By Greg Szymanski

The laundry list of terrorist warnings handed to the Bush administration 

prior to 9/11 makes the President and others look like "bumbling idiots or a bunch 

of conniving criminals" responsible for the mass murders at the Twin Towers 

and in Afghanistan and Iraq.

These are the harsh words of Timothy McNiven, an outspoken critic of the 

President's handling of 9/11 and a 29-year U.S. Defense Department operative still 

under contract with the government 

He says not only did the Bush administration purposely ignore Al Queda in the 

months preceding the WTC attacks, but the situation is even more disturbing, 

considering his military unit way back in 1976 devised a mock terrorist attack 

of the Twin Towers exactly like what occurred on 9/11.

McNiven, who first went public in an affidavit included in a 9/11-related 

federal conspiracy (RICO) lawsuit filed against Bush and others in 2004, claims 

his unit was ordered to create the "perfect terrorist plan" using commercial 

airliners as weapons and the Twin Towers as their target.

The publicized version of the study, commissioned by Congress, was to 

identify security lapses and submit corrective measures to lawmakers. However, 

McNiven claims the real purpose of the study was to brainstorm how to pull off the 

perfect terrorist attack using the exact same 9/11 scenario.

The study, commissioned to C-Battery 2/81st Field Artillery, U.S. Army, 

stationed in Strassburg, Germany in 1976, specifically devised the scenario of the 

Twin Towers being leveled by Middle Eastern terrorists using commercial 

airliners and even plastic box cutters to bypass security.

To silence critics, McNiven has successfully passed a credible lie detector 

test regarding his participation in the study as well as other specific orders 

given to him by his superiors in case of a real attack on the Twin Towers.

The head of the 1976 mock terrorist plan was Lt. Michael Teague of Long 

Island, who McNiven says was given specific orders by higher-ups in the military to 

use the Twin Towers as the terrorist target.

McNiven said he has been unable to contact Lt. Teague, but was interested in 

his opinion now that "the 9/11 attacks happened the way we planned them in 

1976."

 "I remember Lt. Teague changed the scenario of the supposed study from a 100 

story building to the Twin Towers," recalled McNiven, emphasizing that Lt. 

Teague was acting on specific orders from unknown superiors.

"He then said he thought it was very strange to be asked to devise a plan to 

blow up your own home town. But as I watched the Twin Towers really collapse 

on the morning of September 11th, I realized I was watching the very same thing 

we devised in the 1976."

Since that ominous realization, McNiven has devoted his entire life to 

alerting the American public about the similarities between 9/11 and the 1976 study 

without much success, his story basically being ignored by politicians and the 

mainstream media.

"Why am I doing this? Why have I spent every waking hour trying to bring this 

story to the American people?" asked McNiven, claiming he still is following 

a strange direct military order given to him more than 25 years ago.

"During the course of the terrorist plan we were devising, I made the 

statement to Lt. Teague that if the WTC was ever attacked like we planned, I'd go 

public. I was then physically assaulted and told never to reveal anything we were 

doing regarding the Twin Towers."

However, about a week later a strange turn of events occurred. For no 

apparent reason, McNiven claims his superiors completely changed their minds.

"I was given the direct order that if the Twin Towers were ever attacked the 

way we discussed in the 1976 study, I was to do everything in my power to 

bring the similarities to the attention of the American people. 

"I have no idea why they changed their minds, but I was then emphatically 

told that this order was never to be rescinded - never - because those who would 

rescind it, would be the very same people who turned against the American 

people."

Besides taking a lie detector to verify his story, McNiven has made public a 

detailed list of about 40 names of those individuals who took part in the mock 

terrorist plan, including Col. Robert Morrison, Maj. Joe Dipiero, Sgt. 

Middleton, Sgt. Arroyo and many others.

"There were also people from the Defense Department and the CIA who were 

monitoring the study, but I wasn't able to get their names," he added.

Some of McNiven's most recent assignments with the Defense Department include 

work on the Northwest Drug Task Force and various other drug smuggling and 

weapons trafficking cases.

Greg Szymanski