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U.S Attorney General John Ashcroft addresses media at Camp David in Thurmondt, Virginia regarding the current investigation of the September 11th attacks. Ashcroft advises Congress to enforce stricter legislation against international terrorism. He does not take questions after his introduction. (9-16-2001)

U.S President George Bush holds a press conference while at Camp David in Thurmont, Maryland. Secretary of State, Colin Powell, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secertary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and U.S Attorney General John Ashcroft are also in attendance taking questions from the media representatives. Bush declares that the United States Government will deal with the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks with swift justice and will also hold accountable any entity who harbors them. Ashcroft states that there is a "high level of confidence" there were 19 hijackers involved. (9-15-2001) Note: George W. Bush states that Osama Bin Laden is the prime suspect for the 9/11 attacks and yet the FBI never holds Bin Laden accountable for the 9/11 attacks while embarking in the largest FBI investigation in U.S history code named PENTTBOM.

U.S Attorney General John Ashcraoft and FBI Director Robert Mueller address reporters regarding the 9/1 investigation. Ashcroft states that there are now a full list of potential suspects which are involved with the 91/1 attacks. Mueller also points out that the largest FBI investigation has now taken control of the 9/11 attacks. With 4,000 special agents within the FBI, and 3,000 support employees with 56 FBI field offices involved. 36,000 total leads have been received. Note: Mueller publicly names the investigation PENTTBOM for the first time. Also Ashcroft states there are now 19 names that were involved in the plane hijackings of September 11th. This is the first time the cockpit voice recorder is brought up, Mueller responds that they are still investigation what is being transcribed and what was recorded in the cockpit of United Airlines Flight 93. (9-14-2001)

U.S Attorney General John Ashcroft announces his plan to enact the Public Safety Officers benefits Act of 1976, which provides benefits to families of law enforcement officers, ambulance crew members and firemen who were killed in the September 11th attacks. The benefits act is authorized by U.S President George W. Bush. Ashcroft also reports that the investigation into the 9/11 attacks have now been given full attention to foreign entities which are helping to investigate the matter. The FBI leads hotline has received over 2,000 phone calls with 22,000 suggested tips. He also states that there were 18 hijackers involved, Mueller also repeats this number before media questioning and that the hijackers were also ticketed passengers. (9-13-2001) Note: Ashcroft states none of the black boxes have been found, although this would be contradicted by FDNY Nicholas de Masi and Honorary Firefighter Mike Bellone both claimed they had found three of the four boxes, and that Federal agents took them and told the two men not to mention having found them. This remarkable claim has been steadfastly denied by federal investigators however. (9-13-2001)

U.S Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller address the media regarding additional information from the public which will help the investigation. Mueller extrapolates on the objectives to identify the hijackers involved in the attacks and arrest those individuals who may have assisted them. Note: Mueller states that the FBI have reviewed the flight manifests of the hijacked planes, yet has not determined or publicly acknowledged who were involved in the attacks. Yet the FBI who were at Dulles Airport on the afternoon of September 11th were reviewing security camera tapes with Security Supervisor, Eric Gill, and knew each of the hijackers that were involved with the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 77. (9-12-2001)

U.S Attorney General John Ashcroft addresses the media about the 9/11 attacks. Norman Mineta also addresses the days events which has led to all aircraft takeoff to come under complete suspension. (9-11-2001)

In this episode Adam explain the attempted hijacking of a fifth flight on 9/11, that of United Airlines Flight 23. This flight was delayed then grounded due to the attacks taking place. Four Arab men, acting suspiciously, abandoned luggage containing box cutters, Korans and Al Qaeda training manuals, yet the FBI concluded nothing untoward was going on and they were never tracked.

Many 9/11 conspiracy theories centre around Israeli involvement, often portraying the event as principally a Zionist plot. In this episode Adam boils this issue down to what is definitely known, separating out fact from speculation.

