[A-List] Granma: the Truth about Septemeber 11

[Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby@xxxxxxxxx>]

GRANMA INTERNATIONAL Havana. March  7, 2006

THE TRUTH ABOUT SEPTEMBER 11 Must we wait for Bush to fall?

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/marzo/mart7/11verdad.html

New revelations incriminate the U.S. government in the tragic events
that cost thousands of lives in New York

BY JOAQUIN ORAMAS

EXACTLY what happened on September 11, 2001 in New York is still is a
mystery. Investigators say that they are just waiting for the Bush
administration to fall to demand the declassification of documents that
would reveal the truth about what happened that day.

For many, indications and criminal evidence are already sufficiently
overwhelming regarding the complicity of the U.S. administration in the
events of that fateful day, when endless hours of broadcasts on U.S.
television networks showed, one million times, an image that engraved
itself on humanity’s memory as the Twin Towers collapsed in flames after
being hit by two planes, as well as the official version of those events.

Since then, the world has been informed of what some experts are calling
a fraud, because they are stating that the Twin Towers were destroyed by
the U.S. administration itself to justify its current wars.

Just a few days after the dreadful event, some writers dared to hint
that they did not believe the official information. They based
themselves on flagrant facts; for example, the collapse of the World
Trade Center occurring just as if it were a controlled demolition,
referred to by highly experienced specialists.

Seasoned journalists began investigating along those same lines in order
to confirm that today’s world history is built on an enormous shady deal.

In February 2002 it was announced that the Pentagon had decided to enter
the media business. From then on the Office of Strategic Influence
(OSI), discreetly created after September 11, placed news items and
other material supporting U.S. interests in the international media in
order to create a favorable atmosphere for U.S. military operations and
to counteract opposing views, such as the one that the attacks on New
York on September 11,
2001 and on London on July 7, 2005 were to be simulated ones¼

It also refuted a documentary by British director Adam Curtis titled The
Power of Nightmares, an entry in the Cannes Film Festival, in which he
affirms that the nightmare of international terrorism known as Al Qaeda
does not exist. According to the documentary, it is just another
invention of the United States, which manufactures such horrors to
justify its interventions and interests.

Or to influence voters, as was the case a few days before the U.S.
presidential elections, when surprise TV reports disclosed a statement
by Bin Laden threatening to attack the United States. When referring to
the video broadcast four days before the November 2, 2004 elections,
Bush confessed that the Al Qaeda leader “didn’t mean to” but had helped
him to win.

In addition, U.S. investigator Michael C. Ruppert pointed to Vice
President Dick Cheney as the top suspect in the September 11 attacks.

Meanwhile, in a series of conferences on Sept. 11 organized in Europe’s
main capitals, U.S. journalists and writers affirmed the Bush
administration’s responsibility for organizing the attacks, with an
outcome that has enabled the stabilization of an exceptional regime in
that country.

According to Andreas von Bulow, former German minister of defense and
head of intelligence, in a revelation that has passed by unnoticed, the
Sept. 11 attacks were the product of an undercover CIA operation, with
immediate destruction of the evidence left at the sites of the events.

It is also claimed that the attack on the World Trade Center was
anticipated by arms manufacturers, who are constantly asking for more
money for their military budgets. According to analysts at the Rand
Corporation in the United States, the Sept. 11 events were unimaginable,
and constitute a revolution in terrorist acts, thus justifying the
allocation of unlimited funds to combat terrorism. However, they
themselves had analyzed in detail the unimaginable. Six months before
the attacks, there was discussion at a U.S. Air Force Academy on the
possibility of an air attack on the Twin Towers.

$7 BILLION LAWSUIT

In addition, Stanley Hilton, who was head of the team of former U.S.
presidential candidate Bob Dole, accused the U.S. government of having
been involved in the attacks. Hilton said that a group of high-ranking
military officers affirm that members of the government were involved in
the attacks.

He believes that Bush ordered the attack with the complicity of Cheney,
Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, and the director of the CIA.

Alex Jones, a U.S. journalist, interviewed Hilton, a lawyer, who
represents the majority of the families of victims of the Sept. 11
attacks, who are suing the government for $ 7 billion. Today, according
to a survey by Zogby, half of New York’s residents believe the
government was involved in the events.

Another argument of Hilton’s – for which he says he has evidence – is
that the plane hijackers were FBI and CIA double agents who infiltrated
different Islamic groups resident in the United States. He also affirms
that when the U.S. population witnessed Bush’s indifference on
television when the New York attacks were being explained to him, it was
because the president already knew what was planned for that day.

Maneuvers by World Trade Center owners before and after the attack on
the Twin Towers are similarly suspicious. Seven weeks before the
attacks, Larry Abraham Silverstein, backed by a large number of
investors, signed a 99-year leasing contract on those buildings. The
names of those very wise investors remain a secret; seven weeks after
that action, they cashed in on the colossal insurance of $3.5 billion.

Let’s say that the tragedy was not what those investigators are
claiming. If that is the case, it turns out that for almost a decade,
more than 200 countries, headed by the United States and the United
Kingdom, have been at the mercy of one single organization that acts
throughout the planet at its whim, without all of the arsenals and
repressive agencies of those countries being sufficient to overcome that
sinister terrorist monopoly. The most astute and efficient terrorist
organization in the world in humanity’s entire history is supposedly in
hiding in the Islamic Third World...

And to force it out of its lair, the United States and Britain have
launched two wars in Middle Eastern countries and are threatening
others. But four years later, after hundreds of thousands of deaths and
the extraction of millions of barrels of oil, neither of them have any
idea of the whereabouts of its main ringleader, Osama Bin Laden, who has
not even shaven off his beard to give them the slip.

They don’t even know where the “second-in-command” is after he
disappeared into the Afghan mountains on a motorcycle.

Goebbels, the Nazi, used to say that if lies are repeated often enough,
they become the truth. He was right, but only for a short while. In 1930
and post-1930, they could be sustained for quite some while; but the
current very bombardment of information means they don’t last as long.

At the very moment that the attacks took place, people who tuned into
CNN might well have thought they were watching a movie when the first
plane crashed. When they saw the second one, they realized that it was
not a movie, and heard the announcer say off-air, very excited, that at
least 50,000 people were probably in the buildings at the time. Perhaps
someone remembers that. That was followed by pandemonium, shouting, etc.

When the total number of dead was given, the announcer’s quote sounded
very concise. How did it drop from 50,000 to 5,000, and subsequently to
the final count of 3,500? What happened to the other 42,500 people? The
next day, on a Spanish-language radio station, Latin American residents
of New York who worked at the Twin Towers were interviewed by Uruguayan
and Argentine journalists, and told them why they had not gone to work
that day. Their explanations were suspiciously identical: “My boss
called and said not to come in;” “I work at such-and-such a company and
they told me the day before not to go in on the 11;” “a coworker called
to say that he had received instructions not to go in.”

Suspiciously, almost all the deaths were of maintenance and cleaning
personnel. That detail alone led to the thinking that there was a cat in
the bag, and later, further evidence emerged after exhaustive studies.
History is full of versions aimed at preparing the terrain for an
invasion; later, it was learned that the police and firefighters were
banned from making statements about the events of Sept. 11.

Meanwhile, the U.S. people are living in a cloud of ignorance, and a
half century will have to go by before other generations find out about
the secrets kept locked away in safes by the masterminds of the crime.

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