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The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé

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In THE NEW PEARL HARBOR REVISITED, David Ray Griffin provides a brilliant and much-needed companion to his path-breaking and movement-building book on 9/11, The New Pearl Harbor (NPH; 2004). Now, on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of those horrific events, Griffin surveys in detail all the main lines of evidence against the official account of 9/11 to have emerged during the last four years. THE NEW PEARL HARBOR REVISITED (NPHR) has been designed as volume 2 of a two-volume set with NPH as volume 1; together they provide a thorough and up-to-date case against the official conspiracy theory (they can be bought separately, of course).

Griffin has already published four other books that provide in-depth analysis of most of the evidence to have emerged since 2004. NPHR's main purpose is to provide an easily accessible survey of all of the new evidence, so that it is now possible for a beginner to the subject (including journalists and members of Congress) to master its enormous complexity simply by reading two books. NPHR is structured identically to NPH; each chapter in NPHR comments and builds on the corresponding chapter in NPH. Much of the content is entirely new; there are many facts and analyses in NPHR which Griffin presents for the first time, and which literally make the book an up-to-the-minute statement of the case.

In the Preface, Griffin explains why he undertook to "update" The New Pearl Harbor. In the Introduction he outlines the continued failure of the press to investigate any of the questions raised against the official account, and the lame attempts, especially by the main "progressive" or "left" appendages of the press, to portray such questioning as lunacy. He provides a brief overview of the history of "false-flag" operations, including the Pentagon's Operation Northwoods, halted by President Kennedy. Griffin then argues that the term "conspiracy theory" is used dishonestly to prevent investigation of the claims of critics (and never to describe the government's theory about 19 Arab hijackers controlled from a cave in Afghanistan).

The very substantial first chapter tackles two major issues, the timing of events related to flights AA 11 and UA 175 and the collapses of the WTC buildings. Griffin shows that the 9/11 Commission's new timeline is contradicted by much solid evidence and is inherently unbelievable. The Commission claims that the military was not notified by the FAA of the flight emergency on flight UA 175 until much later than the time the military itself had claimed during the years between 9/11 and the publication of the Commission's Report in 2004. The Commission based its new claim on the "NORAD Tapes," a set of purportedly genuine tapes of telephone communications between the FAA and NORAD on the morning of 9/11. But these tapes were never produced until 2004, after the glaring holes in the Pentagon's defense against the charge of a standdown had become evident, and are probable fakes, which Griffin shows would have been easy to produce. The strongest indication that they are indeed fakes is that they contradict mountains of highly diverse independent lines of evidence.

Then he treats the new official story about how the Twin Towers collapsed, as presented in the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Report of 2005. He thoroughly deconstructs NIST's five "crucial claims": (i) that designers of the buildings had not anticipated the possibility of airliner impacts; (ii) that many core and peripheral columns were severed by the plane impacts, and that fire-proofing material was stripped off many other core columns; (iii) that the now-unprotected core columns were then weakened by fire to the point of buckling; (iv) that the floors then sagged and pulled the perimeter columns inward; and (v) that the downward momentum of the upper portions of the buildings was so great that they collapsed "essentially in free fall," i.e. that there was virtually no resistance at all to the fall through the undamaged lower portions of the buildings. For each of these claims Griffin is easily able to show that NIST in fact provides no supporting evidence for them!

He then proceeds to demonstrate that NIST ignored vast amounts of relevant evidence for controlled demolition of the buildings: explosions witnessed by first responders; horizontal ejections of huge sections of steel perimeter columns; melting of steel, indicating temperatures far higher than can be reached by jet-fuel and office-materials fires; and residues indicating explosives were used, including iron and aluminum microspheres in dust from the WTC (a typical product of thermite reactions) and "red chips" in the dust with thermite's chemical signature.

