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Noam Chomsky: No Evidence that Al-Qaeda Carried Out the 9/11 Attacks
Leading liberal intellectual Noam Chomsky just told Press TV:
"The explicit and declared motive of the [Afghanistan] war was to compel the Taliban to turn over to the United States, the people who they accused of having been involved in World Trade Center and Pentagon terrorist acts. The Taliban…they requested evidence…and the Bush administration refused to provide any," the 81-year-old senior academic made the remarks on Press TV's program a Simple Question. "We later discovered one of the reasons why they did not bring evidence: they did not have any." The political analyst also said that nonexistence of such evidence was confirmed by FBI eight months later. "The "All of this was totally illegal. It was more, criminal," Chomsky said.
head of FBI, after the most intense international investigation in
history, informed the press that the FBI believed that the plot may
have been hatched in Afghanistan, but was probably implemented in the
United Arab Emirates and Germany."
Chomsky
added that three weeks into the war, "a British officer announced that
the US and Britain would continue bombing, until the people of
Afghanistan overthrew the Taliban... That was later turned into the
official justification for the war."
As Wired wrote on September 27, 2001:
President
Bush has said he has evidence that Osama bin Laden was behind the
attacks, so it would seem obvious that the FBI would include him and
other suspects on its 10 most wanted fugitives Web page.
Think again.
Bin Laden is listed, but only for the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies
in Tanzania and Kenya. There is no mention of the 1993 World Trade
Center bombing or the attacks on the USS Cole in October 2000, both of
which he is widely believed to have orchestrated. And forget about Sept.
11.
The reason? Fugitives on the list must be formally
charged with a crime, and bin Laden is still only a suspect in the
recent attacks in New York City and Washington.
"There's going to
be a considerable amount of time before anyone associated with the
attacks is actually charged," said Rex Tomb, who is head of the FBI's
chief fugitive publicity unit and helps decide which fugitives appear
on the list. "To be charged with a crime, this means we have found
evidence to confirm our suspicions, and a prosecutor has said we will
pursue this case in court."
Larry C. Johnson, a former CIA officer
who was deputy director of the U.S. State Department Office of
Counterterrorism from 1989 to 1993, said in a Sept. 12 interview
conducted by Frontline that there is no concrete proof that bin
Laden is responsible for the USS Cole and the 1993 WTC attacks, but bin
Laden celebrates those attacks and associates himself with people who
are responsible for it.
President Bush promises to reveal
evidence linking bin Laden to the suicide hijackers who attacked the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Bin Laden has applauded the
attacks but denies direct involvement.
The Bush administration never provided such evidence.
As I wrote last December:
President Obama said Tuesday night as justification for the surge in troops in Afghanistan:
We
did not ask for this fight. On September 11, 2001, 19 men hijacked
four airplanes and used them to murder nearly 3,000 people.
Al Qaeda’s base of operations was in Afghanistan, where they were harbored by the Taliban”, who refused to turn over Osama bin Laden.
Is that true?
On
October 14, 2001, the Taliban offered to hand over Osama bin Laden to a
neutral country if the US halted bombing if the Taliban were given
evidence of Bin Laden's involvement in 9/11.Specifically, as the Guardian writes:
Returning
to the White House after a weekend at Camp David, the president said
the bombing would not stop, unless the ruling Taliban "turn [bin Laden]
over, turn his cohorts over, turn any hostages they hold over." He
added, "There's no need to discuss innocence or guilt. We know he's
guilty" ...
Afghanistan's deputy prime minister, Haji Abdul Kabir,
told reporters that the Taliban would require evidence that Bin Laden
was behind the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US.
"If the
Taliban is given evidence that Osama bin Laden is involved" and the
bombing campaign stopped, "we would be ready to hand him over to a third
country", Mr Kabir added.However, as the Guardian subsequently points out:
A
senior Taliban minister has offered a last-minute deal to hand over
Osama bin Laden during a secret visit to Islamabad, senior sources in
Pakistan told the Guardian last night.
For the first time, the Taliban offered to hand over Bin Laden for trial in a country other than the US without asking to see evidence first in return for a halt to the bombing, a source close to Pakistan's military leadership said.
