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“We’ve been begging our Government for 15 years… and we’re told it’s classified, top secret, you can’t know more details about the death of your Dad.” - Brett Eagleson, whose father Bruce died in the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks
Fifteen years after 9/11, this new documentary for ITV investigates serious concerns that the real story surrounding that fateful day is yet to be told.
Ever since the attacks, conspiracy theories - some credible and some wacky - have persisted about what actually took place. Among those who contribute is Jimmy Walter, a millionaire businessman, who still believes that the attacks were staged by the US government to benefit the defence industry.
Dylan Avery, who made ‘Loose Change,’ a documentary that questioned many of the official explanations about 9/11, tells the programme that many of the issues he raised have still not been adequately explained.
But aside from these theories, the documentary asks how much is still to be revealed about the events of that day. It contains allegations from victims' families that the US administration has put its relationship with Saudi Arabia above the lives of their loved ones, and from former insiders who say how they believe the attacks could have been prevented and that mistakes made by the various intelligence agencies have been buried to protect them from further criticism.
Jimmy Walter’s explanation for the collapse of the Twin Towers is that they were brought down by explosives and the images of the planes crashing into the buildings were computer graphics. He believes the US government had plenty of reasons for orchestrating such an attack. He says: “The military was getting their funding cut, the CIA was getting their funding cut."
While his claims may sound like fantasy, others believe that the truth of what happened that sunny Tuesday morning still hasn’t been adequately revealed. Dylan Avery’s Loose Change documentary attracted millions of viewers on YouTube, and he accepts now that some of his earlier views have changed. In recent versions of his film Dylan has removed some more extreme claims such as passengers being offloaded from Flight 93 before it crashed. But he still believes that many of the questions posed by the film are as wholly relevant today as they’ve ever been. He says: “One of the things we talked about in those early days was… Why do we not know where the hijackers got their money? Where did they get their support? Why did no-one…catch these guys.”
David Dunbar explains how he and his colleagues at Popular Mechanics investigated the various conspiracy theories and concluded none held up.
In the years before 9/11 the intelligence community had been fearing that Al Qaeda would carry out a major high-profile attack – the director of the CIA even famously commented, ‘The system was blinking red.’ Mark Rossini had been seconded from the from the FBI, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to work for Alec Station - a unit of the CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency, gathering foreign intelligence on Al Qaeda.
In December 1999 he and a FBI colleague learned that two Saudis, both known Al Qaeda members, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, travelled to Malaysia to plan further attacks and had US visas in their passports. But Mark says that his CIA bosses wanted to keep the information to themselves. He says: “It’s not for the FBI to know. I said, ‘What do you mean, it’s not for the FBI to know? [And I was told] ‘When and if we want the FBI to know, we will let them know, but you’re not to say anything.’ So, I’m stopped in my tracks.”
Thomas Drake worked as a senior analyst for the National Security Agency, the organisation that monitors communications and intelligence. He recalls discovering that whilst Mihdhar and Al-Hamzi lived in San Diego their phone calls to Al-Qaeda HQ in Yemen had been recorded, but that key intelligence about them - including that the calls came from San Diego - was not analysed and shared with other agencies. He says: “You can imagine my horror finding out critical intelligence inside NSA databases that was undiscovered.”
Two months before 9/11 the CIA admitted they had lost the pair and asked the FBI for help, but by then it was too late. Many relatives of those who died on 9/11 still don’t believe they’ve been told the full story. Kathy Owens lost her husband, Pete, in the Twin Towers, and says: “Isn’t the main job of the government to keep their people safe? I at least expected them to stick up for us, and stand up for us, and get to the bottom of everyone who was responsible and tried to stop it from happening again.”
The US Government says the 9/11 Commission provided a definitive statement about the nature of Al Qaeda support that came from Saudi Arabia and did not determine that the Saudi government had intended to support it, but Senator Bob Graham says he has questions about whether close ties between the United States and Saudi Arabia have meant the real story has been buried. |
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