Griffin concludes Chapter 1 with a survey of the strong evidence for controlled demolition of WTC 7, the 47-story skyscraper that was not struck by a plane, had only minor fires inside, and yet collapsed into its footprint late in the afternoon at free-fall speed (in under six seconds). Although tasked with an explanation, NIST had still not provided one when Griffin's book went to press. Griffin lays out in detail the many explanatory challenges still ahead for the agency, including the vertical, symmetrical collapse; the pool of melted steel underneath the debris pile for weeks afterwards; the free-fall speed of collapse; the similarity of the collapse to classic controlled demolition; the testimony by NYC officials Barry Jennings and Michael Hess reporting explosions inside hours before the building collapsed; the foreknowledge, hours before, that the building was going to fall; the array of evidence that the building was intended to fall in the morning at about the same time as the Towers; the media's premature announcement of its collapse; and Larry Silverstein's evident admission that the building was demolished. (Now that NIST's report on WTC 7 has finally appeared, one can see that it fulfilled Griffin's expectation that it would simply ignore all the evidence that is inconsistent with its fire theory of the collapse.)

In Chapter 2, Griffin takes up the many developments since 2004 with respect to Flight 77 and the events that occurred at the Pentagon. He shows that Solicitor General Ted Olson's claim to have received phone calls from his wife Barbara on Flight 77 cannot be true: it is self-contradictory (sometimes he claimed she called on a cell phone, and at other times on a seat-back phone), and it has even been abandoned by the FBI in its summary evidence of all phone calls from all the flights submitted at the Zacarias Moussaoui trial in 2006, which said that no connected call was made by her. These claimed calls from Barbara Olson were the principal "evidence" put forward to substantiate the assertion that the Flight 77 was still in the air and headed toward Washington D.C., and that it was hijacked by Arab Muslims.

Griffin then presents a detailed analysis of a broad array of physical evidence indicating that the Pentagon was not struck by a Boeing 757: photos of the damage to the outside of the building; lack of suitable debris; lack of video evidence; lack of time-change parts from the planes; no flight data recorder with the correct serial number has ever been produced; lack of a seismic signal of such an impact; the inexplicable C-Ring hole inside the Pentagon; the contradictory eye-witness evidence; the implausibility of terrorists striking the West Wing, farthest away from the offices of the top brass; and the known inability of Hani Hanjour to fly an airliner with the skill required by the claimed 330-degree downward spiral at high speed.

Again Griffin shows that the 9/11 Commission has distorted and suppressed evidence for the evident standdown of the air defense system, principally by creating a new timeline of events (based again on the dubious "NORAD Tapes") of Flight 77 and thereby claiming the FAA did not notify the Pentagon of the flight emergency in time to intercept the plane. This claim falls for the same reason it does in the cases of flights 11 and 175: it contradicts reams of evidence from multiple independent sources, and is supported only by the Pentagon's and the Commission's claim that the tapes are genuine. In addition Griffin shows that the Commission's claims that no interceptor aircraft were available at Andrews Air Base, and that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers were unavailable to coordinate a defensive response, are false.

Griffin also surveys witness accounts of bombs inside the Pentagon, considers the question why there was no evacuation of the building (even under the Commission's claimed timeline there was ample time for evacuation), asks why Wedges 1 and 2 might have been selected by the real perpetrators, shows that the Commission suppressed the account of Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta that is most plausibly interpreted as indicating that a standdown order had been given by Vice President Dick Cheney to prevent interception of a craft approaching the Pentagon, and several other important lines of evidence.

The many mysteries of Flight 93 over Pennsylvania are the subject of Chapter 3. Griffin's analysis of the evidence developed since the publication of NPH in 2004 has led to a fundamental shift in his perspective on Flight 93. He no longer assumes, as he did at the time of the earlier book, that phone calls from the plane provide any evidence for what occurred onboard. This is because it is now clear that cell phone calls from planes at high altitude were technologically impossible on 9/11. And yet, family members and others evidently received cell phone calls that morning from people on the flight. As there is no basis to imagine all the recipients are lying, they must have been deceived. Griffin shows that voice morphing technology existed at the time, as well as freely-available devices to fake caller identification numbers, so that it was possible to place calls to family members which would appear to be genuine cell phone calls, as they reported to the press.

Perhaps in response to the growing awareness of these technological facts, in 2006 the FBI abandoned its earlier claims that a large number of cell phone calls were placed from UA 93. The agency reduced the number to just two, purportedly from below 5000 feet in elevation, and claimed that the other calls were all from seat-back phones. This late reversal, however, does not explain away the detailed claims by call recipients to have received cell phone calls. Those calls had to have been faked, and if they were, then the purported seat-back calls had to have been faked too.

