like to quote from Book 2, which came out October of 2002. There
is a very important paragraph there. It says,
"The trigger for the 911 activity was the imminent and unstoppable
worldwide financial collapse which can only be prevented temporarily by a major
war, perhaps to become known as World War III. To bring it off one more time,
martial law will probably be imposed in the United States."
de Grand-Pre was the top U.S. arms dealer to the Middle East under the Ford and
Carter administrations. What he saw caused him to leave government service and
begin investigating the forces he saw warping our nation's future.
In the interview with Jones, de Grand-Pre made several stunning assertions,
among them:
* There were no hijackers on the 9/11 killer jets. And he said the chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Richard Myers) agrees with him.
In response to a caller to Alex Jones' radio show, de Grand-Pre noted:
"... the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs himself has agreed, there
were no hijackers. There were no cell phone calls. Everybody aboard that
aircraft, pilots and crew, were unconscious within 8 to 18 minutes after
take-off. And you can take it from there. I've got it covered in books 2 and 3,
what actually happened."
"These planes were being piloted by remote control, probably an AWACs
aircraft taking over that airplane or airplanes or drones, unmanned drones. And
flying them at 5 and 8 G-force that no pilot could withstand. So, in short, and
if you read books 2 and 3, you will discover how and why this came about."
* The 9/11 planes that took off full of passengers are now at the bottom of the
Atlantic Ocean. "And I'm telling you that we are knowledgeably
speculating," said de Grand-Pre in response to another caller. "Those
aircraft carrying crew and passengers went over the Atlantic and that was all
she wrote."
* Talk of a military coup - to reverse what he calls the administrative coup
d'etat that happened on 9/11 - are rife within the corridors of the Pentagon.
In his various interviews and publications, deGrand-Pre has called 9/11
"an administrative coup d'etat." He suggests the only way the neocons
can be stopped is by a military coup d'etat, and estimates 70 percent of key
military personnel are in favor of such a step. But the possibility is complicated,
he says, by the large number of key military players who have gone over to the
Council on Foreign Relations team. Some of these players, including three- and
four-star generals, however, may side with the military while pretending to be
on the side of the neocons. de Grand-Pre insists he is in personal contact with
members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The truly patriotic members of the military have had to sit there and take all
these wild schemes by corporate-controlled politicians. de Grand-Pre's
prediction? "I think those days are coming to an end. The military ain't
going to take it any longer." In the interview with Jones, de Grand-Pre
also asserted:
* It is common knowledge at the Pentagon that Israel fired nuclear weapons at
Iraq during the first Gulf War.
* A commercial aircraft did not hit the Pentagon. Most likely it was a cruise
missile or a Global Hawk.
* Flight 93, the jetliner that supposedly crashed in Pennsylvania after
courageous passengers struggled with armed hijackers, was shot down by the
North Dakota Air Guard. "I know the pilot who fired those two missiles to
take down 93," de Grand-Pre insisted, adding that the order to shoot down
the plane came from the Adjutant General of North Dakota.
* Most likely it was U.S. forces that tried to kill Deputy Defense Secretary
Paul Wolfowitz when he visited Iraq recently.
* Military tribunals will try current U.S. public officials when the military
decides to take over, de Grand-Pre predicts. "And
Cheney, I reiterate, is toast." de Grand-Pre named Cheney as the one man
who knows the most about 9/11.
In earlier interviews, de Grand-Pre has
recounted that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Richard Myers, had 500
copies of the 24-page report made and sent out, including, to the White House.
Assessing Myers' reaction, de Grand Pre said, "I'm quite sure that he
believed in it. I think that he still believes in it. You can understand the
difficulties. The civilian administration, of course, won't recognize it as
such.
"There's a definite cleavage between the military of the Pentagon and the
civilian hierarchy - and never the twain shall meet."
Jones triggered a response from de Grand Pre when he mentioned a 2002 article
in the Washington Times that said morale at the Pentagon had never been lower.
