Fifty Questions on 9/11
September 11th, 2009Via: Asia Times:
It’s September 11 all over again – eight years on. The George W Bush administration is out. The “global war on terror” is still on, renamed “overseas contingency operations” by the Barack Obama administration. Obama’s “new strategy” – a war escalation – is in play in AfPak. Osama bin Laden may be dead or not. “Al-Qaeda” remains a catch-all ghost entity. September 11 – the neo-cons’ “new Pearl Harbor” – remains the darkest jigsaw puzzle of the young 21st century.
It’s useless to expect US corporate media and the ruling elites’ political operatives to call for a true, in-depth investigation into the attacks on the US on September 11, 2001. Whitewash has been the norm. But even establishment highlight Dr Zbig “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski, a former national security advisor, has admitted to the US Senate that the post-9/11 “war on terror” is a “mythical historical narrative”.
The following questions, some multi-part – and most totally ignored by the 9/11 Commission – are just the tip of the immense 9/11 iceberg.
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None of these questions has been convincingly answered – according to the official narrative. It’s up to US civil society to keep up the pressure. Eight years after the fact, one fundamental conclusion is imperative. The official narrative edifice of 9/11 is simply not acceptable.
I am as eager as anyone to see 9/11 fully investigated, and raising awareness of the gross inconsistencies in the official fable is if utmost importance, even (perhaps especially) now, 8 years later. But this list should have been edited before it was published. I am up to question 34, which compelled me to write this comment.
“34) Why did George W Bush dissolve the Bin Laden Task Force nine months before 9/11?” 9 months before 9/11 was December 11, 2000, and therefore — unless the Bin Laden Task Force was a rock group or a knitting circle — George W Bush was in no position to dissolve it (or any other governmental body), and wouldn’t be for another 5 weeks or so.
Here’s another:
28) How come US ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine told FBI agent John O’Neill in July 2001 to stop investigating al-Qaeda’s financial operations – with O’Neill instantly moved to a security job at the WTC, where he died on 9/11?
He wasn’t “moved”; he left the FBI under the proverbial (and orchestrated, it seems) “cloud of controversy” regarding his alleged “incompetence”, and yet was offered a job as head of WTC security soon after — odd, since his ignoble exit from the FBI had been fairly well publicized in the pages of the NY Times. But he wasn’t “moved to a security job at the WTC”. (More info here: http://9112010.com/911101partV.html)
Nits? Perhaps, but they are easily found, and most importantly, they leave the door open to people who’ll say “truthers” make stuff up/don’t get their facts straight.