Griffin also surveys new evidence regarding the alleged crash site, principally the lack of substantial debris of any kind at the site itself, while debris rained down over a wide area, several miles in diameter, including clothing, books, papers, and human remains. He destroys the 9/11 Commission's claim, based again on the spurious "NORAD Tapes," that the military was not notified of the emergency on Flight 93 in time to have responded, quoting military personnel who claimed they were notified and ready. He shows that the Commission's claim that there was no time for Cheney to issue a shootdown order is also false. He concludes that the case for Flight 93 having been shot down by the US military is quite strong, and that the official account is false in virtually every respect.

In the very short chapters 4 and 5 Griffin provides brief additional arguments relating to President Bush's strange behavior in the classroom in Florida on the morning of 9/11, and the many indications that the US government had long envisioned the possibility of such attacks and had trained for them (despite post-9/11 denials). In addition he shows the 9/11 Commission's dismissal of the possibility of insider trading in the "put options" on airlines and other stocks the week before 9/11 to be based on circular reasoning and therefore unreliable.

In Chapter 6 Griffin discusses developments in the evidence of hidden connections between the Bush, bin Laden and Saudi royal families. He then explores new revelations concerning US government obstruction of investigations into the activities of al-Qaeda prior to 9/11, including blocking FBI investigations in Phoenix, Minneapolis and Chicago. And he treats in detail the suppression of the testimony of Sibel Edmonds regarding this blocking of investigations and its significant connection to the Valerie Plame Wilson case and other indications of illegal trafficking in nuclear weapons technologies. He then presents much new evidence regarding the true identities and characteristics of the "hijackers," and examines the question whether there is in fact any solid evidence for the existence of Arab Muslim hijackers. Not surprisingly, it all dissipates into thin air when closely examined, leading Griffin to conclude, "it now appears that there is no good evidence for hijackers at all." He then reviews in detail the information derived from Operation Able Danger, concluding that it, along with other evidence, suggests "reason to suspect that the `hijackers' were really paid assets."

Griffin surveys evidence for the motives that the highest levels of the US government would have had for orchestrating the 9/11 attacks in Chapter 7. He examines the pre-9/11 planning to attack Afghanistan (to control oil and natural gas flows from Central Asia and to secure new military bases in the region), and comparable planning to attack Iraq (to seize Iraqi oil, control its export, and establish military bases in another key geostrategic area). He then shows that the 9/11 Commission suppressed all mention of such motives, as well as of the discourse used by key Bush administration personnel, while members of PNAC (The Project for the New American Century) before his election (such as the idea of "a New Pearl Harbor") and on the day itself and in its immediate aftermath (such as "opportunity"). Griffin shows that the Commission never mentioned Operation Northwoods or well-known false-flag operations that the US instigated such as Operation Gladio, and never examined the possibility that the attacks were orchestrated by the Bush-Cheney administration as a pretext to launch its pre-established agenda.

Chapter 8 illustrates, Griffin says, "especially clearly the extent to which the production of The 9/11 Commission Report was a cover-up operation." He surveys the lack of hard evidence that Osama bin Laden was really involved in the attacks; the admitted failure by the Commission to verify the veracity of the information obtained by torture from Khalid Sheik Mohammed (the principal source for the "facts" presented by the Commission regarding the planning of the attacks by al-Qaeda); the criminal travesty of justice at the Military Commissions trials at Guantanamo; the expert opinion of military and intelligence professionals from all over the world who strongly dispute that Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda had the capability to orchestrate the attacks; and the concealment by the Commission of the history of secret payments to al-Qaeda by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

Chapter 9 presents a succinct summary of the main evidence of complicity by the Bush-Cheney administration in the 9/11 attacks. Griffin shows that the Commission never asked the most fundamental question about the crime, "who benefits?" It simply asserted that al-Qaeda had a motive, while ignoring massive evidence that top-level members of the US government had numerous powerful motivations. Griffin then lists 32 new items of evidence for official complicity to add to the list of 24 he provided in NPH.

