9/11 Quiz

(from our “Forever Vigilant” 9/11 Mailer)

(See the quiz answers below)

1 - Project for a New American Century (PNAC), a conservative think tank whose members include Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Richard Perle, release a paper in September of 2000 stating that its goals could be more quickly achieved if which of the following were to occur?
a) “…a landslide win for the Bush/Cheney ticket in the 2000 election.”
b) “…we put together the most powerful team of lobby- ists the world has ever seen.”
c) “…a better relationship is built with Saddam Hussein.”
d) “…some catastrophic and catalyzing event- like a new Pearl Harbor.”

2 - Who did President Bush place in charge of anti-terrorism training and military preparedness on May 8, 2001?
a) Major General Paul Eaton
b) Dick Cheney
c) General George Casey
d) Colin Powell

3 - The FBI’s top Al Queda investigator, John O’Neill, resigned in July 2001 in protest over what?
a) His pay
b) The obstruction of terrorist investigations
c) Meddling from Democratic senators

4 - What was the title of the high-level CIA brief given to President Bush at his Crawford, Texas ranch on August 6, 2001?
a) Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the US
b) The Security Failures of The Clinton Administration
c) Saddam Hussein’s Attempts to Acquire Nuclear Weapons

5 - When President Bush stayed at the Colony Beach and Tennis Resort at Longboat Key, Florida on the night of September 10, 2001, what special security measure was taken?
a) Surface-to-air missiles were placed on the roof
b) 16 German shepherds patrolled the hallways
c) Two Secret Service agents slept in the president’s room
d) No special measures were taken

6 - According to the president, what was the first thing he said upon learning of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center?
a) “Oh those poor people!”
b) “There’s one terrible pilot.”
c) “This could be terrorists.”
d) “How could this have happened?”

7 - The multiple war games and exercises simulating hijackings and placing false blips on FAA radar screens conducted prior to and during the attacks of 9/11 — which enabled the terrorists to fly completely unencumbered by the US military — were coordinated and managed by whom?
a) Rear Admiral David L. Brewer
b) General T. Michael Moseley
c) Air Force General Richard B. Meyers
d) Dick Cheney
e) Colin Powell
f) Bill O’Reilly

8 - Who was the first chairman appointed to lead the 9/11 Commission?
a) Henry Kissinger
b) John Bolton
c) Rudy Guillani
d) Jimmy Carter

9 - President Bush and Vice President Cheney agreed to meet with the 9/11 Commission only under which of the following conditions?
a) They not be placed under oath
b) They appear only together
c) No verbatim records of the discussion be kept
d) All of the above

10 - Osama bin Laden has not been formally indicted and charged in connection with 9/11 because the FBI lacks the evidence to do so.
a) True
b) False

Quiz Answers

1-D, 2-B, 3-B, 4-A, 5-A, 6-B, 7-D, 8-A, 9-D, 10-A

Expanded answers researched by Fred Burks of WantToKnow.info:

1 - BBC News, 2/14/2007,   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/conspiracy_files/6338551.stm - See September 2000 section, "An American think tank, the Project for the New American Century, publishes a report called Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century. The report advocates the transformation of the US military, making it better able to support their aspiration for an active, internationalist US foreign policy. But, the authors acknowledge: "the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbour."

2 - CNN, 5/16/2002,http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/05/15/bush.sept.11/ "It was in May 2001, for example, that Bush asked Vice President Dick Cheney to lead an administration task force to assess the country's counter-terrorism effort."

White House website, 5/8/2001, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/05/20010508.html "Therefore, I have asked Vice President Cheney to oversee the development of a coordinated national effort so that we may do the very best possible job of protecting our people from catastrophic harm. I have also asked Joe Allbaugh, the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to create an Office of National Preparedness. This Office will be responsible for implementing the results of those parts of the national effort overseen by Vice President Cheney that deal with consequence management. Specifically it will coordinate all Federal programs dealing with weapons of mass destruction consequence management within the Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Justice, and Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other federal agencies. The Office of National Preparedness will work closely with state and local governments to ensure their planning, training, and equipment needs are addressed."

3 - New Yorker, 1/14/2002, http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg#oneill "After two months in Yemen, O'Neill came home feeling that he was fighting the counter-terrorism battle without support from his own government. He had made some progress in gaining access to evidence, but so far the investigation had been a failure. Concerned about continuing threats against the remaining F.B.I. investigators, he tried to return in January of 2001. Bodine denied his application to re-enter the country. She refuses to discuss that decision."

4 - CNN, 4/10/2004, http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/10/august6.memo, "Transcript: Bin Laden determined to strike in US"

5 - Sarasota Herald Tribune, 9/10/2007, http://www.WantToKnow.info/020910heraldtribune.surfacetoairmissiles "At the Colony, the Secret Service was getting everything secured for when the president arrived on Sept. 10. That included snipers and surface-to-air missiles on the roof and the Coast Guard patrolling just offshore."

6 - CNN, 12/4/01, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/04/se.04.html,"Well, Jordan ... you're not going to believe what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida. ... And I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on, and I use to fly myself, and I said, 'There's one terrible pilot.'"

The Guardian (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers), 12/5/2001, http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,612355,00.html, "President George Bush added a new and bizarre twist last night to the folklore surrounding September 11 when he revealed his initial reaction to the first plane hitting the World Trade Centre. In answer to a question from an eight-year-old in Florida, he said his first thought was: 'There's one terrible pilot.'"

7 - Congressional Testimony by Pentagon Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Richard Myers, 3/11/05,  http://www.WantToKnow.info/050317wargames911, "[The wargames] enhanced our ability to respond, given that NORAD didn't have the overall responsibility for responding to the attacks that day."

Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_exercises_scheduled_for_September_11%2C_2001 

Former Los Angeles Police Detective Mike Ruppert on his website http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/011805_simplify_case.shtml

8 - New York Times, 11/27/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/27/politics/27CND-BUSH.html,"Kissinger to Lead 9/11 Inquiry"

CNN, 11/27/02 - http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0211/27/se.02.html

9 - Los Angeles Times, 10/19/2004, http://www.WantToKnow.info/cia911secret, "The president fought against the creation of the Sept. 11 commission, for example, agreeing only after enormous political pressure was applied by a grass-roots movement led by the families of those slain. And then Bush refused to testify to the commission under oath, or on the record. Instead he deigned only to chat with the commission members, with Vice President Dick Cheney present, in a White House meeting in which commission members were not allowed to take notes. All in all, strange behavior for a man who seeks reelection to the top office in the land based on his handling of the so-called war on terror."

10 - FBI website, http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm, "USAMA BIN LADEN IS WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE AUGUST 7, 1998, BOMBINGS OF THE UNITED STATES EMBASSIES IN DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA, AND NAIROBI, KENYA. THESE ATTACKS KILLED OVER 200 PEOPLE. IN ADDITION, BIN LADEN IS A SUSPECT IN OTHER TERRORIST ATTACKS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD." No mention is made of bin Laden's connection to 9/11

Washington Post, 8/28/2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/27/AR2006082700687.html, "Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is a longtime and prominent member of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list, which notes his role as the suspected mastermind of the deadly U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa on Aug. 7, 1998. But another more infamous date -- Sept. 11, 2001 -- is nowhere to be found on the same FBI notice. The curious omission underscores the Justice Department's decision, so far, to not seek formal criminal charges against bin Laden for approving al-Qaeda's most notorious and successful terrorist attack."