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9/11 Synthetic Terror. Made in USA Secretary Powell: I am absolutely
convinced that the al Qaeda network, which he heads, was responsible for
this attack. [...] Question: Will you release publicly a white paper,
which links him and his organization to this attack, to put people at
ease? Secretary Powell: We are hard at work bringing all the information
together, intelligence information, law enforcement information. And I
think, in the near future, we will be able to put out a paper, a
document, that will describe quite clearly the evidence we have linking
him to the attack. And also, remember, he has been linked to previous
attacks against US interests and he was already indicted for earlier
attacks against the United States.
(www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2001/5012.htm) The following day, September
24, saw a front-page article in the New York Times which bragged that
Powell's evidence "reaches from the southern tip of Manhattan to the
foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan." However, there
was clearly something wrong with this; since Powell somewhat obliquely
retracted his promise in an appearance with Bush at the White House rose
garden, also on September 24. And on that same afternoon, Bush's
spokesman Ari Fleischer, a past master of mendacity, said that Powell
had been the victim of a misunderstanding. No white paper would be
forthcoming, he suggested. According to Fleischer, much of the
information on bin Laden was classified, and making it public would
compromise US intelligence methods and sources. Even the press trollops
in the White House briefing room rebelled at this attempted sleight of
hand. A reporter challenged An, asking if there was in fact "any plan to
present public evidence so that the average citizen, not just Americans,
but people all over the world can understand the case against Bin
Laden." Fleischer disappeared in a cloud of verbiage: "In a democracy
it's always important to provide the maximum amount of information
possible. But I think the American people also understand that there are
going to be times when that information cannot immediately be
forthcoming." As of this writing, it still has not been forthcoming.
Bush himself rejected any white paper. He said that any such publication
may "make the war more difficult to win." (AP, September 24, 2001)
Amidst much embarrassment, the Bush regime quickly fell back on the
following ploy: they would assemble a watertight case against bin Laden,
but this was so sensitive that it could only be shown to governments. We
must always bear in mind that these assertions were not presented in the
manner of a scholarly debate, but as part of brutal pressure on
sovereign states to yield to Bush's Manichean Diktat. Even though Bush
did not have enough information on the 9/11 events to put out a credible
white paper, he nevertheless ordered the FBI to curtail their
investigation of the case. The FBI order to stop probing described the
investigation done so far as "the most exhaustive in its history." A
government