In this episode Adam draws on the book The Road to Al-Qaeda to talk about the background of Al-Qaeda's leading figure, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri. The books author, Egyptian human rights lawyer Montasser Al-Zayyat, was a friend of al-Zawahiri and provides unique insight into his radicalisation and turn to violence. Adam and Richard then discuss al-Zawahiri's role in the 9/11 attacks and his relationship with the CIA and NATO as described by whistle-blowers such as Sibel Edmonds. Has he been an asset, witting or otherwise, all along?

In this episode Adam and Richard discuss the ostensible pilot of Flight 93, Lebanese hijacker Ziad Jarrah. Jarrah is often presented as the poster child for radicalisation, coming as he did from a very moderate Muslim family and only connecting with radicals when he moved to Hamburg, Germany. Indeed his family have never accepted he was a radical or involved with the 9/11 attacks. Is there any merit to their claims? Does a family connection to Israel's Mossad cast his story in a different light? Can we prove he was the man who crashed Flight 93 into the ground? These are the questions explored here.

In this episode Adam and Richard discuss Operation Northwoods, the US Armies plan to use false flag terror to initiate a war with Cuba. After running through the details, the influence of the Northwoods documents on conspiracy culture today is discussed.

In this episode Adam explains the background of 9/11's 20th hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui. We examine the FBI's failure to open his laptop after he was detained, asking whether this is normal procedure or an indication of something more sinister. We also examine what is know about the laptop's contents and whether it could have prevented the 9/11 attacks.

The episode was uploaded on October 23,2019. Journalist Sander Hicks has authored two books on September 11th, The Big Wedding and Slingshot to the Juggernaut. We were keen to talk to Sander as he covers aspects of 9/11 not often found elsewhere. In this interview he tells us the story of Dr. David Graham, the whistle-blower who, prior to 9/11, reported two of the hijackers to the FBI - before dying in the most suspicious of circumstances. He also tells us about Mohamed Atta's CIA connected friend Wolfgang Bohringer and the Deep State connections of the FBI's Carson Dunbar, the man at the center of the 1993 Trade Centre bombing.

Physics teacher David Chandler joins us to explain his work on the collapse of World Trade Centre's One, Two and Seven. Prior to the interview we collated the core criticisms we could find of David's work and we put them to him here.

This episode was published on October 7th, 2019. Welcome to the Darkened Hour! In this inaugural episode Adam and Richard discuss their plans for the podcast. They talk about their motivation for starting it, the philosophy underpinning it and what they're looking to achieve in the area of understanding September 11th and the wider geopolitical world.

After the electoral victory by the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), the leaders of the Algerian government, headed under pro-reform president Chadli Bendjedid, used the military to crackdown and arrest the leaders of the FIS which the witnessed the country descend into an 11 year civil war. By 1994, the country was on high alert and armed Islamic groups began terrorizing the French residents from the country. On December 24th 1994 Air France 8989, a plane taking off from Algeria and heading to France was hijacked by members of the the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA) at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers. The hijackers exclaimed they wanted to use the opportunity to demand the release of two Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) political party leaders, Abassi Madani and Ali Belhadj. However, the true nature of the hijacking was far more nefarious than what was stated by the hijackers.

On October 3rd 2015, A US Air Force C-130 gunship aimed at a medical facility managed by the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Doctors With Borders, and bombed it for 29 minutes striking it 211 times. When it was over, 44 people were killed and 33 wounded. Meanwhile US and Afghanistan officials immediately conducted their own investigations and concluded that due to "electrical error" the hospital was mistaken for a Taliban outpost. However MSF officials would prove otherwise, earning US officials that the hospital was at the certain location coordinates they contacted US military officials just days prior to the attack. Many condemned this incident and called it applicable to war crimes, including many leading international law centers. However the United States would reject these accusations and reprimanded a number of its servicemen for "negligence" but kept their ranks and none were charged for any serious offenses. It isn't just one of many incidents where the United States conducted war crimes and crimes of aggression and not held accountable.

