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The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 Paperback – March 30, 2004
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A philosopher at the Claremont School of Theology, Griffin scrutinizes the time line and physical evidence of September 11 for unresolved inconsistencies. Griffin draws heavily on three similarly skeptical examinations, by Nafeez Ahmed, Paul Thompson and Thierry Meyssan, whose The Big Lie was a bestseller in France, and which the New Republic has called "thinâ€"and thinly argued." Based on these sources, Griffin maintains that a full investigation of the events of that tragic day is necessary to answer such questions as whether American Airlines Flight 77 did crash into the Pentagon (though many will find it impossible to doubt this) and how United Airlines Flight 93 was downed. He claims that if standard procedures for scrambling fighter jets had been followed, the hijacked planes should have been intercepted in time, and that structurally, the collapse of the World Trade Center towers most likely was caused by explosives placed throughout the towers, not from the plane crashes. He strongly implies that the Bush administration had foreknowledge of the attack and sought to conceal what Griffin suggests was the Pakistani intelligence agency's involvement in the planning for the attacks. His analysis is undergirded by the theory that a significant external threat, on the scale of Pearl Harbor, was very much in the interest of the Bush administration, which he believes is intent on self-interested aggressive foreign policies. Even many Bush opponents will find these charges ridiculous, though conspiracy theorists may be haunted by the suspicion that we know less than we think we do about that fateful day.
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"...a must-read for all who want to get past the conspiracy of silence and mystification that surrounds these events." -- John B. Cobb, Jr., Professor of Theology, Emeritus Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University
"Griffin's book goes a long way in answering...What did the President know, and when did he know it?" -- Wayne Madsen, Author, journalist, syndicated columnist
"It will be painful...to turn the pages of this thoughtful and meticulously researched book. But turn we must." -- Colleen Kelly, sister of Bill Kelly Jr., who was killed in the World Trade Center on 9/11, and co-founder of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
"Sensitive to the "conspiracy theory" mind-stop that has disconnected...Americans from the facts of this...event. [A] courageously impeccable work." -- John McMurtry PhD Professor of Philosophy, University of Guelph
"This book gives us a foundation to discover the truth, one that we may not wish to hear." -- Gerry Spence
"This is a very important book... A must-read for anyone concerned about American foreign policy under the present administration." -- Rosemary Radford Ruether, Carpenter Professor of Feminist Theology, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
"This is an important, extraordinarily well-reasoned and provocative book that should be widely read." -- Marcus Raskin Co-founder, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC
"[A] superbly written analysis of the various criticisms of the official story made by many independent researchers." -- Jack Ceder
"[A]n extraordinary book... It is rare, indeed, that a book has this potential to become a force of history." -- from the Foreword by Richard Falk, human rights lawyer and professor emeritus, Princeton University
"[This] book presents an incontrovertible argument of the need for a genuinely full and independent investigation of that infamous day." --Douglas Sturm, Presidential Professor of Religion and Political Science, Emeritus Bucknell University
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David Ray Griffin has been a professor of philosophy of religion and theology at the Claremont School of Theology in California for over 30 years. He is co-director of the Center for Process Studies there and the author or editor of over 20 books.
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Publisher: Interlink Pub Group; 1st edition (March 30, 2004)
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Collin O'Donnell
5.0 out of 5 stars Everything You Always Wanted to Know about 9/11 (But Were Afraid to Ask)Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2015
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The New Pearl Harbor, or Everything You Always Wanted to Know about 9/11 (But Were Afraid to Ask)
As a result of careful media spinning, the bizarre and unfounded notion of American exceptionalism, and overwhelming ignorance to any contradicting facts (be it self-willed or not), the majority of Americans still believe Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda were responsible for the 9/11 attacks. The people who still believe the ‘official story’ generally fall into three categories: 1) Patriots who still believe that America is ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave.' 2) Those who accept what their leaders tell them without a thought given to their various agendas and biases. 3) Those who react violently (emotionally) to any sort of ‘conspiracy theory’ in fear that what they’re spouting might actually be true. These three groups are in no way mutually exclusive. In fact, overlap is pretty much guaranteed. The main advantage that these people have over the ‘Truthers’ (a term that should not be a pejorative, but for some reason is) is that they don’t have to argue with facts. They can simply call the opponent a delusional nut-job and end things at that. It’s the burden of Truthers to lay down a compelling argument contrary to the ‘official story,’ and retired professor David Ray Griffin presents in two carefully researched volumes a wealth of damning evidence supporting not only American complicity of the September 11th attacks, but overall orchestration.
