Zelikow: Catastrophic Terrorism: Elements of a National Policy

In the November-December 1998 issue of Foreign Affairs, Zelikow co-authored an article entitled: Catastrophic Terrorism: Elements of a National Policy. You can download it here.

In it, the authors speculated that if the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center had succeeded:

"The resulting horror and chaos would have exceeded our ability to describe it. Such an act of catastrophic terrorism would be a watershed event in American history.

It could involve loss of life and property unprecedented in peacetime and undermine America’s fundamental sense of security, as did the Soviet atomic bomb test in 1949.

Like Pearl Harbor, the event would divide our past and future into a before and after. The United States might respond with draconian measures scaling back civil liberties, allowing wider surveillance of citizens, detention of suspects and use of deadly force.

More violence could follow, either future terrorist attacks or U.S. counterattacks. Belatedly, Americans would judge their leaders negligent for not addressing terrorism more urgently."

In "Rise of the Vulcans" (Viking, 2004), James Mann reports that when Richard Haass, a senior aide to Secretary of State Colin Powell and the director of policy planning at the State Department, drafted for the administration an overview of America’s national security strategy following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Dr. Rice, the national security advisor, "ordered that the document be completely rewritten."

She thought the Bush administration needed something bolder, something that would represent a more dramatic break with the ideas of the past. Rice turned the writing over to her old colleague, University of Virginia Professor Philip Zelikow."

Written by Zelikow, this document, issued on September 17, 2002, is recognized as a significant document in the Bush administration doctrine of preemptive war.

Able Danger and 9/11 Commission Cover-Up

This is a portion of an important interview with Intelligence Officer Anthony Shaffer. He made a protected disclosure to the 9/11 Commission staff director, Philip D. Zelikow. Shaffer was undercover in Afghanistan in October 2003 regarding the existence of the ABLE DANGER program that had identified alleged 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta and three other al-Qaeda operatives operating in the United States prior to 9/11.

Who is Philip Zelikow? And Why is He Important to 9/11 Truth?

This is a two part video profiling Philip Zelikow - appointed by George W. Bush to head the 9/11 Investigation. Zelikow orchestrated and controlled the "official findings" of the 9/11 Commission Report:

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Part 2



Here are a few questions ignored, not yet answered nor fully explained by Philip Zelikow's "Official 9/11 Commission Report:"

WTC 7:

* Symmetrical, complete destruction of forty-seven-story steel-frame into its own footprint
* Destruction took what should have been the path of greatest resistance
* The building’s roofline descended at free-fall acceleration for more than 100 feet as admitted (under pressure) by NIST’s top WTC engineer, and near free-fall throughout the main period of destruction
* Sudden onset
* Massive volume of expanding pyroclastic-like dust clouds
* Sounds of explosions at ground floor—a full second before downward movement began
* Tons of molten metal found in rubble pile by demolition and cleanup workers
* Chemical signature of thermite (an incendiary) found in slag and dust samples
* Rapid oxidation, sulfidation, intergranular melting, even partial evaporation of the steel—documented by FEMA but never explained by any official body

TWIN TOWERS:

* Why were virtually no floors found at the base of either Twin Tower? There were originally 110 floors – each of them one acre in size.
* What was the energy source, and through what mechanism was it applied, that pulverized 400,000 cubic yards of concrete into a fine powder that blanketed Manhattan?
* Why did more than 100 FDNY first responders describe sounds of explosions and flashes of light at the onset of destruction?
* How were massive structural steel members hurled from the Twin Towers at 70 mph – some landing 600 feet away?
* Given that open-air jet fuel fires and normal office fire burn at a maximum temperature of about 1,500° F, and that steel doesn’t melt until about 2,700° F, what thermal energy source produced the tons of molten metal seen in the rubble of the Twin Towers and Building 7?
* How did tons of highly advanced “nanothermite,” developed in US national laboratories, and found in all of the dust samples, get into the Twin Towers?

And we want to know!

Peter Dale Scott

Peter Dale Scott speaks at the 9/11 Truth Conference, Vancouver: