*http://theshellgame.net/ http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/opedne_bill_dou_080110_what_do_a_renowned_9.htm January 10, 2008 at 15:10:18* What Do a Renowned 9/11 Physicist and a N.Y. Times Best Selling Novelist Have in Common? Harassment by Dis-Information?<http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_bill_dou_080110_what_do_a_renowned_9.htm> *by Bill Douglas <http://www.opednews.com/author/author2170.html> Page 1 of 4 page(s)* http://www.opednews.com <http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/print_friendly.php?p=opedne_bill_dou_080110_what_do_a_renowned_9.htm> [image: Tell A Friend] <http://www.populum.com/tellafriend.php?page=http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/opedne_bill_dou_080110_what_do_a_renowned_9.htm> In the last 48 hours, N.Y. Times best selling novelist, Steve Alten, author of, "The Shell Game," was recently shocked and dumbfounded that he'd become the victim of harassment, when someone not only put a map of his home and his personal private phone number and home address up on the internet, . . . but also either remotely accessed or intercepted personal private email between he and his publicist . . . . . . and all because of the impending release of his new novel, "The Shell Game." http://theshellgame.net/ <http://theshellgame.net/%3Cspan%3E%C2%A0>(See 9/11 truth links in the "911 Links" section of his site, to learn why this impending block buster novel may be causing such actions). Having been a patriotic citizen working to expose the deceptions leading us to war, I'd personally become fascinated with Alten's new novel, "The Shell Game." I'd contacted him through his website after a high school English teacher told me about "The Shell Game," because it dealt with oil, war, and deceptions leading us to war. So, when I learned this novelist had become increasingly a victim of bizarre harassment, I suspected "why" this may have happened, and then decided it might be instructive to explain it to others. So I wrote this oped this morning. For this, in my opinion, represents yet another event in the chronology of a movement for truth that has been attacked and maligned for years now. For the novelist who wrote, "The Shell Game," it's just a bizarre experience, for he's just trying to write a good novel, and from his perspective, well if it happens to spur discussion of important issues, well that's *about as American as apple pie*. I think most people will think, if this novel has caused him to be targeted for such harassment, even before its release . . . well, it must have something "very interesting" to say. And in my opinion it does. http://theshellgame.net/ However, the bizarre harassment of this best selling author, from my perspective, is part of a long time pattern of harassment that those of us who've been working along side the 9/11 families who have demanded a new independent 9/11 investigation, have experienced over and over again. Even the Jersey Girls, the 9/11 widows who fought Washington to get the 9/11 Commission, were victims of it when Anne Coulter said they enjoyed their husband's deaths. This best selling novelist may have set off to only write a good novel, but it has cast him into a world of intrigue and duplicity that many good people have lived in for years now. So who does this story involve? The title of this OpEd, "What Do a Renowned 9/11 Physicist and a N.Y. Times Best Selling Novelist Have in Common?" actually would be more appropriately titled, what do a former Los Angeles Police Department detective, a N.Y. Times best selling novelist, a mild mannered respected physicist, an equally mild mannered and equally respected architectural design engineer, and concerned citizens demanding a new 9/11 investigation, all have in common? This is the story of the 9/11 truth movement, and perhaps the story of how all great movements for truth and justice are deliberately sabotaged by those powers who have an interest in keeping truth from the mass public. Let's begin with the LAPD detective's story, who'd become a research writer after leaving LAPD. Not long after 9/11/2001, researcher Michael C. Ruppert, a former LAPD detective, smelled something not quite right about the events of 9/11. His nose eventually led him to call on sources he'd developed over the years as a researcher and author, with military and intelligence insiders, and discovered that mysteriously there had been many multiple war games . . . war games which do not happen that often . . . but coincidentally all were ordered by "someone" to be held on 9/11/2001. Yes, the same day as the infamous 9/11 attacks. I personally became aware of Ruppert's work when he did what the US media failed to do, he followed up on mainstream media's initial insight that there had been mysterious "insider stock trades" in the days leading up to 9/11 that signaled that someone with "insider knowledge" of the coming attacks had profited obscenely by betting "against" United and American Airlines "before" 9/11, by placing put options (bets that a stock will fall) on those ill fated airlines in trades that vastly eclipsed activity on other airlines in those days. Ruppert's research found that $5 million in "winnings" were made at a known CIA-connected financial institution called AB Brown Trust. AB Brown had been headed by the man who was the current Executive Director of the CIA, Buzzy Krongard, on 9/11. The current head of AB Brown, a friend of Krongard's, mysteriously resigned with no explanation immediately after the attacks on 9/11, and oddly $2.5 million of the winnings made against United and American Airlines by bets made the day before 9/11 . . . were never claimed. As far as I know the man was never questioned about that, and the 9/11 Commission, led by Bush Admin. confidant Phil Zelikow, refused to look into the insider trades with any enthusiasm. However, it was Mike Ruppert's research into the mysteriously timed *multiple war games of 9/11 *that eventually evolved into his riveting research book entitled, Crossing the Rubicon. His book asks why were war games which had the effect of causing a US Air Force stand down all scheduled for 9/11/2001? Who ordered them? Was it Vice President Cheney, who appeared to have been in charge of a stand down order for our Air Force which allowed an aircraft to hit the Pentagon on 9/11, when there was still time to take it down and save many lives? Transportation Secretary Norm Minetta's testimony to the 9/11 Commission, for any investigator worth his/her salt, would have called for detailed questioning of Cheney, which never happened. Even more oddly the Transportation Secretary's testimony was left out of the 9/11 Commission report. Left out by a Commission headed by Philip Zelikow a Bush Administration confidant, and co-author of a book with Condaleeza Rice, before his being forced down the throats of 9/11 family members who avidly protested a Bush Admin insider like Zelikow heading the Commission.