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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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Alright!
Noam Chomsky is just a linguist turned marxist charlatan so he can sell books to suckers.
At least Ghandi took a vow of poverty to back up his beliefs.
He's a self discribed Libertarian Socialist.
in other words, he's a walking contradiction.
Its nice to see you putting that state education to use.
Go back to the hole you came from, he wrote amazing content - you?
2 lines on a blog.
We wipe our arses with you
He is a worthless fucking communist who would eat popcorn and smile while you worked in the fields being re-educated. Fucker smiled about millions of people being murdered in Cambodia.
PierreLegrand is a worthless fucking MORON who would eat popcorn and smile while you worked in the fields being re-educated. Fucker smiled about millions of people being murdered in Iraq.
Chomsky is an anarcho-syndicalist:
Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the labour movement.[1] Syndicalisme is a French word, ultimately derived from the Greek, meaning "trade unionism" – hence, the "syndicalism" qualification. Syndicalism is an alternative co-operative economic system. Adherents view it as a potential force for revolutionary social change, replacing capitalism and the state with a new society, democratically self-managed by workers.
Sounds reasonable to me. I'd sure as hell trust my fellow workers and community members to run society better than the banksters. Capitalism has failed. I think it's about time we tried something new.
a system that uses artificially created money either by the use of electronic credits or the paper press is not capitalism. It is creditism.
Anarcho-syndicalism sounds like the way to go.
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah... ....blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I'm impressed by your well-thought out response.
'anarcho syndic'lism':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvKIWjnEPNY
Actually, I'm kinda surprised you don't like the idea of it chopper. Take a closer look, for once.
great clip. i enjoyed it. thanks for posting.
i fail to see how 'capitalism' has failed. crony capitalism, yes. free trade, no. fascist money, yes. open markets, no. communist money planning, yes. decentralized regional economies, no.
economies flourished long before the international banking cartels.
"economies flourished long before the international banking cartels."
I would imagine they'd have to. Otherwise nothing would get done and people would suffer. I'm pretty sure the indigenous people of this country had an "economy." I don't know if they were as eager to name it something.
exactly. can someone tell this to the keynesian economists (because they're convinced we cannot live without them)?
bin Laden admitted he did 911 on that video tape, the guy even looked a little bit like him:
http://www.rense.com/general18/wrong.htm
Well he had a beard, it had to be Bin Ladin :) the hat totaly gives him away too
I think the myth of Bin Ladin has outlived it's usefullnes no 'messages' from him for like 2 years now, any day someone will come out saying he's been dead for years, than they will have to scramble to invent a new boogeyman
Sometimes he's an African with the flat nose and sometimes he's a Russian with a more pointy nose. He's a shape shifter. Like Q from TNG. Everthing to everybody.
And do not forget the more Uzbeki-look with the mongol nose.
I'm waiting for Charlie Sheen do to a walk-on.
I have no idea what you darn conspiracy theorists are talking about with insane images like this:
Hey where is his brand new AK47 he always carries around with him?
Yes, many know about idefense propaganda and intelcenter fear movies.
Able Danger
Could not have been about the oil..... Will have to ask cheney about that one!
A good friend and colleague of mine turned me on to the concept of "Total War". It deserves attention and thought. He could expand, alas I can't.
this dreck is completely below ZH, or anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together frankly.
+911
I do wish ZH would stick to financial matters. It really hurts Tyler's credibility when subjects like this are raised and all the conspiracy whackos put on their tin-foil hats and chime in.
There's enough undisputed damage being done to this country by banksters and politicians without having to make crazy stuff up.
+911
George Washington is the biggest buffoon of the buffoons who are allowed to post here. This sort of nonsense absolutely ruins the credibility of the site...
PierreLegrand is the biggest buffoon of the buffoons who are allowed to post here. This sort of nonsense absolutely ruins the credibility of the site...
Thank you...having you think me sane would worry me.
You shouldn't try to control discourse like that. It's very obnoxious. If you see something you don't like then argue the point, or ignore it. To assign moral or social worth to the person making the point is very juvenile.
Heh, whether I agree with GW's posts or not, I just love the way they flush out all the right wing loonies like the duped blathering jingoists they are. Chuckle, they just can't help themselves...
obviously, nor can you.
Oh Snap!
booyakasha
swend +6, ooo,000?
Is it really so hard to extrapolate from the current governments lies, misrepresentations, falsehoods presented daily that they could be responsible or have been the enabler of this WTC act?
Gee, think of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, think Tonkin gulf in Vietnam, think Bay of Pigs in Cuba. All events enacted or allowed to take place to gain the populations support to something that would have been otherwise universally abhorred.
WTF - if you can't see the pattern, you clearly don't want to. Doesn't mean it's true but if you can't allow for the possibility, you are a fool.
Amen. A lot of "George Washington" 's articles are complete horseshit. This is one of the worst.
Thank-you. George Washington is a propagandizing commie.
Oh! I want to be called a propagandizing commie too. And a muslim terrorist.
i dont much care for PP and like george. Good thing we are all so different, it would be a boring world otherwise
The mistake here is to think of Al Queda as a formal organization like JPM or XOM. Instead it was then, and is far more now, an ad hoc grouping of radcal and obsessed, and crucially stateless crazies. Al Queda is a state of mind. After 9/11 every terrorist associated themselves with it like fan boys.
One can spend the rest of their lives debating if Al Queda carried out 9/11 but you might consider the entire arguement is simply semantics. Chompsky is correct in some formal sense but that doesn't mean Bin Laden wasn't a big part of 9/11. Al Queda, like JPM, is an abstraction. JPM is just a more fomal one.
The chances of an operation like 9/11 succeding 100%(even if you had Mossad or KGB agents running the thing) are statisticly 0 without active/passive complicity of the highest levels of power, why do you think Dick Cheyney took control over NORAD on that day(no justification was given) and the defense of the Pentagon
The justification for Cheney being in operational control that day is Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) 62, signed by Clinton in 1998, a portion of which directs that whenever an event is designated a "National Special Security Event," the Secret Service "assumes its mandated role as the lead agency for the design and implementation of the operational security plan."
According to the Secret Service, this mandate includes "a variety of training initiatives [that are] conducted to include simulated attacks and medical emergencies, inter-agency tabletop exercises, and field exercises." (http://web.archive.org/web/20020409121010/http:/www.secretservice.gov/nsse.shtml)
That day being another day of a thousand coincidences, that seem to happen with alarming frequency in Amerika given the odds, there were a number of these "training initiatives" going on that day, including a live-fly exercise with military aircraft posing as hijacked aircraft, and simulations involving the insertion of false blips onto radar screens.
Azannoth: I know.
When I finally admitted to myself that I believed that my government (meaning Israel and some traitorous Americans like Cheney) was behind the attacks my heart was literally broken for a month. I am still sad that my country has been attacked by her government.
Isn't it horrible? I just can't understand how somebody could order the death of thousands of his countrymen. And then use that State Crime Against Democracy as a justification for war in Iraq, which killed in excess of 1,000,000 precious human lives.
just view this country for what it has become, a dog fightin ring, and you'll be less worse for wear