And yet ... the U.S. turned down the offer and instead prosecuted war.
And in 2006, FBI agent Rex Tomb told reporter Ed Haas that the FBI still did not have enough evidence:
The
reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page
is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.
In fact, many leading liberals have expressed doubts about 9/11,
including Daniel Ellsberg, Ray McGovern, William Blum, Dennis Kucinich,
Mike Gravel, Lewis Lapham, Dan Hamburg, Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan,
Amy Goodman, Thom Hartmann, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Marc Crispin Miller,
Howard Zinn, Robert McChesney, Gore Vidal, Chris Floyd, Robert Fisk,
Medea Benjamin, Doris "Granny D" Haddock, Paul Hawken, David Cobb,
Randy Hayes, Ernest Callenbach, Dennis Bernstein, Paul H. Ray, Michael
Franti, Janeane Garafalo and Ed Asner.
As have many prominent old-fashioned conservatives. And the 9/11 Commissioners themselves. See this.
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The answer:
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Mind blowing. Better than any novel I have ever read.
you lost me immediately here. explain why this is relevant or save the bullshit.
What sort of novels have you been reading?
Looks like Unabomber-style ranting and endless typing, but hey, I've no indefeasible claim to the Truth.
Chomsky is a man who has no problem with half of the population imposing their will on the other half as long as they have 1% more of the vote.
Oswald shot Kennedy, acting alone. The ultimate unanswered question: why was Kennedy's security so lax? Motive was out there, opportunity was provided. Just wait, and see what happens.
Flash forward in the use of this subtle but effective technique, as applied again in 2001. On 9/11, fairly well-planned but misguided Muslim extremist knuckleheads got lucky with an American security system that had its pants down around its knees and took over and flew four planes to various targets, to deadly effect. No government involvement, no conspiracy in the execution, only in the coverup of various facts of who was to blame for this shameless laxity in national vigilance. The event was the spark that lit underlying dry tinder that has already accumulated in certain governmental quarters.
Cheney, the Neocon-Imperialists et al were itching to hit Iraq, and 9/11 gave them an excuse. Wasn't 2 days went by before doctored pictures of Atta meeting with supposed Iraqi intelligence officers hit the tv screens. But the Go-To-War-In-Iraq conspiracy, such as it was, came after, but did not cause 9/11. But the lax security . . .those who provided the wide-open opportunity, well, we've already forgotten caring as to who let it happen.
@Ned: good post. Looks to me like a fair degree of prior knowledge on the part of certain elements in the US gov't - intel svcs, Bush - (about 40 hours before the hits, somebody got uneasy and bled something, NPR issued a bulletin to the effect that "a major terrorist event is shortly expected w/in continental US"), and they just let it go ahead, as it served the neo-con Zionist agenda aimed at taking out Israel's middle-east enemies one-by-one. As to Bin-Laden involvement, he issued two statements just after the attack: 1) within a day or so, "Who, what? I had nothing to do with this" and then 2) about 3 days later, when the enormity of the atrocity had sunk in, "Oh absolutely, for sure, this was one of my operations...". I suppose one could take the 2nd statement as a confession. Or not.
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Noam Chomsky. Fuck that lunatic. This blog has gone to shit. Noam Chomsky isn't worth pondering for even a millisecond. Any of you that give this asshole an ounce of credence should move to fucking North Korea where you'll have a great time in the company of other delusional, oppressive communists. I say, fuck ya.
Precious. Fuck that lunatic. This blog has gone to shit. Precious isn't worth pondering for even a millisecond. Any of you that give this asshole an ounce of credence should move .... I say, fuck ya.
911 was an inside job...
"Chomsky is an anarcho-syndicalist"
Is not. Chomsky is a lover of everyone that hates USA and hates everyone that likes USA. That is the only consistent ballpark for Chomsky. It doesn't matter if the enemy kills peasants and almost half population like Pol Pot, if it is islamic supremacists like Taliban, any clown in Latin America that takes his country to bankrupcy. The only thing that makes Chomsky is the hate against USA.
Fuck you jackass. Go read the Constitution. The words. It was written for you. So you could understand it, as an individual. Reach your own conclusion.
gotta love ZHers.
