Death of Dedicated 9-11 Researcher, Elias Davidsson

by Mary W Maxwell, PhD, LLB

Last week, Elias Davidsson passed away in Germany, age 81. He was my friend and I link his obituary below. He had many irons in the fire. The events of September 2001 were possibly not his main concern, yet he turned out two important volumes in English, plus one in German, on that topic.

In 2013 he published "Hijacking America's Mind on 9-11." Much of it is an analysis of the phone calls allegedly made from the planes, both by passengers and cabin staff. And who was he to know the particulars of those calls? He got them from FBI documents that were released at the trial of Zacharias Moussaoui, as part of exculpatory evidence for the accused (who is still in Gitmo, I believe).

The two big kickers in Hijacking America's Mind (what a perfect title!) were that Yes, a call was placed by Barbara Olsen, but it lasted zero seconds. And Ed Ballinger of United Airlines was able to learn that two of the flights were not located where the official story says they were -- he gave amazing sworn testimony to the 9-11 Commission.

As dispatcher for United's 16 daily flights from East coast to West coast, Ed Ballinger said he had sent a message TO ALL HIS PILOTS when he heard there was trouble, that morning. He thus got “receipts” showing which RGS (remote ground station) had forwarded each call. In the case of UA93, the “Let’s roll” flight, the receiving RGS was not one near Shanksville, PA, but near Cleveland, Ohio.

As for Flight UA175, which supposedly smashed into the South Tower, Ballinger found that the remote ground station that forwarded his message to that plane was not near New York City but near Champaign, Illinois.

Bet you have never heard that astonishing evidence from any source – including the 9-11 Commission Report.

Elias Davidsson's later book on 9-11, entitled "Confirming America's Betrayal," looked into many oddments, including the build-up of attention to Osama bin Laden prior to September 11th. Elias wrote, on page 41:

“In [regard to] the three years leading to 9/11, I found Osama bin Laden mentioned in more than 600 English-language news reports every month on the average. According to one study, CBS and NBC News published significantly more stories mentioning Bin Laden in 2000 than those mentioning Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair and Germany’s Prime Minister Gerhard Schröder. ... Shortly after 9/11, Osama bin Laden was mentioned more often in American media than the U.S. President himself. Yet, after 9/11 the U.S. leadership lost interest in the man.”

We owe Davidsson big thanks and praise for his diligence, and his unwillingness to engage in speculation. Every chore he touched was given cautious and strict attention. In my opinion, the key book on 9-11 is Kevin Ryan's "Another Nineteen," which does indeed speculate. But Elias Davidsson is the main man on the hotel bombings in Mumbai, in his book "The Betrayal of India." He also wrote a book in German about the London Tube bombing, and one about a truck rampage in Berlin, but as I am monolingual Anglophone I have not read them.

I think Elias will go down in history as the Jew who did the most to defend Muslims (as well as Jews) against false accusations. He went at it hammer and tong.

Please see, below, my personalized obituary of this wonderful human being. It was published in Australia at GumshoeNews.com on April 15, 2022.