In the final chapter, Griffin makes an overpowering case for a new investigation into the crimes of 9/11, because the 9/11 Commission, nominally under the control of Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, was in reality controlled by a White House insider, Philip Zelikow, and utterly failed to fulfill its official mandate "to provide the fullest possible account" of the attacks. Griffin presents a devastating exposé of Zelikow's methodical construction of a cover-up to protect his superiors in the Bush administration. A special treat is a very long footnote providing a withering critique of Philip Shenon's book on the 9/11 Commission.

This powerful chapter is a fitting conclusion to Griffin's critique of the 9/11 Commission Report, begun in 2004 immediately after the publication of NPH, and developed and deepened year by year since. Thanks substantially to his own extraordinary personal dedication, Griffin is able to conclude that, "The 9/11 truth movement's exposé of the cover-up of the truth about what happened on 9/11 is now complete -- in the sense that this exposé has shown, to those who have paid attention, virtually every dimension of the official account of 9/11 to be false beyond a reasonable doubt."

THE NEW PEARL HARBOR REVISITED by David Ray Griffin, in tandem with its famous predecessor, is the most effective presentation of this now-total exposé. It's time now to put the perpetrators away in perpetuity.

As soon as I finished reading the book I called my cousin up at college and I apologized to her. She'd been trying to tell the entire family about the 911 Truth and we all have called her crazy for years. I assumed because she was young that she was just wrong. I had watched the videos she'd given to me but part of me was refusing to accept the facts. David Ray Griffin's book has shed pure light on the matter and I cannot live in denial any longer. We have some real problems with a criminal government and the only ones to blame are the likes of people like me and others who have turned our backs on Truth. I don't know how we're going to fix it but I do know for sure that I will not be living a lie any longer. I've purchased five books and plan on giving them to family and freinds. Thank you David Ray Griffin for writing such a powerful and enlightening book. 5 STARS!

D.R. Griffin's second book on the 9/11 massacre is a terribly skilled comment on his first version, with some rectifications and some meticulous unraveling of controversial statements, timings and physical processes.
His overall picture stands more firmly than ever `that every dimension of the official account is false beyond reasonable doubt.' Hereafter, a few crucial points:

- the free vertical fall of the 3 WTC towers (of which one was not hit by a plane) makes a rather cynical joke of the NIST report. Controlled demolition is the only plausible explanation.
- the official version of the fact that the airplanes could not be scrambled doesn't stand a close examination of all the timings involved. A stand down order explains everything.
- the Pentagon could not have been hit by a plane, unless all its debris should have evaporated after the impact. A missile attack is more plausible.
- the identity of the hijackers, if any, is extremely obscure. For D.R. Griffin, much of the evidence that there were hijackers on the planes dissipates upon close examination. The planes could have been flown by remote control. See M.H. Gaffey's book `The 9/11 Mystery Plane and the Vanishing of America'.
- the true identity of Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda is anything but clear.
- cell phone calls could not be made from inside the airplanes.
- a close examination of the official 9/11 Commission Report shows that all controversial points were omitted or the subject of biased interpretations.

It all insinuates that all the deadly attacks were an inside job.
But why? They served as an excuse to wage war. D.R. Griffin: 'Members of the Bush-Cheney administration planned prior to 9/11 invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, after which they hoped to attack five other countries. The commission shielded its readers from evidence that this administration include people with an even more murderous ideology.'

In the meantime, the public media continue to be completely gagged. A rather menacing silence is sometimes overshadowing the TV and radio studios and stations.

D.R. Griffin incriminates nobody. All he wants is a new and independent investigation to discover the truth.

This book with its perfect index and bibliography is a must read for all those interested in the 9/11 massacre and for all those who want to understand the world we live in.

First, let me say that I'm not ready to declare with 100% certainty that 9-11 was an "inside job." I still have a hard time wrapping my puny little brain around the idea that this government, or any government, could pull off such a massive and devastating event. However, I AM convinced that the "official version" of this story is so full of holes and lies that a new, independent investigation is desperately needed.

