Tuesday, July 06, 2004

911, the US conspiracy?

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Recent Read : 911 Conspiracy theory
Michael Meacher, a former British environment minister, vindicates FTW's (From The Wilderness, it's a magazine) position on 9/11, the war on terrorism, and peak oil.

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I dislike conspiracy theory, truly. I loathed not to be able to believe in things by their appearance. Conspiracy theory says that for every explanation to a situation, there must be a more evil, sinister explanation. It goes against my faith in humanity. Nonetheless, when certain facts cause suspicion, they must be mentioned and highlighted.

In the article above, the author asked several tough questions for people who want to sympathize with US in the 911 event.


First, it is clear the US authorities did little or nothing to pre-empt the events of 9/11. It is known that at least 11 countries provided advance warning to the US of the 9/11 attacks. Two senior Mossad experts were sent to Washington in August 2001 to alert the CIA and FBI to a cell of 200 terrorists said to be preparing a big operation (Daily Telegraph, September 16 2001). The list they provided included the names of four of the 9/11 hijackers, none of whom was arrested....

Michael Springman, the former head of the American visa bureau in Jeddah, has stated that since 1987 the CIA had been illicitly issuing visas to unqualified applicants from the Middle East and bringing them to the US for training in terrorism for the Afghan war in collaboration with Bin Laden (BBC, November 6 2001)....

The first hijacking was suspected at not later than 8.20am, and the last hijacked aircraft crashed in Pennsylvania at 10.06am. Not a single fighter plane was scrambled to investigate from the US Andrews airforce base, just 10 miles from Washington DC, until after the third plane had hit the Pentagon at 9.38 am. Why not? There were standard FAA intercept procedures for hijacked aircraft before 9/11. Between September 2000 and June 2001 the US military launched fighter aircraft on 67 occasions to chase suspicious aircraft (AP, August 13 2002). It is a US legal requirement that once an aircraft has moved significantly off its flight plan, fighter planes are sent up to investigate....


It is not difficult to construct a US involvement from the above evidence. Apparently most canadians thought so too.

For further reference, read this "What If" article by Michael C. Ruppert.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Too far fetched. Whatever beef I have with the current US administration (stupid and short sighted), saying that 911 was a planned US conspiracy is really waaaaaay too far left.

And the problem with conspiracies is that they tend to be overly complex. Why have a grand theory to explain events when occam's razor would serve us better: when there is no overwhelming evidence for any one theory the simpler one is often correct/more useful. Let's not give too much credit to the US in coming up with some shadowy consipracy - they simply didn't anticipate 911.

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