[Marxism] The strongest evidence against the theory that right-wing American operatives were behind 9-11

["Austin, Andrew" <austina@xxxxxxxx>]

All,

The clearest piece of evidence connecting bin Laden to 9.11 is a videotaped 
message, the English transcript of which was provided by Aljazeera on 
11.1.2004.  This was bin Laden's attempt to influence the US presidential 
election.  I want to focus on a part of the speech where bin Laden takes 
responsibility for the 9.11.2001 attack.  If this is indeed bin Laden, and 
these words represent an accurate translation of statements actually uttered, 
then bin Laden is admitting his role in the attacks on Manhattan that occurred 
five years ago tomorrow.  If we hold to the theory that right-wing American 
operatives were behind 9-11, we would also therefore have to believe that bin 
Laden is working for those same right-wing American operatives.

                People of America this talk of mine is for you and concerns the 
ideal way to prevent another Manhattan, and deals with the war and its causes 
and results. ... I say to you that security is an indispensable pillar of human 
life and that free men do not forfeit their security, contrary to Bush's claim 
that we hate freedom. ... No, we fight because we are free men who don't sleep 
under oppression. We want to restore freedom to our nation, just as you lay 
waste to our nation. So shall we lay waste to yours. ... No one except a dumb 
thief plays with the security of others and then makes himself believe he will 
be secure. Whereas thinking people, when disaster strikes, make it their 
priority to look for its causes, in order to prevent it happening again. ... 
Even though we are in the fourth year after the events of September 11th, Bush 
is still engaged in distortion, deception and hiding from you the real causes. 
And thus, the reasons are still there for a repeat of what occurred. 
                
                So I shall talk to you about the story behind those events and 
shall tell you truthfully about the moments in which the decision was taken, 
for you to consider.  I say to you, Allah knows that it had never occurred to 
us to strike the towers. But after it became unbearable and we witnessed the 
oppression and tyranny of the American/Israeli coalition against our people in 
Palestine and Lebanon, it came to my mind.  

                The events that affected my soul in a direct way started in 
1982 when America permitted the Israelis to invade Lebanon and the American 
Sixth Fleet helped them in that. This bombardment began and many were killed 
and injured and others were terrorised and displaced.  I couldn't forget those 
moving scenes, blood and severed limbs, women and children sprawled everywhere. 
Houses destroyed along with their occupants and high rises demolished over 
their residents, rockets raining down on our home without mercy.  The situation 
was like a crocodile meeting a helpless child, powerless except for his 
screams. Does the crocodile understand a conversation that doesn't include a 
weapon? And the whole world saw and heard but it didn't respond. 
                
                In those difficult moments many hard-to-describe ideas bubbled 
in my soul, but in the end they produced an intense feeling of rejection of 
tyranny, and gave birth to a strong resolve to punish the oppressors.  And as I 
looked at those demolished towers in Lebanon, it entered my mind that we should 
punish the oppressor in kind and that we should destroy towers in America in 
order that they taste some of what we tasted and so that they be deterred from 
killing our women and children.  And that day, it was confirmed to me that 
oppression and the intentional killing of innocent women and children is a 
deliberate American policy. Destruction is freedom and democracy, while 
resistance is terrorism and intolerance.  This means the oppressing and 
embargoing to death of millions as Bush Sr did in Iraq in the greatest mass 
slaughter of children mankind has ever known, and it means the throwing of 
millions of pounds of bombs and explosives at millions of children - also in 
Iraq - as Bush Jr did, in order to remove an old agent and replace him with a 
new puppet to assist in the pilfering of Iraq's oil and other outrages.  So 
with these images and their like as their background, the events of September 
11th came as a reply to those great wrongs, should a man be blamed for 
defending his sanctuary?  Is defending oneself and punishing the aggressor in 
kind, objectionable terrorism? If it is such, then it is unavoidable for us.   

                This is the message which I sought to communicate to you in 
word and deed, repeatedly, for years before September 11th. And you can read 
this, if you wish, in my interview with Scott in Time Magazine in 1996, or with 
Peter Arnett on CNN in 1997, or my meeting with John Weiner in 1998. You can 
observe it practically, if you wish, in Kenya and Tanzania and in Aden. And you 
can read it in my interview with Abdul Bari Atwan, as well as my interviews 
with Robert Fisk. The latter is one of your compatriots and co-religionists and 
I consider him to be neutral. So are the pretenders of freedom at the White 
House and the channels controlled by them able to run an interview with him?  
So that he may relay to the American people what he has understood from us to 
be the reasons for our fight against you?  If you were to avoid these reasons, 
you will have taken the correct path that will lead America to the security 
that it was in before September 11th. This concerned the causes of the war.
                
                It is the American people and their economy. And for the 
record, we had agreed with the Commander-General Muhammad Ataa, Allah have 
mercy on him, that all the operations should be carried out within 20 minutes, 
before Bush and his administration notice.  It never occurred to us that the 
commander-in-chief of the American armed forces would abandon 50,000 of his 
citizens in the twin towers to face those great horrors alone, the time when 
they most needed him. But because it seemed to him that occupying himself by 
talking to the little girl about the goat and its butting was more important 
than occupying himself with the planes and their butting of the skyscrapers, we 
were given three times the period required to execute the operations - all 
praise is due to Allah.

This leaves little room for speculation.  Do read the whole speech.  If this is 
Western propaganda, then they have done a good job of mimicking the rhetoric of 
seriously committed Third World resistance fighters.  Go here: 
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/79C6AF22-98FB-4A1C-B21F-2BC36E87F61F.htm

Andrew


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