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the man behind it all, and that the Taliban in Afghanistan would soon be handing over its proof. Ten more days went by, at which time Colin Powell said he’d soon show us the documentation. Meantime, in three separate statements, bin Laden denied any involvement. On December 13, the State Department released a video purporting to show him describing the attacks, but before long a lot of people were questioning whether it was authentic. On the day after Christmas, a Taliban official said he’d attended Osama’s funeral! But on the 27th of December came a bin Laden video praising al-Qaeda’s successful hit on us. Another couple years went by before a third tape surfaced—October 29, 2004, a few days before the presidential election (think “heightened terror alert!”)—with a blatant taking of full responsibility. However, as of June 6, 2006, the FBI said it had “no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.” He’s been charged with several crimes related to terrorist attacks, but not with 9/11.37 I find that very odd. Not one shred of evidence produced in a courtroom that leads to the conclusion bin Laden spearheaded these attacks. The justice system that works for anything else is suddenly suspended over terrorism.

We’re led to believe that a hijacker’s passport flew out of his pocket when his plane hit the tower, made it safely through 9,000 gallons of jet fuel, and landed to be found on a sidewalk a thousand feet below. Another hijacker’s ID supposedly turned up in the Pentagon wreckage, one of a few pieces that survived. Meantime, awaiting discovery in rental cars left behind at Boston Logan and Washington Dulles airports, was enough evidence to convict had they lived: an Arabic flight manual, a check made out to a Phoenix flight school, maps of Washington and New York, and more.38 Does this remind anyone else of Oswald leaving behind a paper trail to his purchase of the rifle, or James Earl Ray depositing his bundle full of incriminating evidence near the scene of the crime? Alleged hijacker Mohamed Atta was first said to have left a rented Mitsubishi at Boston Logan, but that story was later changed into a blue or silver Nissan left in Portland, Maine. Didn’t seem to matter which vehicle, because both were said to be filled with box cutters and other incriminating items.

These guys were all made out to be fanatic, Koran-toting Muslims ready to die for Allah in a Holy War against America. Except, in their final days, according to people who knew them, they were drinking, visiting strip clubs, soliciting prostitutes, and watching porno on the tube. Atta’s girlfriend said he liked to snort cocaine. Atta seemed to be all over the place before 9/11: doing coke in Hollywood, Florida; living in Venice, Florida, near the NSA; and in Hamburg, Germany.39

Who some of the hijackers were really working for, at least once upon a time, first came out in media tidbits. From Newsweek (September 15, 2001): “U.S. military sources have given the FBI information that suggests five of the alleged hijackers of the planes that were used in the terror attacks received training at secure U.S. military installations in the 1990s.” Same day, New York Times: “The Defense Department said Mr. Atta had gone to the International Officers School at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama; Mr. al-Omari to the Aerospace Medical School at Brooks Air Force Base in Texas; and Mr. al-Ghamdi to the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio in Monterey, Calif.”

Well, our military’s School of the Americas once helped train the Central American death squads, so our providing lethal skills to terrorists—excuse me, I mean “freedom fighters”—shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. But it gets stranger still. Two of the alleged hijackers rented an apartment from and actually lived with FBI informants. The CIA had operational interest in two of them, Nawaz al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar. FBI agents believed “that the agency was protecting Midhar and Hazmi because it hoped to recruit them,” or alternatively that “the CIA was running a joint venture with Saudi intelligence” using