Griffin is an academic above all and is in no way a representation of the stereotypical conspiracy theorist whose dimly-lit basement walls are collaged with newspaper articles and yarn. He’s simply an educated man in search of the objective truth, as every American should be. Taking a level-headed and emotionally-detached look at the massive and varied array of evidence disproving the ‘official story,’ Griffin systematically shreds every single strand of the government’s poorly spun web of lies. He dissects the impossibility of the attacks themselves, rightfully concluding that all signs point to false-flag instead of the purported ‘massive communication breakdown’ as a result of incompetence (although incompetence was certainly in the cards when it came to the sloppy conception of the ‘official story.’) Beyond the highly incriminating and contradictory evidence presented by the government and media about the events of 9/11, Griffin culls both pre and post-9/11 history and collects the undeniable motives of perpetrating such a heinous crime and contrasts them with the results of Bush’s ‘War on Terror.’ He sheds light on the fact that the 9/11 commission investigating the attacks was 100% bias and government orchestrated. Along with this, Griffin presents a cast of tragic heroes, government workers who were bullied and silenced in their attempts to take an objective look at 9/11. Furthermore, he uses historical precedent (the thankfully abandoned Operation Northwoods, the sinking of the USS Maine) as a device to help the reader understand that the government is not above harming innocent civilians as a pretext for military action. All of these points and more are the building blocks of Griffin’s book, yet he doesn’t stop at these broad highlights. His in-depth and tireless research can be clearly seen in the 1000+ citations used in the book’s creation. Reading The New Pearl Harbor volumes and The 9/11 Commission Report back-to-back, it’s obvious Griffin’s research and objective standpoint make a far more compelling argument than the heavily-biased, narrow-minded, and government-backed Commission Report.
The New Pearl Harbor is probably the most important work of modern non-fiction not to be recognized by the general public. Why, one might ask, is this so? Simply put, Griffin doesn’t dance around the obvious like many political writers tend to do. Many commercially successful books have been written about the corrupt Bush administration and the oil agenda of the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, but while these writers seem very open to the widely publicized corruption and greed of the American Government in the Middle East, they neglect crucial facts about the event that kicked it all off. Why don’t they challenge the 9/11 ‘official story’ of the government they openly criticize as corrupt? Because they would be challenging the beliefs of over half of our nation, and that kind of reporting doesn’t sell books on a mass scale. Of course All the President’s Men was a huge hit, but Watergate was a kind of scandal that people could believe the government was capable of having perpetrated. 9/11, on the other hand, is a comparatively enormous scandal that blocks the common sense of Americans due to its sheer magnitude. We don’t want to believe it’s true, so we ignore any evidence that it might be. That’s why The New Pearl Harbor isn’t a bestseller, and that’s why wholly honest reporting is doomed unless reporters and writers can put ego, popularity, and financial gain on the back burner and focus on the unadulterated truth.
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Nick G. Athas
5.0 out of 5 stars Open Your Eyes AmericaReviewed in the United States on October 18, 2013
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There is a lot more to the 911 saga, than we are lead to believe. The odd thing is that most American's don't seem to be interested in learning the truth !! I used to always wonder how the people of Germany, could sit back & not object to Hitler's ways, but now I see how that can happen. Those German people weren't much different from Americans today. We ignore anything that might be uncomfortable to accept, & go about our daily lives. This should be a must read for every America who cares about his country.
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John S Harris
5.0 out of 5 stars Getting away with murderReviewed in the United States on October 12, 2009
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Once you can get past the horrified emotional response you had to the attacks and the sight of the buildings collapsing and so many people dying, you can start to look at things again but a bit more objectively. Not everyone will have the same timeline for that. Some will never get over the horror and will remain frozen by it. But everyone else should take another look. The "official story" of what happened on 9-11 is full of holes big enough to fly a plane through (if that's in bad taste, I'm sorry.)
You don't even have to read all of this book, though you will probably want to once you get started. The first two chapters are more than enough to convince anyone skeptical of the conspiracy theories. Just read up to page 65 or so and your entire outlook will change forever.
Griffin isn't on a witch hunt to persecute Bush or his administration or anyone else. He wants what we should ALL want -- for the world to open their minds, review these events with a more objective eye, and investigate these events more deeply.
The powers-that-be who were behind the conspiracy are very fortunate to have pulled off this terrible plan in our modern age. Increasingly the U.S. is a nation of undereducated sheep who believe everything they see and hear on television. Too many of us have lost the ability to think critically and engage in open and critical dialogue about the subjects that REALLY matter.
