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Did Benjamin Netanyahu & Philip Zelikow write “the 9/11 script”? Netanyahu has said repeatedly that he PREDICTED 9/11 back in 1995 - apart from the seemingly unanticipated “flying bombs” & actually naming Osama bin Laden, who was barely on anyone’s radar back in 1995.
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Netanyahu in his book Fighting Terrorism (1995) "predicted" that - if we don't stop "this rising tide of Islamic terrorism" - one day "a nuclear-armed Iran" might use “its pre-armed militants in the West” to detonate “a nuclear bomb in the basement of the World Trade Center”
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In 1998 Philip Zelikow w/Ashton Carter & John Deutch published article "Catastrophic Terrorism" in Foreign Affairs (CFR) also raising the specter of nukes under the WTC & implicitly pointing to Osama bin Laden, just indicted for the East Africa bombings
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In addition to co-authoring this "astonishingly precognitive" article, Philip Zelikow, "a self-described expert in 'the creation and maintenance of public myths' wrote the 9/11 Commission Report in chapter outline before the Commission even convened"!
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kevinbarrett.heresycentral.is/2016/04/911-co…
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Netanyahu & Zelikow leave to our imagination what a SINGLE nuke would have done under the WTC but quite clearly 9/11 ended up looking nothing like what Ramzi Yousef testified he intended w/his van bomb - to cause one tower to topple onto the other tower
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Although the damage to the Twin Towers was far worse than anything anybody - except the perpetrators - could have ever imagined, NO network reporter, anchor or commentator seriously raised the possibility that nukes might have been involved in the devastation on 9/11
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Instead, to a shocked & awed public, the TV networks on 9/11 from the very beginning pushed what would become the "official” story of a bin Laden-directed, top-down “collapse” of the Twin Towers due to “flying bombs", a story that came to dominate all TV networks by day's end
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When one watches in retrospect how we were manipulated to accept this "official" story, it is not hard to think that there was some kind of "9/11 script" that at least certain TV reporters, anchors & commentators were following & that some "guiding hand" was behind it all.
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At Fox from the moment anchor John Scott came on at 0857 ET - even BEFORE the “2nd plane” hit - he was suggesting a possible "deliberate" attack like the 1989 [sic] WTC bombing that tried "to bring down the building by knocking out the support pillars"
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Once the "2nd plane" struck at 0903 ET, ALL the major networks started speculating about Osama bin Laden being behind it, although cautiously remembering rush to judgment after OKC bombing & TWA Flight 800 initially blamed on Middle East terrorists
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Where we really start to see "the 9/11 script" kick in is @ 0959 ET w/"collapse" of WTC2 & this "dialogue" btwn Fox News anchor John Scott & reporter Bill Daley explaining how the tower wasn't designed to withstand a direct hit from a 737 loaded w/fuel
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As to what verb to apply to what WTC2 did, John Scott tried "falling apart", "crumble", "fall", "disintegrate" & ended w/"the building simply collapsed of its own weight" b/c "there was so much damage from the heat of the fire" #SteelWillMelt
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