By Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet.org
September 17, 2026
The events of September 11, 2001, are not a thing of the past. They have direct repercussions in the wars in Ukraine, Palestine, and Iran. It is possible to mistake the enemy and remain fixed, admiring, on a power that sows chaos and misery. But ignoring the truth only leads to being plunged, in turn, into chaos and misery oneself.
The 25th commemoration of the events of September 11, 2001, gave rise, in Europe, to the tireless repetition of the inconsistencies that Atlanticist propaganda has been pouring out since these attacks.
If we persist in lying, always lying, and lying again, even 25 years later, it's because the stakes remain the same: massacres continue in Ukraine, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Iran. And we cannot understand them without connecting them to what happened that day.
Today, hundreds of millions of people are convinced that the three towers of the World Trade Center did not collapse under the impact of two airliners and that no planes struck the Pentagon. But far fewer admit, as I demonstrated at the time, that these attacks were nothing more than a staged event designed to cover up a coup d'état.
However, President Bush was indeed removed from office at 9:35 a.m. by his counterterrorism advisor, Richard Clarke [1]. The White House was completely evacuated. All members of Congress, senators and representatives, as well as some of their staff, were taken by the Secret Service to the Greenbrier bunker, 40 kilometers from Washington. "For their safety," they were locked inside.
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For a few hours, a mysterious "continuity government" assumed the reality of power. It had been created by President Dwight Eisenhower during the Cold War [2]. But according to the presidential decree at the time, it should only have been activated in the event of nuclear war, if the president, vice president, and the speakers of both houses of Congress were dead or unable to continue their duties.
President Bush was shuttled from one military base to another. He ended up at Offutt, headquarters of the strategic command (i.e., the deterrent force), where Warren Buffett and the top executives from the upper floors of the World Trade Center were waiting for him [3].
For seven hours, George W. Bush negotiated his survival. It was agreed that he would remain in office if he agreed to implement the program presented to him. Cowardly, he agreed. Power was returned to him around 4:30 p.m., and he was able to return to Washington.
The bedside book for conspirators, Edward Luttwak's Coup d'état: A Practical Handbook (translated into French as Coup d'état, mode d'emploi), examines several examples of coups d'état and concludes that they can only succeed if they are invisible [4]. This is what happened that day: an invisible coup d'état, since the president remained in office.
From that moment on, the United States changed completely. It returned to its criminal past, that of the genocide of Native Americans and its successive wars. It established a secret political police force, with 112,000 agents [5]. It made torture widespread [6], even practicing it in the White House [7]. It abducted 280,000 people and tortured them in international waters [8]. It massacred more than a million human beings in Afghanistan and Iraq [9].
Germany and France were the only nations to oppose the war against Iraq. But on December 9, 2003, France 2, in its evening news broadcast, gave Edward Luttwak a platform. He declared: "Chirac has a bill to pay in Washington ! He has a long bill to pay in Washington. And, in Washington, there is obviously a decision to make him pay the price. Chirac wanted to feast at the expense of the United States on the diplomatic stage and, obviously, he's going to pay!"
The horrors committed by the United States should have ended with the 2016 election. That was Donald Trump's promise, made and repeated time and again. He did indeed end US funding of al-Qaeda and its affiliates, but the massacres continued under different names. Despite being embroiled in all sorts of scandals, including two impeachment proceedings, betrayed by almost his entire team, and having his reelection blocked, he returned in 2024.
We have all observed that, abandoning the principles he had always defended, he launched a pointless and unjust war against Iran. Why against Iran?
On September 23, 2010, as the United States prepared to attack Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a historic speech before the United Nations General Assembly [10]. He explained that the wars against the Afghan and Iraqi people had been officially launched because their governments had participated in organizing the 9/11 attacks. In the eyes of the United Nations, these were therefore not domestic US events, but international acts of war. He also called for a United Nations investigation into these events, which many considered inconsistent. He then outlined his personal vision of politics as a sacred duty in service to his people.
