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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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dark pools of soros,
I'm with you. I'm half way there. But my family came here to escape feudalism. It fucking followed them here.
I had a moment like that too, I myself was born in East Europe and my whole life I thought of the 'Holocaust deniers' as crakpots and extreemists, than just out of curiosity I googled what those 'radicals' had to say, for the fear of my post getting deleted I say only that I was shocked to what I discoverd I thought I knew better just becase 99.9% of people are saying 1 thing does not make it true
1 thing I immidieatly learned is that you can't trust any1, being a patriot is for chumps
I got tired of hearing about the holocaust too. Especially when it was exploted for gain as is documented in Norman Finkelstein's book the Holocaust Industry. However, you can now question 911, but beware of questionning the holocaust. Certain groups will track you down and hurt you. Like pavlov's dogs, americans are conditioned to equate holocaust deniers (or questioners) with somethin akin to a child molester. The day will come when there will be free discourse on this issue, but not any time soon. If you want to know who your rulers are, ask who cannot be criticized.
I'll one up you: never suggest that Stalin's crimes were overblown and sensationalized.
"If you want to know who your rulers are, ask who cannot be criticized."
This is the first profound thing I've heard in months, here or anywhere.
because jews can't be criticized? What planet to you live on?
The origin of that quote is Wiemar Germany. Or if not the origin, it was a widely used saying at the time.
That these Islamist clods pulled 9/11 off reflects that Gubmint by its very nature always sucks, including the various Gubmint intelligence agencies around the world that fucked up in the worst way. Consider Janet Napolitano. Does she instill confidence? I doubt she could do an adequate job of mowing my lawn or successfully back her car out of my driveway.
Al Queda was the name of a list at the Pentagon. The list contained the CIA's assets in Afganistan. True Story.
Al Qaeda literally translates to the "database" by which the CIA referred to the list of mujahideen fighters on their payroll fighting the Russians in Afghanistan. The CIA now admits to funneling billions to bin Laden et. al via the Pakistani Intelligence Service, or I.S.I.
It should also be noted that a retired general with the I.S.I. now admits to being involved with wiring Muhammed Atta $100k cash prior to the 9/11 attacks.
Another story that should not be ignored is that of Sibel Edmonds, an F.B.I. translater who uncovered documents proving that certain highly placed officials within the U.S. govt. were on the payroll of Turkish intelligence services and she was approached by the Turks as well. When she told her superiors about it she was fired and none of her claims were ever investigated.
All of this ties together somehow, I just don't know how. I do know this though, the theories on the inter-webs seem MUCH more plausible to me than the "official" story.
P.S. To all those who say that we will never know the truth. Google, "thugee". That conspiracy theory floated around in India for almost 1000 years before a young English Army officer finally proved it was true and brought down the entire secret society with it.
and quite an asset it has been
Chomsky is insane. Insane with hatred for Dubya. Had leftist Oblama been POTUS on 9/11, Chomsky wouldn't give a shit whether these freaks were aligned with AlQaeda or AlKabob.
Which only shows that you have no idea what Chomsky has written or when.
Chomsky has been a critic of both Republican and Democratic Administrations for their foreign policies since before Dubya was Governor of Texas.
I think you mean AlCIAda.
Your ignorance is astounding, better get googling, son.
al qaeda or al kabob - now that's some funny shit - well played sir
The most salient part of the whole thing is how our reponse to the atrocities (Wars on two fronts) contributed mightly to bankrupting us. Wish we were a little smarter about what we do but we ain't. That said Afghanistan clearly needed to be rooted out it's just that we could have done it a lot cleaner and less expensively. Iraq was an unabashed mistake and a big one.
"Was" an unabashed mistake? Two days ago, Baghdad lit up like Fort Sumter...bombs, mortar attacks, 100+ people killed. Then there's the Afghan Forever War, and #3 ZOGwar - Iran - looming on the horizon. I mean, think what it's going to do to the Dollar....
It is science. PEER REVIEW. Building 7 was REALLY sad and spontaneously combusted into a cloud of dust that was unable to provide resistance to the weight above, hence the free fall speed.