And that is the reason I'm writing this review and giving Dr. Griffin 5 stars for his exhaustive research.

What is most frustrating to me about any 9-11 debate is the fact that everyone who refutes or simply laughs off the possibility that 9-11 could've been an inside job does so by shouting, "Where's your proof! You haven't proven anything! You're all just a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists!"

Which brings me to the point of this review. The 9-11 truth movement doesn't have to prove a damn thing. Think of this as a criminal court case. The state (government in this case) has the burden of proof. The truth movement, and Dr. Griffin in particular, simply needs to sit back and shoot holes in the state's case, producing "reasonable doubt." Which I feel they have done and then some.

To say that 9-11 was quite possibly an inside job does not mean that you have a complete and impenetrable timeline of events, nor does it mean that you have the "smoking gun." It simply means that you've studied the state's case and, with mountains of evidence to back you, you've concluded that their story cannot be true.

And I believe Dr. Griffin, and many, many others, have accomplished this and beyond. They're simply saying, "Hey, your evidence doesn't add up, something stinks here." And they've forwarded their own theory of what possibly happened.

It's called having an open mind. The people who say 9-11 was an inside job don't have a definitive, air-tight case. But what they do have are truck loads of evidence that contradicts the official story and they're just saying, "Look, we've got a major problem here!"

We need a new, impartial, non-political investigation into the events of September 11, 2001. Why is that so hard to understand?

The 9-11 Truth Movement just wants what their name says: the friggin' truth. And it's totally clear to me that the 9-11 Commission Report ain't the truth. It's a greatest hits collection hand-picked by the Bush Administration. Maybe when they're finally out of office we can get a real investigation going. Although I'm not too optimistic.

So kudos to you, Dr. Griffin. Your evidence is compelling and frightening. You're making people think. And if you, and your many collegues, are right, God help us all.

If you think that saying 9/11 is an inside job is plain crazy please read on, I'm not trying to preach to the choir.

Bush would did not want to conduct an investigation, as it would detract from the War on Terror. The jersey girls through a media campaign finally forced him to, he first appointed notorious insider Kissinger, until he had to resign because he refused to reveal his client list. Christopher Hitchens (no 9/11 truther he) has said that the appointment of Kissinger is tantamout to an attempt at a cover-up.

All that many people in the 9/11 truth movement want is a better investigation. They have not (in most cases) posited an exact alternative scenario, but to believe the government's story one has to believe the following:

two planes crashed into two steel framed buildings and bought down three, the 3rd WTC7 would be the tallest building in most cities, it just happened to be only half the height of the mammoth WTC 1 and 2. WTC7 is not mentioned even once in the 9/11 commission report

The site was not treated like a crime scene for architects and engineers and law enforcement officers to conduct a truly thorough going investigation in how these towers could have shredded themselves from top to bottom in 10 to 15 seconds. This is valuable information that would have been
a) necessary for future safety protocols
b) is mandatory by law in any case

The very fabric of the three buildings that was needed to do a deep and forensic analysis was either sent to landfill or in the case of the Steel nearly all the beams were sold to the Far East as scrap. This is beyond belief in itself, how could the world's single most important crime scene be dismantled before it had been thoroughly investigated. When NIST did their investigations, they had to overwhelmingly rely on computer models.

Firefighter tapes were many said they had heard explosions were withheld for years until they were forcibly released to the New York times under the FOA. Why withold them in the first place? What is the national security implication. We know the buildings were attacked so what is there to hide?

There were many wargames and terror drills going on on the morning of 9/11 they are classified, but this is a highly noteworthy coincidence. What has come out about them, makes them sound mighty suspicions. FEMA arrived in NY on the night 10th of Sept to conduct a bio-terror drill the next morning. The wargames involved hijack scenarios and mightily confused the FAA who were dealing with wargames and real planes without being able to know which were which.

There is very little sign of an airplane at the crash site of the Pentagon. Whether there was or was not a plane is extremely hard to prove from just photographs or eye-witnesses one way or another, but if the govt had nothing whatsoever to hide, why not release the 80 plus CCTV cameras whose films they confiscated, instead they treated us to 5 frames that show no plane but a huge explosion. The govt itself says "a plane flew into the building" so there can be no national security implication in showing it doing so.

