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9-11: TV Asahi (Japan) Primetime Special on 9-11 Conspiracy Theories - A Viewer Report
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valis on Sep 11, 2004 - 04:57 PM
TV
This evening I watched the TV Asahi special on 9/11 entitled "Terror! Pursuing the 9-11/Bush Conspiracy Theories," a two-hour special (and No. 2 on BobbySophistry's list) that addressed seven topics and featured short discussions of each among the celebrity guests on the show (none of whom, except perhaps Beat Takeshi, are likely known outside Japan).
The show was done entirely in Japanese -- comments in English were dubbed over in Japanese -- so, as you are not likely to see a rebroadcast over there anytime soon, I thought I'd give a brief overview of the content. Please note that any misspellings of names below are due to the fact that the names were given in katakana transliteration.
1. Was Flight 93 shot down?
This segment featured interviews with David Ray Griffin and William Thomas, people living near the crash site and Japanese aviation experts. Discussed were the scattering of plane wreckage over a 13-kilometer area along the flight path, reports of a second plane having been spotted, and seismograph readings showing a sonic boom (from an F-16?) shortly before Flight 93 crashed.
2. Were the phone calls from Flight 93 faked?
This segment started with a look at Barbara Olson's call, asking why she would make a time-consuming collect call in an emergency situation. The show then pursued the calls made from the plane that day but discovered that no records were available anywhere. An experiment was conducted to show that cell phone calls from even a much lower height than Flight 93 are not possible, and the suggestion was made (and another demonstration done to show) that the calls could have been made from the ground, not the air, by editing together tape recordings of the passengers' voices for transmission to family members for the purpose of establishing that the hijackers were of Middle Eastern origin.
3. Bush's (in)actions on 9-11
This segment began with a look, a la Michael Moore, at Bush's seven-minute "deer in the headlights" imitation after receiving notification of the second plane hitting the WTC. The show's reporters interviewed the principal of Booker Elementary School and Linda Carson of ABC and learned that Bush had received the report of the first plane crash while in the car on the way to the school; he phoned Rice from the school (overheard by the principal) to say that he would continue on with the visit. The show then played Bush's announcement three months later at a town meeting that he had learned of the first plane crash when he saw it on TV, and brought out evidence to prove that this was clearly a lie. The segment closed with a quick examination of the Phoenix Memo and other information that should have led Bush to take action before 9-11.
4. What hit the Pentagon and where did AA77 go?
This segment opened by questioning the idea that a plane hit the Pentagon because of the size of the hole made in the building, the incredible flying skill needed to hit the Pentagon without hitting any of the smaller structures and fences in the way, and the clear shortage of plane wreckage and lawn damage. A Japanese expert pointed out that, at the very least, the titanium parts of the plane's engines would have survived the crash, and other crashes were shown to illustrate how much wreckage could be expected. Alan Wallace of the FMMC Fire Department was interviewed, and he and the other fire department personnel mentioned their surprise at finding so little aircraft wreckage at the scene. The AP photos of the instant before and after but not during the impact were broadcast, and witness reports of a missile-like object/sound were mentioned. The show's reporters tried to question the staff at the gas station across from the Pentagon about the film footage captured on their security camera, but they were turned away by a military policeman. The program then looked at the possibility of a cruise missile strike against the Pentagon, comparing the size of the hole in the Pentagon to such a missile and the size of a cruise missile's engine with that of the engine appearing in photos taken at the Pentagon. Also raised was the question of why AA77 disappeared from the air traffic control radars at Indianapolis but was then picked up at Dulles Air Traffic Control shortly before the crash. Newspaper reports of a second airplane crash near Washington were offered as a possible explanation for the disappearance of AA77.
5. Were the hijacked planes remotely controlled?
The show then touched on the possibility of the hijacked planes having been remotely controlled. Doubts were raised about the ability of Atta et al. to have flown 767s since they had only received simulator training on 737s. Stanley Hilton, an attorney suing the US government on behalf of some 9-11 families, discussed the possibility of the US military having controlled the planes, and their successful US-to-Australia flight of the Global Hawk was offered as evidence of the technical feasibility. Similarities between the WTC planes and Egypt Air 990 (which crashed in 1999) -- that the aircraft models were the same and that Egypt Air 990 and UA175 were directed by the same air traffic controller -- were also examined. Readily willing to accept the suspicions raised in the earlier segments, the guests on the show were noticeably skeptical about this particular theory.
6. How did the US government determine that Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda were to blame?
This segment started out with a glance at the preliminary "evidence" against Al Qaeda (the Atta passport, the Koran and flight manuals in the car, etc.) and the idea that these were planted. This was followed by a continuation of the interview with Stanley Hilton, who stated that the wife of one of the hijacking suspects had provided testimony that the FBI had been funding Al Qaeda. A Japanese political analyst was brought on for a very short introduction to the US' sponsorship of Al Qaeda in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan, and then the show took up the investigations and "untimely" death of FBI agent John O'Neill.
7. Ties between Bush and bin Laden
The final bit began with a few clips from Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 911" on Bush-bin Laden business ties, and then questioned the motives of the US government in flying out 24 members of the bin Laden family on September 19. An interview with Carmen bin Laden was aired to support the premise that Osama bin Laden may not be as disassociated with his family as the US government has suggested. The program then brought up the close ties between the government and the defense industry and between members of the Bush administration and Big Oil, going on to point out that administration-connected companies hadve benefitted to the tune of 66 trillion yen as a result of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. A Japanese political analyst very strongly hinted that the US government has no interest in capturing bin Laden, preferring instead to use him as an excuse to continue its worldwide "War on Terror" to secure global domination. David Griffin's The New Pearl Harbor book was then mentioned, and a few points in common between 12/7 and 9/11 were noted.
As you can tell, the show did cover quite a bit of ground but was unexpectedly thorough for a program lasting less than two hours, including commercials. No doubt some of you will be disappointed that there was no investigation of the Air Force's response (or lack thereof) to the hijackings, no consideration of the possibility that the WTC towers were demolished by explosives and, of course, no mention of possible Israeli complicity but then how many prime-time shows in the US have done this?
The narrators concluded each segment of the show with a comment to the effect that the matter remains shrouded in mystery, but I was pleasantly surprised at how open the guests were to the possibility that the US government had foreknowledge of the attacks and played an active role in post-9/11 cover-ups.
I hope that any of you watching/listening to other "conspiracy theory" specials being broadcast today will give us a report.
by The_Expatriate
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