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9/11: What Happened and Why

By: Dr. Matthew Robinson

Appalachian State University

robinsnmb@appstate.edu

Each of the following web pages, developed by Dr. Matthew Robinson, deals with what the 9/11 Commission reported and what other investigations into 9/11 have revealed.  The main sources other than the 9/11 Commission reports for this information comes from the books I am using for my graduate course 9/11: Failures, Responses, and Lessons Learned, to be taught during the Fall 2005 semester at Appalachian State University.  They include:

1) Senator Bob Graham's book, Intelligence Matters;
2) Former Chief of Counterterrorism (under Presidents Clinton and Bush) Richard Clarke's book, Against All Enemies;
3) Paul Thompson's book, called the The Terror Timeline; and
4) Noam Chomsky's book, Hegemony or Survival.

From these sources, we can discover more of the truth of what happened on 9/11.

Course syllabus (MS WORD format)
Term paper guidelines (MS WORD format)

Web pages devoted to understanding 9/11:

Note to site visitors: These pages are being updated NOW and will be reposted with corrections, additions as they are ready

Note to students: Please wait to read and print files until the "Updated" notice appears!!!

9/11 LINKS

1) Facts of the 9/11 Commission and the Official Story of What Happened (Updated August 2005)

• Class notes: Facts of the 9/11 Commission and Efforts to Block it by the Bush Administration (Powerpoint format)
• Class notes: The Official Story, Part 1 (timing of fighter response) (Powerpoint format)

2) The Official Story of How They Got Here and Why They Did It (Updated August 2005)

• Class notes: The Official Story, Part 2 (the hijackers and the flights) (Powerpoint format)
• Class notes: The Official Story, Part 3 (how the idea came about and how they got here ) (Powerpoint format)

3) Why They Really Did It (Updated August 2005)

4) Evidence consistent with the official story (Updated August 2005)

5a) Problems with the Official Story: Things That Don’t Fit (Updated August 2005)

• Class notes: Things That Fit, Things That Don't (Powerpoint format)

5b) Problems with the Official Story: Who Really Did It (includes The Role of Foreign Nations in 9/11: Saudi Arabia and Pakistan (Updated September 2005)

• Class notes: Things That Don't Fit: Who Really Did It (Powerpoint format)
• Class notes: Saudi Connections to 9/11 and Terrorism (Powerpoint format)
• Class notes: Things That Don't Fit: Who Really Did It, Part 2 (Powerpoint format)

6) Failures:
6a) Failures on 9/11 (Updated September 2005)
6b) Warning Prior to 9/11 About Airplanes Being Used as Weapons (Updated August 2005)
6c) Other Warnings (including about World Trade Center and Pentagon) (Updated August 2005)

• Claims by the Bush Administration Regarding Warnings (Updated September 2005)
• Class notes: Warnings Identified by Students That Suggest Intelligence Agencies Should Have Seen 9/11 Coming (Adobe Acrobat PDF format)
• Class notes: Warnings About Airplanes and Preparations Made to Prevent Such Attacks (Powerpoint format)

6d) White House and US Intelligence Agency Failures (Updated September 2005)

• Class notes: Failures that Led to 9/11, Part 1: Failures of the President (Powerpoint format)

7) A Review of Richard Clarke's Against All Enemies (Updated August 2005)

8) A Review of Bob Grahams's Intelligence Matters (Updated August 2005)

9) Governmental Obfuscation of 9/11-Related  Investigations (Updated September 2005)

10) Responses to 9/11: The USA PATRIOT Act, Executive Orders, and the Supreme Court (Robinson - “Freedom in an Era of Terror: A Critical Analysis of the USA PATRIOT Act") (Updated October 2005)

• Class notes: The USA PATRIOT Act (Powerpoint format)

11) President Bush's Executive Order to Declare and Detain Enemy Combatants, and the US Surpeme Court (Updated October 2005)

12) Other Domestic Reactions to 9/11 (Updated October 2005)

• Class notes: Other Domestic Reactions (Powerpoint format)

13) The Wars on Afghanistan and Iraq (Updated November 2005)

• Class notes: The Project for a New American Century (Powerpoint format)
• War, Aggression and State Crime; A Criminological Analysis of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq (Adobe Acrobat PDF format)
  By Ronald C. Kramer and Raymond J. Michalowski. The British Journal of Criminology Vol. 45, Iss. 4: p. 446.

14) Signs of a Possible Conspiracy: Many People Knew, Oil, Neo-Conservatives, Israel, and the Unexplained (Updated November 2005)

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