Michael Chertoff's cousin told me so in his 9/11 CT debunker article in Popular Mechanics.
I still think Bin laden snuck into all three buildings, wired them with thermate, hijacked the Norad computer defense system and caused a stand down, and further put remote control devices on the hijacked airplanes. When Dick Cheney saw what was going on, like the true hero he is (not the chicken hawk most think he is) He singlehandedly took charge to defend the pentagon and saved the nation from further harm. Bin laden purchased the put options, Bin laden gave us the false information on WMDs so that we would be duped into invading Iraq. Bin laden manipulated us into wasting trillions on wars we could not win, he further infiltrated the SEC and DOJ so that they would look the other way when his agents on Wall Street looted and plundered trillions from Americans. Bin laden has the most powerful Lobby in DC. He controls most of our corrupt politicians. They serve at his pleasure.
Goddammitt!! somebody kill that motherf**fer before he completely destroys what's left of this country.
So close..actually it was Kaiser Soze and the Usual Suspects took the rap.
He totally ruined the Star Wars ep 1, 2 and 3. He's a sneaky bastard.
what was in building 7 ? heard somewhere that it was full of enron evidence.
At the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Salomon Smith Barney was by far the largest tenant in 7 World Trade Center, occupying 1,202,900 sq ft (111,750 m²) (64 percent of the building) which included floors 28–45. Other major tenants included ITT Hartford Insurance Group (122,590 sq ft/11,400 m²), American Express Bank International (106,117 sq ft/9,900 m²), Stamdard Chartered Bank (111,398 sq ft/10,350 m²), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (106,117 sq ft/9,850 m²). Smaller tenants included the Internal Revenue Service Regional Council (90,430 sq ft/8,400 m²) and the United States Secret Service (85,343 sq ft/7,900 m²). The smallest tenants included the New York City Office of Emergency Management, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Federal Home Loan Bank, First State Management Group Inc., Provident Financial Management, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The Department of Defense (DOD) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) shared the 25th floor with the IRS. Floors 46–47 were mechanical floors, as were the bottom six floors and part of the seventh floor.- Wikipedia
Enron did it! Oh, yeah!!!
Building 7 housed the enormous Aqua Buddha that Rand Paul worships. Or used to.
Apparently. Who knows, really.
Buildings self-combust all the time. They turn into dust when the Xerox machine catches fire. It's totally in the public record.
Here is the actual video of WTC 7 coming down, it's from a New York City TV station. The official story is that a chunk of concrete from WTC 1 or 2 crashed through the wall into a diesel fuel tank that was in the building which caught fire and exploded a Xerox machine which was next to Pillar 34 which was designed incoecrectly so as to cause a massive failure of all the other pillars all at the same time which caused the entire building to collapse instantaneously, or something like that:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/wtc7.html?q=wtc7.html
I incorporated a repair to that design flaw into the dog house I built this summer. Never can be too safe.
The Twin Towers where an afterthought, the Meat was in Building 7, that is why they blew it away even after the plane that was supposed to hit it crashed in Pensylvania, they erased decades of evidence(against them) all their shady deals and everything that could bring any1 behind bars miraclously evaporated in Building 7 and the Pentagon
Wrong. The Penn. plane was headed for the White House. Where Bush et al. were, at the time, not located....oh oh....
I now reply to myself. And then, there's the mystery "white" 4-engined jet sighted (by many, at the time, on news coverage) overflying the White House at medium altitude just about the time the Pennsylvania plane would have arrived. Think that one through.
'Bout time Chomsky realized his error. Took him long enough!
I wish he'd mention the pipeline thru Afganistan that the Taliban nixed, or the opium crop that the Taliban had reduced by 96% by early 2001. Maybe folks would listen...but focusing on lies that the Shrub told is safer.
Progress by Uncle Noam on this matter (9/11) is most welcome.
Chomsky is insightful & much of what he says/writes is wise and compassionate. Though some may revere him we should be very wary of deifying him with infallibility!
He should be seen in the spirit of the ancient Hebrew Prophets railing against the perfidy, iniquity & immorality of the ancient Israelites.