For too many Americans, if it ain't on "American Idol" they don't give a rat's behind about it. So way to go, you terrorists from both overseas and within our own walls! You pulled off the crime of the millennium and you had American apathy on your side to make it just that much easier. I guess that makes us complicit too, huh?
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DC gal
5.0 out of 5 stars Blew my mind - we are living a nightmareReviewed in the United States on August 17, 2007
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How do I get my mind around the inevitable conclusion: that 9/11 was an inside job? All the rhetoric from Bush and Cheney about the evil-doers, the sub-humans who care nothing for human life and want to kill us: they are speaking of themselves. We have entered that phase of world history where global power is slowly, silently being seized by very evil men who stop at nothing to unfold their demonic visions. The people who died in the WTC and the Pentagon were murdered by their own govt.
A few facts from the book: The towers were full of asbestos and it was almost impossible to demolish them any other way. By pretending the collapse was caused by terrorism, citizens cannot sue Silverstein for lung damage. There seemed to be a lot of incentive on the part of the leaseholder, Silverstein, to bring them down.
There was an unprecedented fullpower shutdown the weekend prior to 9-11. All security cameras were turned off. This according to an IT guy for Fidelity named Forbes, Google him. He reported a lot of workmen with spools of wire cables that weekend, he was told that internet cables were being upgraded. Because he worked all weekend, he took Tuesday off and watched the towers collapse from home in NJ. He instantly thought it was related to the work down over the weekend.
Also, all bomb-sniffing dogs were removed from the premises 5 days prior to 9/11 -- that would be Friday. What would the dogs have sniffed if they had been there that weekend?
Read the book.
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George H. Lyda, Jr.
1.0 out of 5 stars Newbies onlyReviewed in the United States on February 27, 2019
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Don’t bother, a useless rehash of known facts or theories unless you are a neophyte to the tragedy.
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Denise Salmons
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book, I highly recommend itReviewed in the United States on September 21, 2019
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I owned this book years ago, but foolishly lent it to someone and never seen it again. The information that is covered is something everyone should be made aware of.
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SeaGoat under Sirius
5.0 out of 5 stars Great but consider buying the 2009 updated RE-VISITED New Pearl Harbour. It's even-better!Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 24, 2010
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There is only one 911 book that's better than this one. It's the updated one: David Ray Griffin's updated tome, "THE NEW PEARL HARBOUR REVISITED" ("The New Pearl Harbor Revisited" - US spelling) is the ideal companion volume to buy when you but this seminal work. This book bravely raised many of the big questions that have become the cornerstone to what really happened on 9/11. It's not just an inquiry into the oddities and outrageous coincidences that make the official theory so unbelievable, it's not just what U.S. Senators, and members of The House of Representatives say; it's what members of the 911 Commission now say:
Current U.S. Senator (Patrick Leahy) states "The two questions that the congress will not ask . . . is why did 9/11 happen on George Bush's watch when he had clear warnings that it was going to happen? Why did they allow it to happen?"
Current Republican Congressman (Ron Paul) calls for a new 9/11 investigation and states that "we see the [9/11] investigations that have been done so far as more or less cover-up and no real explanation of what went on"
Current Democratic Congressman (Dennis Kucinich) hints that we aren't being told the truth about 9/11
Former Democratic Senator (Mike Gravel) states that he supports a new 9/11 investigation and that we don't know the truth about 9/11
Former Republican Senator (Lincoln Chaffee) endorses a new 9/11 investigation
Former U.S. Democratic Congressman (Dan Hamburg) says that the U.S. government "assisted" in the 9/11 attacks!
Former U.S. Republican Congressman and senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, and who served six years as the Chairman of the Military Research and Development Subcommittee (Curt Weldon) has shown that the U.S. tracked hijackers before 9/11, is open to hearing information about explosives in the Twin Towers, and is open to the possibility that9/11 was an inside job
According to the Co-Chair of the Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and former Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham, a U.S. government informant was the landlord to two of the hijackers for over a year (but the White House refused to let the 9/11 inquiry interview him).
The co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission (Thomas Keane and Lee Hamilton) said that the CIA (and likely the White House) "obstructed our investigation".
The co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission also said that the 9/11 Commissioners knew that military officials misrepresented the facts to the Commission, and the Commission considered recommending criminal charges for such false statements, yet didn't bother to tell the American people.
Indeed, the co-chairs of the Commission now admit that the Commission largely operated based upon political considerations.
