False Flag 911: How Bush, Cheney and the Saudis Created the Post-911 World

Review and notes

From the flight deck of a Boeing 767, airline captain Philip Marshall pulls back the veil of deception surrounding the 911 attacks. In gripping, authoritative detail he recreates the hijacked flights, including all their technical challenges, exploding the myths behind official accounts of pilot training and tactical planning. His finding: the mission could not have been carried out by any known terrorist group. Explaining for the first time the hijackers’ mysterious trips to Las Vegas, where and how they could have been trained, and the document that actually states a political motive for the attacks, he finds abundant evidence implicating a nexus of Saudi officials, American contractors and, most unthinkably, members of the Bush administration. Analyzing 911 in terms of its original tactical plan, Marshall concludes that the attack partially failed, and that its failures could ultimately serve to bring the creators of the Post 911 World to light, if not to justice.

Philip Marshall is a veteran airline pilot flying the same widebody Boeing jets that were converted into deadly attack planes on September 11th. His book stands apart from, and above, every other book on the subject of 911.

FALSE FLAG 911 is not another "grassy knoll" book or an obsessive attempt to pry fragments of conspiracy out of obscure details. Marshall details the flying done by the hijacker pilots on that day (something the 911 Commission Report does not attempt to do, by the way), and finds that it couldn't have been accomplished without repeated training on the actual airliners -- training far beyond what they are known to have received.

But Marshall is not just a veteran pilot -- he's also a pilot who started out, in his 20s, flying covert missions for Vice President Bush/Oliver North's Iran-Contra scheme. Thus he became all too well acquainted with "black operations" -- the shadow world of secret quasi-official activities. In fact, as he writes in the book, he's the only pilot from that operation who wasn't killed shortly thereafter -- perhaps because his work was subcontracted and just under the principals' radar.

Finally, to my knowledge, Marshall is the first author to look at 911 from the point of view of its tactical planners rather than from our point of view as victims. We have been fixated -- understandably -- on the losses we suffered. But by turning the perspective around, Marshall discovers that the planners failed to achieve perhaps their most important mission objective (beyond the mere failure of United 93). This failure in turn exposes the odd inaction of key individuals before, during and after the events. For example, had air operations taken place as intended, all targets would have been hit nearly simultaneously. By the time the President, compassionately concerned with the progress of elementary school students, could order a response, operations would have been over. But that's not how it happened, and everything unravels from there.

Many 911 theories involve vast and complex conspiracies that would have required the active cooperation and continued silence of many different players; any such plots should have come apart by now, under their own weight. By comparison, Marshall's analysis is elegant, direct and chillingly realistic, probably because it's based on his experience -- experience as a pilot, and experience as a covert operator. In addition, it's based on the official reports, rather than on a theory that would require these to have been faked.

FALSE FLAG 911 respects your mind, and, in turn, earns your respect. This should prove to be the breakthrough book on 911.

On behalf of airline employees everywhere, deepest thanks go to Captain Marshall for correcting distortions in the 911 Commission's Final Report. By putting the events of 911 in proper order, using official government reports, Marshall makes it clear that George W.
Bush knew the nation was under attack before he entered that second-grade classroom. This book shows at least three areas where an honest inquiry should be able to find a smoking gun and connect it to warmongers who wanted to find an opening to invade Iraq. One of
Marshall's key contributions at the beginning of the book is to explain in detail the tactical plan of 911, which in turn explains why Bush never responded in a competent manner. A line has been crossed and the time has come for a real inquiry, to be followed by prosecutions. Hats off to a wonderful book.