Even Keane and Hamilton argue that they were not allowed to speak to KSM (khalid sheik mohammed) supposed mastermind of the 9/11 (and plenty of other plots). he was waterboarded severely which the CIA admit so it's impossible to tell if he is lying or not. Now if he was the mastermind wouldn't the Bush administration have
a) given their own congress appointed body the right to question him
b) given him a trial in New York to show that the US is above international barbarism and that they conduct fair trials even of evil terrorists? Why all the illegal behaviour?
why after nearly 8 years of the crime of the century, do we have the laughable spectacle of the imprisoning of Bin Laden's driver and no genuine legal process or closure on the supposed worst evil masterminds to ever attack the US? it doesn't make sense, how can any right thinking person accept this kangaroo process for such an important crime.

The shanksville plane debris is scattered over a large area indicating it might have been shot down.

why do all the bin ladens in videos after 9/11 not look like Bin Laden. If he is the avowed enemy of the US and has survived the attack on Afghanistan, wouldn't he do everything in his power to show himself in glorious close-up and technicolour, why is he either too fat, or weirdly unlike himself with a dyed beard and how come Al zawahiri the no 2 is always shown in crystal clarity. who is filming the fake bin ladin? if it's al qaeda, can't we see through it, if it's not al qaeda, can't we see through it?


The 9/11 terrorist attack enabled two wars, for which there was plenty of evidence that the neocons were hell bent on creating anyway. The official narrative is that 9/11 'gave them the opportunity'. 9/11 happened with just enough time for the Bush administration to have their war in Iraq and call the 2004 election after a swift victory, since it was obvious that Saddam's army would be useless against the terrifying WMD that the US deploys in combat.

Granted to you dear skeptic that for to believe that it is an inside job requires an enormous leap of credulity, how could they get away with it, why do something so murderous? how could they keep lying for years and years and not slip up!
Ok,

however if you tear yourself away from the non-investigation by the media of anything other than the official narrative and look in detail as the magnificent David Ray Griffin asks us all to do with 'at least a 30% open mind' you will surprise yourself

lest you think that you will join the crackpot crazies who believe in alien abduction and that we didn't go to the moon or that the world's leaders are lizards underneath their human like appearence, ask yourself this

why are there 1000s of eminent americans signing on to patriotsquestion911.com from the following walks of life?
academe
science
architects and engineers
military and intelligence
artists

why would they put their name risking potential ridicule or blackmail if this is all just an adolcescent fantasy. Ok, if they're all deluded, let's prove them so, let's have a proper investigation with subpeana power and let's have a wide-ranging debate between the truthers and the official line people, and let's televise it, it would have an enormous global audience and the official line people are so sure of their case they will demolish the truthers, no?

David Ray Griffin is a searingly intelligent and a graceful thorough writer of very clear prose. He makes a truly unignorable case against the official story. Even if he is wrong on some counts (as I'm sure he is likely to be) the totally undeniable truth is that immediately after the tragedy the media and public and indeed the whole world took the tragedy at face value, believed the government and after that, nobody was ever allowed to question even details (let alone whole swathes) of the official story without either being made to feel like an idiot, a nutcase or a traitor.

This is just plain bad thinking, particularly when you know that the people who denounce any questioning are the on the 'logical' same side as George W Bush, a proven liar and warmonger.
If you know what you saw and you saw planes and you saw the footage of the hijakers at the airport, and you saw the buildings falling down, does that mean that you know everything there is to know? Is there only once possible way to describe how what you saw came to pass?

have some courage and look at the alternative. If you have at least looked and decided it's not for you, I salute you for we can't ask for more than for someone to have an open mind. We can't require that other people agree with us. But please look at this alternative narrative, it is deeply sincere in most cases and it explains the official story's outcomes better than the official story ever comes close to.
Thank you for reading this.

David Ray Griffin exceed expectations again with his new book. It revisits his first book on the subject of 9/11 and shows how the case against the 'official' story has gotten stronger. This is the final nail in the official stories' coffin. There is no doubt now that the events of 9/11/2001 were an inside job, planned and perpetrated by treasonous people inside our own government. This is one of the most important books of our lifetime, since it exposes the biggest lie and fraud against the American people. David Ray Griffin is a true American Patriot and deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his work. Keep it up!