9/11 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton says "I don't believe for a minute we got everything right", that the Commission was set up to fail, that people should keep asking questions about 9/11, that the 9/11 debate should continue, and that the 9/11 Commission report was only "the first draft" of history.
9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey said that "There are ample reasons to suspect that there may be some alternative to what we outlined in our version . . . We didn't have access . . . ."
9/11 Commissioner Timothy Roemer said "We were extremely frustrated with the false statements we were getting"
Former 9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland resigned from the Commission, stating: "It is a national scandal"; "This investigation is now compromised"; and "One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up".
9/11 Commissioner John Lehman said that "We purposely put together a staff that had - in a way - conflicts of interest".
The Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission (John Farmer) who led the 9/11 staff's inquiry, said"I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described .... The tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years..."
This is a must-read for everyone who cares about what really happened and the way we all had the wool pulled over our eyes. Griffin's evidence rips to shreds the lies of the Corporate administration that was Cheney-Rumsfeld-Bush, working to an extreme right-wing philosophy - that of Leo Strauss, whose extreme ideas influenced Neo-Conservative thinking in the years when these people, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearl, and the above-mentioned, amongst others were dreaming-up a New World Order (Their Project for The New American Century - i.e. now).
Today we live in the early days of their new order.
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Jürgen Schwarzer
5.0 out of 5 stars allarmierende analogien...Reviewed in Germany on February 24, 2014
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wie in meinen rezensionen zu "another nineteen" & "real enemies" (die ich ebenso wie dieses buch unbedingt zu lesen empfehle!)
schon teilweise erklärt, ging es beim anschlag am 11.9.2001 darum, dem land & der welt einen überzeugenden grund für
weitere rüstung zu präsentieren - nach dem ende des kalten krieges & dem zusammenbruch der kommunistischen staaten
(keine echte gefahr mehr, zudem ja leider so lokal begrenzt) nun, "for a new american century" den "war against terror":
wunderbar weltweit, überallhin, wo US-interessen gefährdet sein könnten, "permanent war for permanent peace" (der titel eines
weiteren, sehr interessanten buches!)... & bei allen opfern, die man sich & anderen abverlangt, an "geld UND leben", nicht zu
gewinnen - quasi die erfindung des (kriegs)politischen perpetuum mobile... ein jahr vor einem "katastrophischen ereignis
WIE pearl harbor", ohne das man die bevölkerung nicht hinter sich scharen könne, (be)schreiben die neo-konservativen berater
in ihrem projektentwurf, was sich dann (ganz ohne ihr zutun) ereignet - müßte so ein papier nicht jeden kriminologen stutzen
lassen? auch die zahl der (echten) toten entspricht denen, die in pearl harbor geopfert wurden... lesen & staunen (schaudern!)!
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Martin Rau
5.0 out of 5 stars grossartigReviewed in Germany on January 20, 2014
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David Ray Griffin gibt in seinem buch "The New Pearl Harbor" eine sehr gute zusammenfassung der kritischen argumente, die gegen die offizielle version der ereignisse vom 11. September sprechen. Allerdings ist die erste fassung von 2004, deswegen geht er in diesem buch geht er noch nicht auf den bericht von NIST zu WTC 7 ein (2008). Im ersten teil behandelt Griffin jeweils die einzelnen flüge der vier angeblich gekaperten flugzeuge und geht in einem weiteren kapitel auf das verhalten von Präsident G.W. Bush ein. Im zweiten teil hat er für mich sehr eindrücklich das grössere umfeld der anschläge dargestellt. Er geht von den verbindungen aus, die zwischen Al Qaida, Saudi Arabien, dem pakistanischen geheimdienst ISI und der Bush regierung bestehen, so kann er schlüssig nachweisen, dass die Bush regierung in die anschläge vom 11. September verwickelt gewesen sein muss.
Ein sehr lesenswertes buch, es ist für das verständnis unserer modernen geschichte grundlegend. Wir sollten uns nicht von den offiziellen lügen verführen lassen. Martin Rau
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Rafael Morís Pablos
5.0 out of 5 stars Irrebatible desenmascaramiento del ataque de falsa bandera del 11-SReviewed in Spain on November 22, 2013
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Irrebatible desenmascaramiento del ataque de falsa bandera del 11-S. Su único fallo es no insistir más en lo más descarado, que es la imposibilidad física de la 'explicación oficial' del derrumbe de las 3 torres.
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Yves Svoie
5.0 out of 5 stars Five StarsReviewed in Canada on April 10, 2010
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real interesting read ...thanks!
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