When Babrak Kamal was appointed as the country’s third Democratic President backed by the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) for which Kamal was a primary leading member of, it was ultimately the Soviets who ran the country and it’s government. The Pakistan government under Zia ul-Haq had every reason to start military training for the Afghan rebel forces, he feared the communist bloc could very well collapse Afghanistan. With the fall of Kamal, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the voices of Afghanistan for a call of a jihad against the secular, communist bloc began. One of those who heard their call was Abdullah Anas, an Algerian scholar and ardent student of Abbassi Madani the founder of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) who rose against the tyranny against the Algerian Army when they interfered in a free election. Anas then travelled to Afghanistan and saw the need for a regulated system to welcome and train the influx of Muslims who wanted to help push back against the Soviet invaders. By 1988, Anas had spoke to Abdullah Azzam, an Islamic scholar, author and teacher based out of Jenin, Palestine, about the need to ensure Muslim help reached northern Afghanistan, and not just that of Western NGO's. Together they implemented the idea of a services bureau which serviced the incoming Arabs from around the world, the Maktab al-Khidamat (Afghan Services Bureau). However, as the Jihadists began to arrive from Egypt, the center, which was funded in part of a notable rich Saudi, Osama Bin Laden, witnessed a change in their training and teaching. Anas saw what was happening and thus left the bureau altogether only to see his dear friend, Azzam, backstabbed by the influence of Egyptians known as "takfiri" (apostates). Algeria was also witnessing a civil war between the government and the takfiri's under the Armed Islamic Group (GIA). Anas knew of the potential problems this could post, as he witnessed it in Afghanistan. In the end, the enemy was no longer clear in Anas eyes.

After the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, President Bush's White House Legal Counsel, facilitated and "legalized" the use of torture to extract information from "high valued detainees" (HVD) who were captured in Afghanistan and then relocated to CIA "black sites" where torture methods would be far away from prying eyes of the legal apparatuses. White House lawyers such as John Yoo and Assistant Attorney General Jay S. Bybee, head of the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice, signed in approval the full authorized use of torture, or otherwise known as, enhanced interrogation techniques. The "torture memos" are discussed in the language of the torture statute (18 U.S.C. §§ 2340–2340A) in detail in order to derive its definition of torture, states that "cruel, inhuman, or degrading" treatment is not torture according to that statute; and examines "possible defenses that would negate any claim that certain interrogation methods violate the statute". The CIA torture methods were not "unique" and in 1996 under a FOIA request, the Baltimore Sun, would uncover that the CIA had penned torture manuals which were prepared by the U.S. military and used between 1987 and 1991 for intelligence training courses at the U.S. Army School of the Americas. In this video i talk a bit about the outlines of the "torture memos" and the CIA "black sites" which employed the use of torture.

Zacarias Moussaoui is a French member of al-Qaeda who pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to conspiring to kill citizens of the United States as part of the September 11 attacks. Moussaoui was like most young Muslim youth, met with prejudice and racial tension while he grew up in the town of Narbonne, France. There was no religious education within the family. Moussaoui seeked to find peace within his young adult life, and after completing a master's degree at the South Bank University in London, he started visiting Brixton Mosque in 1995. French authorities began monitoring Moussaoui in 1996 when they observed him with Islamic extremists in London. In 1998, he attended the Khalden training camp in Afghanistan, allegedly returning the next year as well. He was also suspected of attending a very high level Al Qaeda summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in January of 2000. It was here he was allegedly selected to take part in the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks. On February 23rd 2001, Zacarias Moussaoui lands at O’ Haire Airport in Chicago. Where he begins attending the Masjid al-Salaam mosque in Norman, Oklahoma. However, FBI agents in Minneapolis halted Moussaoui's plans, and tried to secure FISA warrant to search his personal belongings and what was in the hotel room he stayed in. To which the agent's request were denied. Moussaoui would later be convicted for his role in the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, per his own admissions. Yet in the biggest surprise of all, Osama Bin Laden, just a mere few months after Moussaoui's sentencing, made a statement which put a wrench in the story regarding Zacarias Moussaoui. Some information used in this video is based off the book "I Heard You Were Going On Jihad" written by Mitchell Gray.