Without a doubt... a concise, rational, updated examination of the unanswered questions about 9/11/01. Dr. Griffin is a reliable and conscientious source of information about how Americans are being given a fictitious story, and how the story has manipulated them to accept warfare in exchange for their own welfare. Will people recognize it for what it is?

"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting." -- Buddha

At some point the body politic of the Western world will realize that both oil and war over oil are not only unnecessary, but are absolutely detrimental to our continued survival as a species.

This realization will grow in direct proportion to the number of people who come to understand the truth which underlies the current occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.

This truth, in turn, will only be accepted through a definitive, irrefutable analysis of the evidence underlying the events of September 11, 2001, which triggered the war on terror and the resulting invasions of the oil-rich Middle East.

The definitive analysis is now at hand. Incorporating seven years of carefully assembled information, Dr. David Ray Griffin's "The New Pearl Harbor Revisited" (NPHR) provides the first encyclopedic guide to the evidence surrounding the September 11th attacks.

Its format is a chapter-by-chapter updating of his 2004 "The New Pearl Harbor" (NPH), generally regarded as the most thorough and objective introduction to 9/11. The new book, however, blends the major developments reported in Griffin's five intervening books with recent technical objections to the official story contributed by a host of new researchers, including architects, engineers, pilots, and military officials.

NPHR already bears the attributes of a classic work:

1. Attention to Detail: The extraordinary image of Muslim-hijacked airliners hurtling into iconic US targets has been indelibly imprinted upon the public mind---yet it breaks down when confronted by this vast array of carefully researched and scrutinized details. Griffin has amassed hundreds of eyewitness statements and official reports which directly challenge our interpretation of the attacks, and the collective illusion they have spawned.

Griffin charts a course through the miraculously appearing hijacker passports and red bandanas; the spliced undated airport security videos; the hopelessly inept Muslim pilots performing ace flying maneuvers; the advance warnings of air attacks using hijacked planes; the molten steel running under the towers for weeks after the attacks; the inexplicable behaviors of Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld on the morning of 9/11; the failure of FAA and NORAD to intercept the flights; the failure of all eight pilots to squawk the hijack code; and the massive explosions in the lobbies and sub-basements of the towers before their collapses---to name but a few.

It all points to internal complicity, manufactured evidence, and a planned cover-up of something far more ominous than a group of devout young Muslim fanatics, who according to press reports, frequented bars and prostitutes.

For those who believe that such conspiracies cannot be pulled off without detection, Griffin provides ample evidence of false flag operations which have occurred throughout history.

2. Documentation: It is not generally understood that what is documented and known about 9/11 has grown enormously over the past four years. As a librarian I am truly staggered by the amount of new information which has come to light through such sources as the oral histories of the Fire Department of New York; the prosecution files from the Moussaoui trial; the emergence of early video footage mounted from home collections on Youtube and Google Video; the release of government files and reports through FOIA requests; the archiving of early newspaper interviews on dozens of websites displaying out-of-print press articles; the various and conflicting flight manifests which have surfaced from the four flights; the seismic reports which reflect the time and intensity of the crashes; the press revelations showing torture was used by the CIA to extract evidence from al Qaeda operatives; and new historical accounts such as New York Times reporter Philip Shenon's 2008 "The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation."

Meanwhile, the government and media have consistently sought to dispel this body of emerging "conspiracy" evidence. Griffin devotes two full chapters to White House interference and manipulation of the 9/11 Commission, and the resulting lies and deficiencies in its 2004 Report. Widespread criticism of the Report (most prominent of which was Griffin's book "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions") led to tweaking of the official account through inconclusive federal documents from NIST, semi-official articles in the popular press (Popular Mechanics and Vanity Fair), and TV dramatizations.

With unfailing vigilance, Professor Griffin, in both NPHR and his earlier books, has methodically kept pace with the subtly shifting sands of the official story, always maintaining the upper hand through his unique blend of knowledge, logic, and accountability.