De Grand-Pre responded: "I can verify that from Col. Dick Schultz, who is
a friend of mine in the Joint Chiefs. Morale was not only low but he said some
of the troops are ready to mutiny. If it wasn't for the fact that the
government, the civilian hierarchy, has control over retirements, they would
probably be blood in the streets by now."
When
other news outlets began checking on this story angle, Jones noted that
Pentagon officials were apoplectic. "... they panicked and flew the
officers on jets to luxury vacations and had these focus groups. It even talked
about a possible mutiny. People were just totally distraught. What would make
them become distraught overnight in the Pentagon?"
de Grand-Pre's answer was chilling, and
revealed the possibility of a military coup d'etat has been simmering in the
corridors of the Pentagon for some time.
"It wasn't an overnight thing. You see, as I outline in book 1, and I
carry that on in book 2, as well as book 3, we were on the verge of a military
coup d'etat. And this was long in the planning and even after the 78 days of
bombing Kosovo, it became critical. And we were close to a coup d'etat at that
time. In my survey of the reports and the pilots who worked with that, a coup
was a possibility.
"In fact, a coup d'etat was pulled on the morning of September 11th. Only
it was an administrative or what we call a cold coup d'etat."
Jones' translation of that was "a counter-revolutionary junta."
de Grand-Pre concurred, and added: "And as we delved into that, we found
that the culprits, including Rumsfeld, were part of a neocon group that had
been planning this thing for literally years prior to September 11th."
In a previous interview that appeared on Michael Rivero's What Really Happened
website, de Grand-Pre had already outlined his conclusions about 9-11.
"The 9-11 activity and horrific destruction of US property and lives was
intentionally meant to trigger a psychological and patriotic
reaction on the part of the US citizens, which is paving the way for
"combined UN activity" (using the fig leaf of NATO) for striking key
targets in both the Middle East/ South Asia and the Balkans. The goal continues
to be ultimate destruction of all national sovereignty
and establishment of a global government.
"The trigger for the 9-11 activity was the imminent and unstoppable
world-wide financial collapse, which can only be prevented
(temporarily) by a major war, perhaps to become known as WW 111. To bring it
off (one more time), martial law will probably be
imposed in the United States.
de Grand-Pre had also sounded the same themes on Jackie Patru's Radio Sweet
Liberty Webcast.
"The so-called terrorist attack was in fact a superbly executed military
operation against the United States, requiring the utmost
professional military skill in command, communications and control. It was
flawless in timing, in the choice of selected aircraft to be
used as guided missiles, and in the coordinated delivery of those missiles to
their pre-selected targets.
As a tactical military exercise against two
significant targets (world financial center and the citadel of world strategic
military
planning), the attack, from a psychological impact on the American public,
equalled the Japanese "surprise" attack on Pearl Harbor
7 Dec 1941.
But the overriding question of that original group of pilots was: If we are at
war, who is the enemy?
The group determined that the enemy is within the gates, that he has
infiltrated into the highest policy-making positions at the
federal level, and has absolute control, not only of the purse strings, but of
the troop buildup and deployment of our military forces,
including active, reserve and National Guard units.
Read the complete interview of Donn de
Grand-Pre with Alex Jones at http://www.warfolly.com/blockbustergrandpre.htm
See also a recent interview with former German
defense minister Andreas von Buelow, who sounded many of the themes de
Grand-Pre discussed. See http://www.prisonplanet.com/021104vonbuelow.html
de Grand-Pre's books are not yet available on the web, but more information can
be obtained from de Grand-Pre Publishing Ltd. at 540-547-2996.
John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy Report," a
collection of his Internet essays published by Dandelion Books and featured on
hundreds of websites around the world. For more information on how to get this
book or to financially support his work, go to http://www.johnkaminski.com/.
Or, to read some more of his recent essays for free, go to http://www.rudemacedon.ca/kaminski/kam-index.html
Check also:
THE ENEMY IS INSIDE THE GATES (August 7, 2003)
http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/8-10-03/discussion.cgi.64.html