Stunned, President Barack Obama, a former CIA agent, rushed to the BBC airwaves the very next day, broadcasting in Farsi (that is, Persian) [11]. He recognized Iran's right to nuclear energy and demanded, in exchange, that Iran abandon the 9/11 issue.
Since President Obama did not specify this, it should be noted that Iran's nuclear research has not focused on military applications since 1988, but rather on civilian applications: fusion. This would allow developing countries to become self-reliant by providing them with a virtually limitless energy source.
As a side note, his communications advisor who had organized this interview, Ben Rhodes, was the man who had written two grotesque reports to bury democratic debates: one on the September 11 attacks and the other on the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
A few weeks later, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu contradicted him. He announced that his ultimate goal was to prevent Iran and Pakistan from continuing their research on nuclear fusion [12]. He thus asserted that he was not concerned with his fellow citizens, but only with preserving the domination of the world by large energy companies.
For two years, peace gradually returned to the world. But, betrayed by his own people, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was unable to present his chief of staff to succeed him, while his other collaborators, including his vice-president, Hamid Baghaie, were arrested for secret reasons, tried behind closed doors and sentenced to 15 years in prison [13].
The war against Iran, scheduled for February 28, 2026, is not a response to any new situation. It is merely a resumption of what was interrupted by President Obama in 2010. The justifications offered by propaganda are pure fabrications. The Revolutionary Guards have never murdered 40,000 Iranians. Moreover, the wave of young men joining this force since the beginning of the war is sufficient proof: they know they are not murdering their people, but protecting them.
To trot out the same nonsense about the 9/11 attacks 25 years later is inexplicable. It was possible to disregard the laws of physics in the heat of the moment. Today, to persist in claiming that the Twin Towers collapsed due to jet fuel and that Tower 7 followed suit, or that an invisible plane struck a ground-floor entrance of the Pentagon without damaging the doorframe, is a matter of belief or a psychiatric disorder.
If our political leaders and journalists have no explanation for these attacks, they should admit it. They are not obliged to agree with my analysis. In the land of Descartes, they will pride themselves on being rational.
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[1] Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror-What Really Happened, Richard A. Clarke, Free Press (2004).
[2] The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security, Stephen J. Collier & Andrew Lakoff, Princeton University Press (2021).
[3] " BEST OF 2011: Military Insiders Tell of Bush 9/11 Visit for the First Time", Bill Kelly, PBS, December 26, 2011.
[4] Coup d'état: A Practical Handbook, Edward Luttwak, A Fawcett Premier Book (1969). French version: Coup d'état, mode d'emploi, Odile Jacob (2025).
[5] Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State, Dana Priest & William M. Arkin, Little, Brown and Company (2011).
[6] Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program, United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) (2012). Senator Dianne Feinstein only published what she had discovered about CIA practices, that is, about a few hundred victims. Following an agreement with the Bush administration, she refrained from publishing information concerning the Navy's 17 floating prisons.
[7] "Sources: Top Bush Advisors Approved 'Enhanced Interrogation,'" Jan Crawford Greenburg et al., ABC News, April 9, 2008. " Torture Is the Ticking Time-Bomb: Why the Necessity Defense Fails," George Hunsinger, Dialog: A Journal of Theology, Volume 47, Number 3.
[8] According to the Reprieve association, the US Navy used 17 flat-bottomed ships to torture 280,000 Arabs. This accusation was presented in the House of Commons in London but was not published. " Prison ships, torture claims, and missing detainees," Duncan Campbell & Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, June 2, 2008.
[9] " 2001-2021: Provisional assessment of the"endless war"", Voltaire Network, September 2, 2021.
[10] " General Debate of the 65th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations", Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, United Nations, September 23, 2010.
[11] " In full: Obama speaks to BBC Persian", Bahman Kalbasi, BBC, September 24, 2010.
[12] " A World View Interview with Benjamin Netanyahu ", Les nouvelles, 2011.
[13] " Secret trial: 15 years in prison for Ahmadinejad's vice-president", Voltaire Network, March 28, 2018.
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