New York Magazine: "Leaked 9/11 Texts a Gold Mine for Historians, Truthers, Voyeurs"

Leaked 9/11 Texts a Gold Mine for Historians, Truthers, Voyeurs
11/25/09 at 11:43 AM

Throughout the day today, the website Wikileaks will be publishing over half a million messages sent from text pagers on 9/11. According to the website, they range "from Pentagon and New York Police Department exchanges, to computers reporting faults to their operators as the World Trade Center collapsed." It's a little arduous sifting through all the computer gibberish in the documents, but the information contained within can be fascinating. CBS News's Dean McCullagh found messages discussing an evacuation to Mount Weather, "the government's sort-of secret bunker buried under the Virginia mountains west of Washington, D.C." He finds another that warned of a threat to Air Force One, and even one that seemed to celebrate the death of a disliked business executive onboard one of the doomed flights. Other texts refer to a bomb going off in the World Trade Center and military planes forcing down a commercial jet, which, as McCullagh points out, are sure to pique the interest of 9/11 Truthers.

Many other messages are personal, with no bearing on history. Just browsing ourselves, we found one that reads, "the coast is clear,lets go get some indian food right now," and another saying, "Please tell us you drove. Dad just called me about what is going on in the world, very scarey!" Another one highlighted by Wikileaks reads, "Honey wanted to tell you how much i love you. I was alittle worried.I Don’t want to lose you now that I got you back. You mean everything to me. You have my whole heart and life. Ilove you so much."

Obviously, the release of these messages raises questions about privacy. How did Wikileaks get all these texts in the first place? McCullagh says that they were either illegally copied from the archives of the pager companies and then shared with Wikileaks, or, more likely, obtained through "over-the-air interception" using technology which can be be both cheap and readily available. Kind of disturbing, no? Still, though reading these private, sometimes intimate communications might be distasteful or even repulsive to some, the voyeuristic impulse is also hard to resist.

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"military planes forcing down a commercial jet"

Does anyone know the text messages they're referring to? I haven't been able to get to the wikileaks site.

Edit: Never mind. I can get there now...

From here...

2001-09-12 02:42:32 Skytel [005507202] A ALPHA flashnet@intelcenter.com|FlashNet Event|Osama bin Laden says he has no hand in NYC/DC attacks but supports them because they constitute a reaction of oppressed people against atrocities of the cruel.

http://www.intelcenter.com/

From here...

2001-09-12 02:17:44 Arch [2009091] A ALPHA ies that harbors them..>PENTAGON: Death toll may be as high as 800 where hijacked airliner crashed..>PA: No survivors found at crash of fourth hijacked jetliner..>D.C.: U.S. officials pursue case linking Osama bin Laden to today

Edit: Here's what I'm doing... I have written down the following keywords, and am going through the pages...

"Atta, hijack, norad, military, plane, laden, binladen, bin laden, bush, cheney, rumsfeld, myers, clarke, rice, mineta, secret service, sheikh, iraq, pakistan, israel, saudi, saudi arabia, denial, deny, sheikh, terror, attack, exercise, protocol, intercept, bomb, explosion"


Do these people deserve to know how and why their loved ones were murdered? The facts speak for themselves.

Off Topic - BIGGEST THING EVER?

Things will change because of this....

http://tvnz.co.nz/close-up/terrorist-attacks-controlled-demolitions-3198...

This is the top daily current affairs show in NZ, this is HUGE!

Kind regards John

9/11 24/7 UNTIL JUSTICE!!
www.truthaction.org.au

Excellent!

Crikey, that was great! It's a sad commentary on the state of the media that a fair, honest interview such as this is an occasion for amazement. I hope the host is able to withstand whatever backlash may be directed his way.

There's a quicker way...

Hi Jon,

There's a quicker way, if you save all these files to one folder (a program could do this for you), you can search for each keyword inside all of the files at once!
On a Window$ machine, just hit F3 when your in the folder "search all files and folders" then specify your keyword in the second text box "containing the text"

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
DJDaveMark


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References to bombs

I'm not sure if I'm capturing these entries correctly (re: form), but here are some references to bombs in the pager leaks:

Arch [0912340] B ALPHA Bomb Scare, ND, 700 W. 40TH Male caller stated a bomb in the bldg, set to go of at 0815. 7811 notified.
2001-09-11 06:56:48 Skytel

[003252015] D ALPHA BOMB DETINATED IN WORLD TRADE CTR. PLS GET BACK TO MIKE BRADY W/A QUICK ASSESSMENT OF YOUR AREAS AND CONTACT US IF ANYTHING IS NEEDED AT 212-647-2345.
2001-09-11 08:50:52

{0576476} 1 1200 world trade ctr bombed Kim Bauder
2001-09-11 09:06:11

[005258168] C ALPHA babe its a bomb we are evacuating the city could be a target 2 planes so far DAN PEREZ
2001-09-11 09:11:37 Skytel

[004404972] D ALPHA Sjalikha@comdisco.com|To Martin and JD: A plane has crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers and it appears a bom|To Martin and JD: A plane has crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers and it appears a bomb has gone
2001-09-11 09:19:42 Skytel [005330530]

[005328903] B ALPHA Kristi.Hoepner@wcom.com||The world trade center got bombed - turn the news on.... (8
2001-09-11 09:26:46 Skytel

2001-09-11 09:28:39 Skytel [005436209] A ALPHA From:Ruth Powell/CampusA2/TotalSystem Subject:NOHEADER Body: From: Ruth Powell The world trade center was just bombed
2001-09-11 09:28:39 Skytel

Must sort these

2001-09-11 09:31:50 Arch [1092970] C ALPHA N.Y.C. TKT#191100488 - WTC HAS BEEN HIT BY AN AIRPLANE AND A BOMB.