3. Comprehensiveness: When NPH was written in 2003-04, the 9/11 Commission Report had not yet been published, and there was only a handful of serious researchers looking into 9/11. Now, hundreds of architects, engineers, pilots, retired FBI, CIA, military and government officials are providing expert testimony regarding unexplained phenomena such as the pulverized concrete dust from the "gravitational" building collapses, the E-4B mystery plane flying above the White House while the Pentagon was hit, Project Able Danger, the performance of cell phones at high altitude, and a host of other technical issues which challenge the official account.

Public knowledge of this expert online information was demonstrated in 2006, when two authoritative opinion polls revealed that about 40% of the American people doubt the official story about 9/11. In the minds of nearly half the US population, therefore, 9/11 and the war on terror (which prompted the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the deaths of 1.2 million Iraqis and even more Afghanis) are fundamentally suspect events.

That the nation and the world are living in superficial denial of this extraordinary common knowledge is intolerable to Griffin, who has spent five years writing seven books to bring this truth into open view for all to see.

4. Relevance: Griffin has said elsewhere that our failure to address the truly calamitous problem of climate change has been due to a significant degree to our preoccupation with the so-called war on terror, which, in a closed loop, is being waged to increase access to oil.

It is thus essential that we all understand at once, at a collective level, that the quest for Middle East oil has driven a rogue element within the United States power structure to the false flag attacks of 9/11.

And this seminal book offers proof beyond doubt. It is as clear as a mountain stream.

Such clarity is enormously powerful because it unifies human understanding as a basis for action. This is the exposé that can tip the scales of public demand towards the truth and accountability the world so desperately needs.
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Reviewer's Note: With this book, Dr. Griffin has made a huge contribution to our knowledge base on a matter of crucial importance. It is up to others to get it into circulation. Here's how: Ask for it in bookstores. Write reviews. Add it to reading lists. Discuss it in book clubs. Give copies to professors. Phone reporters about it. Talk about it at coffee. Explain its relation to climate change. Give it to friends. Join your local 9/11 group, where you will find superlative people.

Beginning with The New Pearl Harbor (2004), David Ray Griffin has written and edited a masterful series of books laying bare the overwhelming evidence that 9/11 was a false-flag operation designed to trigger criminal wars of aggression abroad and a rollback of civil liberties at home. But you don't need to read all eight of those books to understand the case. With The New Pearl Harbor Revisited (September 2008), Griffin provides a much-needed supplement to the original, groundbreaking work, in a concise and readable format. Anyone who wants to understand the gist of the evidence for official complicity in 9/11 should read these two books, The New Pearl Harbor and The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, and check out Griffin's sources. And anyone already familiar with the case that 9/11 was an inside job should consider giving these two books to those as-yet unfamiliar with the evidence.

I predict that Dr. Griffin, whose unflinching courage and integrity is a model for all people of good will, will one day be recognized as one of the most important figures of our time. The case he presents is so clear and cogent, yet so unacknowledged by official culture, that only purely emotional factors can have prevented its immediate public acceptance. One is reminded of Galileo. And the case of Galileo in turn reminds us that as emotional blinders wear off, and worldviews change, clear and cogent truths have a way of coming to light. I only hope that this will happen reasonably quickly, so that Dr. Griffin will be able to retire from politics with the accolades he deserves, and set to work on the Summa Theologica that he has been forced to postpone due to the 9/11-triggered national and global emergency.

Truth Jihad: My Epic Struggle Against the 9/11 Big Lie

Griffin's latest book continues his presentation of questions
that have been raised about the official account of events
as reported by the 9/11 commission. To his credit, and unlike
many other 9/11 truth seekers, he points out clear in-
consistencies in the official account, and calls for a new,
truly independent,investigation of all the relevant facts.
After reading many of the websites on the subject of 9/11,
and Griffin's book, I am left with the inescapable conclusion
that at least one thing is clearly wrong with the official story.
That is: why were 4 hijacked airliners allowed to fly around
uncontested for such a prolonged period of time? Trisonic
fighter planes can cover a tremendous amount of ground in as
little as 10-12 minutes. Why didn't they intercept?