Hawzah News Agency - Dr. Barrett, a founding member of the Scientific Panel for the Investigation of 9/11, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Friday while commenting on a Newsweek report about a new explosive book on 9/11 that has revealed a US government-wide cover-up of Saudi complicity in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The 9/11 attacks were a series of strikes in the US which killed nearly 3,000 people and caused about $10 billion worth of property and infrastructure damage.
US officials assert that the attacks were carried out by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists – 15 of them were Saudi citizens -- but many experts have raised questions about the official account.
They believe that rogue elements within the US government, such as former Vice President Dick Cheney, orchestrated or at least encouraged the 9/11 attacks in order to accelerate the US war machine and advance the Zionist agenda.
In The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the Crimes of the War on Terror, John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski dismissed the official story that 9/11 was merely “a failure to connect the dots.” The book claimed that the CIA and Saudi Arabia conspired to keep 9/11 details secret.
“It’s a welcome development, and that we are getting some skeptical reportage in the mainstream media about 9/11 during the run-up to the holy, sacred anniversary. The 9/11 human sacrifice event has been turned into a sort of religious myth here in the United States and that has been done so that they can demonize the people who question the official story as heretics. And that way they can prevent any rational scrutiny of the story, because the official story falls apart instantly. It crumbles to dust under the most superficial scrutiny,” Dr. Barrett said.
“So it’s great that Newsweek is at least poking another couple of small holes in the story. The interesting part of this is that what it is about is that some FBI agents are now going on the record expressing their extreme anger at the fact that they were prevented from looking at the alleged 9/11 hijackers apparently by the CIA. These alleged hijackers who were Saudi agents, according to reports that I have seen, they were actually CIA agents. They were CIA assets from Saudi Arabia who were brought to the United States,” he stated.
“And the FBI saw that they were essentially sheep-dipped in al-Qaeda, that is that they were made to look like they have some kind of relationship with so-called al-Qaeda and the FBI wanted to investigate them, and they were told by higher-ups not to, hands off,” the analyst noted.
“And there were all sorts of reports about this. Congressman Curt Weldon made a big stink about this about ten years ago and then his career was destroyed as a result. So this is a sensitive topic. But it becomes even more sensitive when we go one step beyond what Newsweek is reporting and what this book is reporting and ask: ‘Why were higher-ups telling the FBI to stay away from these guys who would be later blamed as alleged 9/11 hijackers?’” he said.
“The reason for that they are giving is that well perhaps the CIA was interested in recruiting these guys, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi among them, and therefore it did not want the FBI getting in the way of their recruitment. But that is a baby-step towards the actual truth which is of course that the people who ordered the FBI not to investigate these patsies, did so precisely because these guys were being set up as patsies to be blamed for the September 11 events that they really had nothing to do with other than playing the role as patsies,” he stated.
“So this information does lead to the destruction of the official story of 9/11 and it leads towards the full truth that this was a false-flag event that the World Trade Center was blown up with explosives. It did not just fall down because of minor office fires kindled by kerosene,” Dr. Barrett argued.