A remarkable new book on 9/11

[James Lewis]

Below are a couple of excerpts from the book explaining his methodology. You may do with it what you will. From the Preface:


This project started with a curiosity about the questionable circumstances surrounding the
murder of Nick Berg, a US entrepreneur in Iraq who reportedly was in the wrong place at
the wrong time. That curiosity led to research, which led to this report. Herein is a story
a true story - that needs to be told. Even without the need' for it to be told, it represents
a mesmerizing story of intrigue, assassination, mystery, scandal, fraud, theft, cover-up,
and twisted patriotism. It is a true story about real individuals, the list of which includes
terrorists, spies (KGB, Mossad, CIA, FBI), murder victims, assassinated corporate heads,
politicians, billionaires, international bank board members, Russian Mafiya, American
mafia, Nazis, an Imperial family, and even a Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
(Templars) from the crusades! It is a story about money laundering, illegal gold,
securities fraud, conflict diamonds, weapons trading, drugs, espionage and international
stock market manipulation. It is a story about a several layers of façade and false leads.
It is a story in which the motive for the crime is measured in hundreds of billions of
dollars, and has relatively little to do with oil. It is a story which explains the execution
of seemingly innocent civilians in Iraq, the attack on the World Trade Center, and the
attack on the US economy. It is a story that provides coherent meaning to what has been
viewed as a collage of seemingly inconsistent, contradictory, inexplicable and just plain
inconvenient facts.
The search for an acceptable explanation for the death of Nick Berg in the summer of
2004 engendered more questions than answers at first. The answers to these questions
resulted in an interpretation of current events in the Middle East and the US that seemed
far removed from any currently available explanations or hypotheses. The conclusion of
this investigation is that Nick Berg was in all likelihood an agent of an Israeli secret
service, executed by elements of the Israeli secret service, for reasons that are explained
in the report. That hypothesis was so seemingly incredible that it begged "challenging."
The hypothesis has been challenged numerous times, and each time there are multiple
accounts in the media that provide answers that are consistent with the conclusions
presented in the research. Examples of such "if then" tests (such as if X happened, then
shouldn't Y happen?) are:
If the hypothesis used to explain the reasons for Nick Berg's execution is accurate,
shouldn't it also be valid for subsequent executions by the same group? (It is!)
· If the Deutsche Bank was attempting to cover-up illicit gold movements, should one
expect to find news which links the Deutsche Bank to illicit gold hoardings, measured
in hundreds of tonnes? (There are such reports!)
· If the German banking cartel had responsibility for initiating the September 11 attack,
should one be able to demonstrate their ability to activate Muslim and Mossad agents.
(It can be demonstrated, with multiple connections.)
In none of the testing of hypotheses did the available information contradict one of the
major conclusions of this paper: the official US government interpretation of terrorist
activity confronting America is deliberately misleading, and the list of "bad guys" is
totally different than what the public has been led to believe"

From the next piece, "Methodology":

Please note that this report generally follows several important rules of research:

This report uses as many independent sources as possible, rather than relying on
government press releases and mainstream media. In this report, there is evidence
from U.S. agents themselves, that the US government has forced a CIA translator, a
CIA agent and three FBI agents to fabricate and distort information on the 9/11
investigation. These people are in court to bring out the truth, and protect themselves
from repercussions. These five are only the ones coming forward publicly. The
public needs to ask - how many more remain silent? (Internet reports suggest up to
200 government agents are ready to testify against the administration.) There is also
evidence from two college professors that the CIA deliberately falsified video-tape
evidence. There is evidence presented from Underwriter Laboratories that the
government has presented false information.

Questions are best formulated by studying a situation and asking "What information
is missing?" With the hundreds of investigative reporters in the world attempting to
uncover the truth about 9/11, major points of evidence are totally ignored by the US
government and many conspiracy theorists, and treated as inconvenient' facts. This
report does not ignore them. Surprisingly, there is a strong coherency to what are
reported as coincidences and inconsistencies and all the "wild conspiracy theories"
actually hang together.

This reports looks at these events as crimes rather than political terrorist activities
which are intended to create fear. The basic rules for identifying "who did it" still
apply: motive, opportunity, weapon, and follow the money.'

If one uses the same standard of evidence as applied under the Uniform Code of
Military Justice to the alleged terrorists appearing before military tribunals, then
hearsay evidence is acceptable.

