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Ridgeway, Washington correspondent for the Village Voice, finds no hidden plot behind the 9/11 terrorist attack. Instead, he cites the open secret of a general and long-standing tendency to put American corporate interest ahead of the interest of citizens. Ridgeway focuses on five key questions: why the government couldn't stop the attack, why it didn't protect us, why we were unaware of plans for the attack, how U.S. "allies" abetted the attack, and why the 9/11 Commission couldn't get at the truth. In separate chapters, Ridgeway examines the political and economic issues behind the questions and offers a grim look at the actions and inactions of the Bush administration, which left the nation vulnerable to the terrorist attack, unwilling or unable to act on intelligence that raised the possibility of such an attack, and still vulnerable to troubling policies and attitudes. The placing of airline profitability above public safety, the coziness existing between regulators and the airlines, and U.S and Middle Eastern funding of Islamic extremists are all elements inadequately explored by the 9/11 Commission, according to Ridgeway. Vanessa Bush
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A co-publication of Seven Stories Press and Akashic Books.

With the passage of time, an ever-growing number of indisputable facts are pointing to very serious breaches of integrity and an unsettling lack of transparency surrounding the motivations of key individuals and agencies with distinct roles in events leading up to and following that fateful morning.

In The Five Unanswered Questions About 9/11, investigative reporter James Ridgeway pinpoints five glaring black holes of information surrounding 9/11:

1. The initial government response: Why was Cheney running the country on 9/11? Where was Donald Rumsfeld, commander of the US armed forces? Why didn't American Airlines immediately alert the FAA headquarters and the military at 8:20 when the airline first learned from flight attendants onboard that a hijack was underway?
2. The ignorance of the FBI and CIA: With Al-Qaeda firmly on the radar for years, why were they unable to see this coming?
3. The failings of the FBI's translation department: Why wasn't the Bureau set up to decipher the transmissions within its grasp?
4. The role of Pakistani secret intelligence: As the attacks were planned in Afghanistan, who was watching and who was invested?
5. The 9/11 Commission's investigation: Why weren't even the most obvious questions addressed?

Currently the Washington correspondent for The Village Voice, James Ridgeway has authored over 15 books and co-directed the films Blood in the Face and Feed. He has also written for Harper's Magazine, Economist, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The New Republic, Parade, Ramparts, and The Wall Street Journal.

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16 of 31 people found the following review helpful: Stand Down, August 8, 2006 Reviewer: Dean Jackson "9/11 Truth Movement" (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews    Samples taken from WTC steel now confirm (soon to be released by Professor Steven Jones of BYU and five other universities) Thermate was used in the WTC Towers to take them down. This meshes with the global collapse times of both Towers (and 7 WTC) and the eyewitness reports that day from firefighters, police, tenants and workers who said bombs were in the Towers. Not only do we have dispicable people in government who, of course, knew this all along, but the U.S. media knew it too. Soon both will be out of employment.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful: Challenge to the Conventional Wisdom, April 15, 2006 Reviewer: Charles J. Rector (Woodstock, IL United States) - See all my reviews    This is a well researched and strongly documented book that raises serious questions. It makes a convincing case as to the incompetence and neglect by the Bush Administration and by several key agencies such as the CIA, FAA & FBI. Ridgeway points ou that there are several unanswered questions concerning 9/11. Why was nobody in the Federal government held accountable for the tragedy? Why did the 9/11 Commission fail so completely in doing its job? For a work that is only 180 pages long, this book packs a wallop.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful: raises good questions, January 11, 2006 Reviewer: SafeCop "Joe P." (NJ) - See all my reviews At the very least this book raises some good questions. It is well researched, only 180 pages and seems to be well documented. Follow up research is necessary but it seems to expose incompetence and neglect on the part of the FBI, CIA and the Administration.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful: Cover-up At The Highest Level, January 2, 2006 Reviewer: Daniel E. Garland (Tucson, Arizona United States) - See all my reviews    James Ridgeway brings up some very interesting questions concerning 9/11 that every American should address--the Bush-Saudi connection, the FBI informant who had connections to two of the hijackers, and why nobody in the government was held accountable for this tragedy. These are just a few of the areas that should raise the question, "Who was really responsible"??

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