Go do some reseach on Pol Pot!
You will easily learn he was also a CIA/MIC creation. A direct result of the Vietnam War.
Ignorance is only bliss for the ignorant.... MORON !
You live in political disneyland where America is mickey mouse.
OR you work for one of those billion dollar propoganda (err security agencies) and are in some cubicle.
WTC 6. Check it bitches. It's the FOURTH WTC building that went down, but all we have are photos of the hole in the ground.
Yeh nobody says too much about building 6. That is the place where the gold bullion came up missing isn't it?
Why this hopeless criature G.Washington came here to write idiocy. Everytime.
Oblivious to the ideology of enemies he now gets even the clown Chomsky a true Lord Haw Haw respectful of taliban supremacists that destroy Buda Historical religious monuments - hey i guess it was Bush tooo-
to not even talk about the rest...what they make to fellow muslims...
Only explanation is the ignorance of Tyler about military issues which is clear for anyone that knows a thing when he(Tyler) start to talk about aircraft carriers , submarines and alike...
No, zalexs. This is called "Free Speech", protected by Law and, ultimately, by my (our) guns. Like all the other contrarian stuff on this site.
Fuck you jackass. Crawl back under your rock.
step in dog shit
Not a bad post for someone with a 6 grade English competency. Try again when you reach the 7th grade.
Try “6th grade”, Miss Landers.
Might not be a native English speaker, of course.
Budha monuments - the people of the area were up in arms that their lives were so expendable, hundreds of people were dying, thousands in miserable conditions (Afghanistan as a whole doesn't even have clean water for the majority of people). The Taliban went ahead because of the attention given to these statues and the people who live near them being so vocal that nobody cared about them.
ie Rocks are not expendable but people are. That is sick and inhumane.
Talking about the inhumanity of destroying some rocks is the utmost in hypocracy.
Great...you just demonstrated your values, you hate Buddhists and their temples. The temples are mere "rocks" .
"Information and Culture Minister Qadratullah Jamal told Associated Press of a decision by 400 religious clerics from across Afghanistan declaring the Buddhist statues against the tenets of Islam. "They came out with a consensus that the statues were against Islam," said Jamal."
If it was Christians doing it would be enough motive in your mind to attack the Vatican in Rome i suppose. So should Buddhists retaliate and bomb Mecca?
Any Buddhist would value life above an inanimate object.
Why doesn't Chomsky just come out and say it - 911 was an inside job. Anyone who thoroughly researches the issue would arrive at the same conclusion. The only issue is who was involved, who knew beforehand, and who knew afterwards and was involved with the coverup. No different than the kennedy assasination and a lot of other so called conspiracies. have the elites now amply demonstrated that they can poull the wool over the eyes of Americans and get away with anything? Why is it so implausible for people to believe or accept the fact that this "democracy" was hijacked by a group of power elites some time ago, and that they do as they please, and don't give a dam if 1-2% of the population knows what is going on. They control the masses, and he who controls the mob, controls the mob, controls rome. read machiavelli. Read the Protocols. This is nothing new. Do you really think the rich and powerful would really let the masses rule? No way. America was an aberration for the short period of time that we actually had a republic. people today are too stupid, selfish and corrupt. Our destiny is to now be ruled by despots, just like everyone else, And i don't mean morons like Bush, Obama, Clinton, Kerry and Mccain.
It really doesn't matter, the truth that is. Whether we're talking about the Fed, or off balance sheet holdings, or what mbs would be worth m2m, or 9/11.... The truth doesn't matter, even if you know what it is; even if you can prove it. There are those in power, collectively TPTB, that will lie and discredit from the highest podiums to protect the status quo. As it ever was, only a full collapse will purge the rotten system. I await the day, and no longer consider myself a citizen, but a subject, of whatever it is the US has become. When the time comes, if it comes, I will hunt the criminals down and spare no quarter.
We live in lawless times, tyrannical times, revolutionary times. God help us all. We must collectively cease to participate (mortgages, taxes, work), and exercise our power as a citizenry, or this will end in bloodshed.
We live in lawless times, tyrannical times, revolutionary times. God help us all.
