The File
On July 25, 2001, Alex Jones broadcast a two-and-a-half-hour segment warning of a coming government-engineered attack, using air quotes around "bin Laden" and calling him "the boogeyman they need in this Orwellian phony system." The clip that circulates today, most visibly through a December 2023 Tucker Carlson edit, splices Jones's words against footage of a plane striking the World Trade Center. The actual broadcast was about a warned bioweapon attack tied to a real Associated Press story that week, not a specific forecast of hijacked planes.
The Documented Record
July 25, 2001: Alex Jones broadcast a segment describing a history of government-manufactured false-flag attacks, from the Gulf of Tonkin incident to Oklahoma City, and warned of a coming attack he said would be blamed on "bin Laden." [DOCUMENTED]
Jones used air quotes around "bin Laden" while calling him "the boogeyman they need in this Orwellian phony system." [DOCUMENTED]
December 6, 2023: Tucker Carlson circulated an edited version of the broadcast, splicing Jones's words against footage of a plane hitting the World Trade Center on September 11. [DOCUMENTED]
In the full, unedited broadcast, the attack Jones actually warned of was a bioweapon event tied to an Associated Press story that week, referencing Operation Northwoods and the 1962 Joint Chiefs proposal detailed in James Bamford's book on the NSA. [DOCUMENTED]
Government and mainstream security circles discussed the possibility of a major al-Qaeda attack against U.S. targets throughout 2001, prior to September 11, including the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing titled "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US." [HIGH]
Infowars has hosted a recurring roster of guests over two decades, including staff, frequent recurring commentators, and adjacent figures who cycle through the platform for mutual audience benefit. [HIGH]
What the Record Does Not Establish
Jones did not name a date, method, or specific target. The attack he described in the unedited broadcast was a bioweapon scenario, not hijacked planes. What is documented is a broad false-flag warning common to Jones's rhetoric that year, later spliced against unrelated footage to imply a precision the original broadcast did not contain.
Sources
- How Alex Jones and Michael Ruppert founded the 9/11 truth movement, Slate, 2011
- Did Alex Jones predict 9/11?, Daily Dot, 2024
- The rise and fall of Alex Jones, The Guardian, 2022
Connected Files
AJONES-007 and AJONES-008 document specific figures who moved through the same platforming pattern described here.