The Usurped States Of Amnesiacs witnessed the Coup d'Etat on 9/11 without the majority of the population even realising!
A simplified/factored-down 9/11 Meme-Equation:
(9/11 - NORAD) + {WTC1 + WTC2} + [WTC7 x WTF!] + (Pentagon - Plane + Missile) = COUP D'ETAT !!!
A Coup d'Etat conducted -
"In Plain Sight" with
"Shock & Awe"
"Sleight of Hand"
"Smoke & Mirrors"
by:
Mossad + "Elements" in the CIA, FBI, NSA, & the US Military / Industrial Complex, guided by malign hands of the Banking / Security Nexus ; aided, abetted & enabled by the
"Continuity of Government Protocols" & the
"Deep Government Structures" ;
Enthusiastically cheered on by the Corporate MSM (Faux-news of ABC/NNB/CBS et al) of the USA and the Zionist-Apartheid Entity.
The 1000+ page USA PATRIOT Act was all ready to go for "Immediate & Express Install" !
The Orwellian Acronym "USA PATRIOT Act" standing for : "Uniting & Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept & Obstruct Terrorism" Act, 2001.
Cui Bono!
"Though some may revere him we should be very wary of deifying him with infallibility!"
This is fair enough. As I said above, I feel he is totally rational/reasonable. I just grow tired of posters here slamming everyone. I come here to read other peoples thoughts, despite if I agree. But this constant attack on people in the public grows weary. Right/wrong, those are applied to actions, opinions on the other hand........
Speaking of the Mossad, it seems the Israelis knew about the recent "mail bombs" before everybody else.
http://publicintelligence.net/israel-knew-about-yemeni-package-bombs-bef...
But wait, wasn't it the Saudis who tipped us off?
I'm no math major, but something doesn't add up.
Israelis wish to allow these attacks because they make america sympathetic/empathetic to Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/report-netanyahu-says-9-11-terror-attacks-go...
The Taliban crushed the opium trade... oh yeah, you're informed!
Clue: Facts need reasons to be believed. As in evidence, not "it makes me feel good."
Since you're too lazy and ignorant to even use google, here's your answer for you:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6239734.stm
9-11 Deniers make me sick.
Fact: The Bush Administration gave the Taleban millions of dollars in 2001 for their success in stopping the opium business.
and the only WMD Saddam had was paying euros for oil.... which, for the FED, is worse than nukes....
"Bout time Chomsky realized his error. Took him long enough!"
In reference to what? If I'm not mistaken this has been his stance since the beginning. Do a quick youtube search for his talk at Stony Brook University. He talks about the pipeline.
Chumpsky says all kindsa shit
I'll never forget something that Chomsky said in an interview - "The only reason the powers that be let write me what I write is because I am part of the elite. They leave me alone because I am part of the power structure.
I was in University at the time. I had no friggin idea what he meant cause I grew up poor. I realized from his comment that my only chance for a better lot in life was to become part of this elite. Dumb ass kid I was.
Those words changed my life = cheers mate. Oh and trav7777 you'd be wise beyond your years to read his work.
Many many people learned of the horrors of US foreign policy by reading his work.
You are a great gift to America Noam
Good comment and it strikes a cord with me too, many on this site perhaps.
and trav7777 really stirred up a junk hornets nest there - not ever a bad thing.
i've had peripheral contact with chomsky - i like his comment - but i'd remember that many high level jewish profs often delude themselves they are part of the elite when they really probably aint.
If shit=unabridged truth, yeah, he says all kindsa shit.
Chumpsky says all kindsa shit
Yeah, but it takes balls to get out there and say it rather than spew "I told ya so" in comment sections...
Noam Chomsky; the man who has never been right about anything. That makes him a leading intellectual of the left. Makes sense to me.
"...mirror, mirror on the wall..."
Lt. Sunflower; the man who has never been right about anything. That makes him a leading intellectual... Makes sense to me.
Wow!
You've been here on ZH for 19 weeks and yet you're one and only post is a derogatory comment left on an article about 9/11.
Just a little too obvious who or what you are.