Amen to that.
CC i agree with you and doing it.
+1000 to both of you.And consider this:by law, various agency heads can quash an investigation into crimes in the interest of national security.This explains the out-loud HFT rape fest and a whole lot more financial carnage very well.More than anything, these people want the truth concealed...because if it came out, they would be summarily removed from power and their circus would collapse.
How come Ray McGovern rates being named twice?
9/11 inside job, no other way around it, Iraq and Afgahn wars are false.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/10/20/al-qaeda-terror-leader-dined-pentag...
9/11 inside job
Exactly.
10 idiots + 2 boxcutters = 3 skyscrapers collapse
WRONG. 4 buildings. Research WTC 6.
Hell, look at the damage of WTC 3 after the collapse of the first tower, if WTC 7 is the smoking gun then WTC 3 is the shell casing:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/wtc%203/janedoe444/ARG/Biggart1836.jpg
WTC 3 is located in the debris field at the base of WTC 1 and WTC 2 directly below the two towers and remained in this state until the second collapse upon it. The photographer that took the picture above was killed by the collapse of WTC 1.
Yet WTC 7 nearly a block away
http://wirednewyork.com/wtc/map/
collapses completely symmetrically at almost free fall speed (defying the theory of conservation of momentum) leaving no structural debris standing
http://www.wtc7.net/videos.html
plus a shitload of energy
If Obama, Bush, Clinton, Paul, and Palin all declared "The 911 Commision was a joke", the sheeple would still not get it. It is the same as telling someone "Jesus didn't exist".
The 9/11 commission was a joke but not for the reason you believe. It was a joke because the very people who sat around twirling with their thumbs up their ass while those Islamic fanatics planned on killing thousands of us, were on the fucking commission. Jamie Gorelick....fuck.
"Jesus didn't exist" - I am an Atheist but I think Jesus was real, after all they found his tomb with a body inside :)
PS. do you know why Jews don't believen in Jesus ? Because they wrote the Book
I like to think of Jesus as a mischievous badger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A0-u85aAYg&feature=related
Try reading at least one of the gospels and call me in the morning.
I was raised in a catholic house, in a catholic country (98%) and received more catholic schooling than I care to admit, and no I was not abused except psychologically that is
And I believe that there is a case for the existence of John the Baptist, but not for Jesus. I think that either Herod framed the story of Jesus to deflect John's followers, or John's followers framed the story of Jesus to deflect Herod.
In either case, is not the sine qua non of Christianity baptism? And how many people did Jesus baptize?
Although on the surface I would seem to agree about the Hebrews having written the story, I don't think I agree with the motive you seem to imply.
And before anybody junks me, it's been a slow day so please have mercy.
Please!!! This is an economic blog. I think the world is big enough for people who love Jesus (like me!) and those who do not. Not the venue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry. You are right. I just... I just couldn't help myself.
Promise never to do it again.
excellent reporting from president washington.....if anyone has watched those hokey 3 stoogesesque films of the actor portraying bin laden or from alleged al qaeda locations somewhere deep in the mountains he would bust a gut laughing.....i'd like to know which sound stage at langley was used to film those hoaxes....only the hoax that obama is an american is more of a hoot....
al qaeda and the taliban are creatures of the cia....they are the lee oswalds of 9/11...patsies pure and simple...the cia bombed americans on order from the rockefeller led oligarchy.....see aron russo on the subject.
the taliban and mujahadeen (sp) go back to the soviets in afghanistan when the cia tried to fight the soviets covertly...
the black boxes from jet liners involved in 9/11 were supposedly all missing...what are the odds that all 4 would be missing?? indeed they were recovered with american voices orchestrating the attacks. no doubt fool arabs were duped into the conspiracy...but it is reasonable to assume that auto pilot planes were crashed into the various buildings - a cover for setting off the nanothermite laced support structures of the buildings....
then there is all of the hoax evidence of uranium, weapons of mass destruction, and littany of other fabricated evidence of terrorism created by the american caligula - george-41. george-43 might be too fucktarded to pull of the heist of the century.
fuck the bushes.....please read tarpley and family of secrets....and fuck the bushes again....