In the latest court proceedings involving the 9/11 Guantanamo Bay trial of Khalid Sheikh Muhammed, Ammar al-Baluchi, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Mustafa al-Hawsawi and Walid bin Attash, Baluchi's lawyer, Jay Connell, has brought evidence that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), were involved with the interrogation process of the Central Intelligence Agency program the "Rendition, Detention & Interrogation: (RDI). In 2019, one of the FBI agents, FBI Special Agent Adam Drucker, involved in the “clean team” interviews revealed he had collaborated extensively with the CIA in the RDI torture program, sending CIA black site operatives hundreds of questions to ask the detainees. Guantanamo Bay detainee lawyers such as Connel, Alka Pradhan, Rita Radostitz, counsel for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and Walter Ruiz, counsel for Mustafa al Hawsawi, are now asking for more evidence regarding just how much more "involved" the FBI were in the RDI program itself, while also pushing for a definitive trial date.

On September 18, 2002, Ron Wyden, panel member of the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001, interviews Eleanor Hill, Staff Director of the Joint Inquiry. Wyden remarks that analysts from the intelligence community had a sizeable catalogue regarding Bin Laden's interest in hijacking planes and crashing them intentionally into sensitive targets, and he asks Hill about what was the response of the intelligence community regarding this and why they didn't make this a priority since 1994. I offer some insights during the interview.

The 2008 Mumbai attacks were a series of terrorist attacks that took place on November 26th to 29th 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamist terrorist organisation from Pakistan, carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai. The Government of India stated that the attackers came from Pakistan, and their controllers were in Pakistan. The sole survivor of the terrorist group, Ajmal Kasab, told the police that they wanted to replicate the Marriott hotel attack in Islamabad, and reduce the Taj Hotel to rubble, replicating the 11 September attacks in US. The attacks lasted 3 days, where 8 of the attacks occurred in South Mumbai: at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the Oberoi Trident, the Taj Palace & Tower, the Leopold Cafe, the Cama Hospital, the Nariman House, the Metro Cinema and in a lane behind the Times of India building and St. Xavier's College. There were a high number of casualties in which 175 people were killed and 310 injured from the shootings and bombings of the ten people involved in the attacks. In this video, i outline the general details of who was involved, the planning and stages of the attacks as i read from different documents and files, some which will be provided below. Today is the thirteenth anniversary of those deadly attacks.

On February 14th 1945, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Saud Arabian King Abdulaziz ibn Abdul Rahman Al Saud met for the first time while docked at the Great Bitter Lake along the Suez Canal. The ship was beside other war cruisers and destroyers with an air cap overhead of fighter planes to show the well natured leader Ibn Saud the might of the American military. The discussion entailed the King’s unwavering support for Jews into Palestine. However, this relationship, tentative at best, became a full fledged mutual dependance with the Saudis using the strength of the US military to protect and invade arab adversaries while the US began using the Kingdom to regulate the oil market. Over the following years, the Saudis would invest billions of dollars into the American businesses, military industrial complex and congressional districts to try and persuade the government to endorse legislation which would also favor them over the competing Israelis. While also purchasing the latest in American military grade weaponry. But what was the main topic for the Kingdom? Palestine. The race between the Saudis and Israel lobby's began, and the soul of the United States would be sold to the highest bidder. In which to the current day, the Saudi Lobby would become the prime defacto monetary power which would highly influence our nation, leading many to believe that our democracy is nothing but a dream.

Paul Wolfowitz is an American political scientist and diplomat who served as the State Department Director of Policy Planning under Reagan, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense under President George H.W. Bush and Deputy Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush. He is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also one of the primary co signers of the neoconservative think-tank, Project for the New American Century which called for the United States to be the "preeminent power" in the Middle East. While also authoring the "Wolfowitz Doctrine", in which the doctrine announces the US status as the world’s only remaining superpower following the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War and how to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival. Wolfowitz would also be the primary architect of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, following the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, in which over 1.5 million Iraqi's would be killed on the falsehoods the country had involvement with Al Qaeda under Osama Bin Laden and that the country possessed illegal chemical or biological weapons.