Obviously, some messages will be based on bad information and confusion. But it will be difficult to know exactly which messages are those. I wonder if the people who sent the messages can be identified and contacted?

reports coming in after the towers destruct

will probably have the most relevant info re: planted explosives- some/most of the earlier reports are going to be related to the explosions from the plane crashes

http://911reports.com
http://www.historycommons.org

Yup.


Do these people deserve to know how and why their loved ones were murdered? The facts speak for themselves.

Ask Jack

Why doesn't someone in the 9/11 Truth Movement ask former USA Today reporter Jack Kelley who in the FBI told him bombs took down the towers on the morning pf 9/11.

Jack Kelley was fired from USA Today for allegedly lying about a report he did. As we in the 9/11 Truth Movement know, reporters lying about their work is par for the course, so Jack's firing, I believe, was because he inconveniently told the truth on 9/11 before he was told not to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-npAbNl2ihY

Dean Jackson/Editor-in-Chief DNotice.org
Washington, DC

He also mentioned

He also mentioned the threats made by U.S. representatives against the Taliban only weeks earlier--but gets the context wrong. He shows no awareness of the last-ditch attempts to get the Taliban to agree to the UNOCAL pipeline project. Instead, he says the warning was meant to deter 'any more of these attacks.' But that only opened another can of worms: if the Bush administration was concerned enough to issue such warnings to the Taliban, why was the U.S. so wide open and defenseless the day of the attacks?

Interesting--Kelley is clearly, in this interview, attempting to carry the water for Islamophobe hawks. But in the process, he let too much slip, and so may have come to be seen as a liability.

"Kind of disturbing, no?"

"Kind of disturbing, no? Still, though reading these private, sometimes intimate communications might be distasteful or even repulsive to some, the voyeuristic impulse is also hard to resist."

What is disturbing is that this information was being collected in the first place without callers' knowedge. Wikileaks has performed a great public service, in that it has released this information to the general public, and has thus restored to a small extent the balance of power from the feds to the people, since knowledge is indeed power. Feds should not have exclusive rights to this information, as long as it is being collected.

If Government (employer) Provided Pagers...

then NONE of those text communications would be "private" in the first place.
Government equipment +government time = public information

Pentagon reference

"CBS News's Dean McCullagh found messages discussing an evacuation to Mount Weather, "the government's sort-of secret bunker buried under the Virginia mountains west of Washington, D.C."

Here's an early reference to Pentagon Weather. It looked like a curious and interesting passage, enough so for me to include it in a short list of communications I posted at OpEdNews, even though there was no specific 9-11 reference.

2001-09-11 08:51:31 Skytel [007030790] B ALPHA Andrew.Terzakis@pentagon.af.mil|Please call Pentagon Weather|UNCLASSIFIED Please call Pentagon Weather.......reference 1030 Meeting.....703-695-0406 ANDREW J. TERZAKIS, Lt Col, USAF D

THIS IS HUGE!...the Pentagon evacuation to Mount Weather?

The mesage about an evacuation of or the communicationswith the Pentagon to Mount Weather at...08:51:31...is HUGE...if true. This means that the the Pentagon may have been aware of the attacks on a "NATIONAL BASIS" well BEFORE the explosions that were reported there at 09:30 or 09:32...and then the subsequent arrival of, and whatever the behavior? was, of an air vehicle at 09:38-ish.

This invigorates the line of questioning about why the Penatgon wasn't evacuated on time...AND...the lines of questioning about what Rummie and Cheney were aware of...when they were aware of it...and what roles that they were played after this information was circulating about the Pentagon.

I'm presuming that there was more informatiuon about a possible evacuation provided by the reporter mentioned and that this discovery fits into that story line.

9/11 TRUTH for World PEACE

Robin Hordon
Kingston, WA

Sorry, likely about weather

I did a search on the phone number and the name in that message and they refer to two meteorology experts, so they are most likely talking about weather-related issues, not Mount Weather.

Here's an interesting one

"2001-09-11 10:52:42 Arch [0951805] D ALPHA Hartman|FYI: State Dept issued Friday a WW alert about possible threats from Osama bin Laden. Joann ||107 "

Has anyone ever heard about this alert supposedly issued by the State Dept on what would have been Friday, Sept 7?

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/0...


Do these people deserve to know how and why their loved ones were murdered? The facts speak for themselves.

WTC 7 collapse warning

2001-09-11 16:40:35 Skytel [0001450] C ALPHA EVERYONE PLZ EVACUATE AREA OF W.T.C. NEAR 7 W.T.C. POSSOBILITY OF COLLAPSE

2001-09-11 16:40:35 Skytel [0001447] B ALPHA EVERYONE PLZ EVACUATE AREA OF W.T.C. NEAR 7 W.T.C. POSSOBILITY OF COLLAPSE

Very suspect pages

These were the only pages sent by these two IDs, and likely point to people with foreknowledge of the collapse.

I am officially sick of the word 'truther'

I noticed how the headline made a distinction between "historians" and "truthers."

As if to imply that on the one hand, there are the sane, sober historians who do careful research, and on the other hand, there are those got-dang conspiracy theorists who have this desperate psychological need to believe in a conspiracy and who will seize upon any morsel that fits our conclusion while ignoring anything that doesn't.

We ARE historians. We are 9/11 researchers. We are not some cult.

I agree

they can shove their denigrating pejorative labels where the sun don't shine

This may or may not be something..

2001-09-11 07:12:54 Metrocall [0122329] C ALPHA shot down; Pentagon confirms losing contact with unmanned craft. Details to come. For complete coverage of this story visit: http://www.CNN.com or AOL Keyword: CNN CNN Headline News has changed everything but its name. Visit us online at http://cnn