Some readers may conclude this report attempts to establish guilt by association and
character, an invalid principle in the U.S. courtroom. Guilt is determined by due
process not a report. There are Constitutional processes for determining guilt, and
this report does not seek to supplant them. However, the American criminal justice
system has established and sanctioned two practices which are based on guilt by
association and characterization: profiling and prosecution under the RICO
conspiracy laws. This report assumes that if an organization (or partnership) has
several key members that are publicly associated (not necessarily convicted) with
similar criminal activity, activities of the entire organization warrant suspicion. If
publicly available information about that organization reinforces those suspicions,
those suspicions should be investigated and reported. That is what this report does it
summarizes that information and suggests that a different theory explaining the
attacks of September 11 is consistent with the facts ignored by the official 9/11
Commission. Current interpretations of events in the Middle East (either that of the
US Government or various conspiracy theorists) do not help us understand the facts
as they are known today. There are too many dangling leads.
This report attempts to address the loose ends' in this interpretation of the news.
Major crimes have been committed and not one person has been convicted.
"Terrorists" charged for supporting 9/11 in Germany and Spain have been found not guilty. Osama Bin Laden
is not charged with 9/11 on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list because the FBI has no
evidence connecting him to the crime. This report attempts to redefine leads that
might result in holding people accountable for their crimes.
This research represents a significant paradigm shift from most of the September 11
research available. That shift is brought about by two very significant challenges created
by the information presented.
· The first challenge: look at all the information before assigning guilt. Much of the
current criticism of American public officials involved in cover-up activities has a
tendency to focus on the American and Israeli participants.' Another large band of
criticism is saved for the Saudi royal family, because of their familial relations to
Osama Bin Laden and significant financial contributions to American politics.
However, if one looks at the record of how these American and Saudi officials
actually executed their operations (ranging from criminal to legal, but generally
considered unscrupulous) there is a consistent participation by the Russian/Israeli
Mafiya and the German banking cartel, which includes certain Swiss banks. As one
digs deeper, one finds the Russian/Israeli Mafiya are quite significantly involved in
these events, and the bank cartel may well be the greatest benefactor of the crime and
cover-up. The research paradigm must include foreign nationals from Germany and
Russia.
· The second challenge: the timing of the attack on the WTC suggests a pace of events
where the planners were comfortable with a two-to-three year execution phase. A
decision to destroy the WTC was made in 1999 or 1998, with the key hijackers' in
that plot being assigned in early 1999. The research paradigm needs to be focused on
events in 1998 and 1999, not the events in January through July of 2001. Similarly,
in suggesting that the maturity date of 10 year gold backed bonds issued on
September 11, 1991 was a significant factor in the timing of the attack, that period
needs to be understood as well.
Addressing these two challenges will lead to the conclusion that a German/Swiss bank
cartel undertook a decision in 1998 to destroy a number of US investigations that
threatened their illegally gained wealth. Adnan Khashoggi was the common thread in
most of those investigations, so the Cartel would have needed to approach him as well as
Edgar Bronfman, Khashoggi's business partner. They in turn, would have most likely
approached their old colleagues: Bush Sr., Secord, Armitage, Kimche, and Azima. These
five, in turn, would have used the foot-soldiers at their disposal: Al Qaeda and the
Russian/Israeli Mafiya.
This investigation is not an attempt to support a particular political viewpoint. In the end,
there is no final proof and there is no confession. If there was a confession, it would
disappear as if it never existed, and every mention of it would be erased. People who
present information critical of the Iran-Contra Syndicate often commit suicide within 24
hours, and their reports disappear (e.g., Brad Doucette, John Millis and Gary Webb). A
list of nineteen such murdered individuals is compiled in this report.
The crimes described here-in are very complex, and executed by both professional and vicious
criminals. The cover-up of these crimes is done by people who cause their accusers and
whistleblowers to lose promotions, jobs, freedom and possibly even lives. While "proof"
is hard to come by, there is a very compelling case of circumstantial evidence. The
explanation provides better answers for more of the open issues than the official 9/11
Commission Report. It also provides a better explanation than suggested by a number of
conspiracy theorists who suggest the Bush administration and CIA or Israeli government
are at fault. All three of those explanations leave too many unanswered questions, and
none really explain the reason the World Trade Center was brought down with a series of
explosions, or how suspicious trading indicated there were those with foreknowledge of
the crime. Conspiracy theorists also like to conveniently forget that the attack on the
World Trade Center was planned and initiated before the Republican National
Convention, before George Bush Jr. was even an official candidate for President, much
less President. Moreover, there is nothing in the historical record to suggest he is capable
of architecting such a solution.
At the end of the day, it's always about the money, and the money trail points to none of
the official suspects Osama Bin Laden or Al Qaeda. However, even after identifying a
more realistic suspect, there is no good news in this story for anyone. It is still a story
about corrupt and greedy people however noble they thought their intentions they are
directly responsible for the unnecessary death and suffering of thousands and thousands
of innocent people like your parents, children and friends, for no reason other than selfgratification
and ego.

Res Ipsa Loquitur - the thing speaks for itself