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9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA the premise, it was clear that their
efforts would not be effective. Even in the pages of The Nation, it was
the neocon bully Christopher Hitchens, billed until only yesterday as
the "last Marxist," who seemed to carry the day, thanks to the refusal
of all the others to challenge the myth he shamelessly used to club them
into submission. Some governments found ways to leak their estimate of
Bush's alleged proof. One was the government of Pakistan, which had been
placed under a US war ultimatum to cooperate in an attack on
Afghanistan. Here the distinguished retired military leader General
Mirza Aslam Beg told an interviewer some months after the fact that the
"evidence" provided to Pakistan's Musharraf government "would not hold
in a court of law, because of the inherent weak- nesses." (EIR, December
10, 2001) In a newspaper interview, Gen. Beg insisted that the attacks
had been the work of highly-trained experts "who used high technology
for destruction." He argued that even ordinary trained pilots could not
have carried out the missions observed. (Nawa-Wagt, September 13, 2001)!
Egyptian strategic analyst Tal'at Muslim argued in al-Akhbar of Cairo
that the resources available to Arab and Islamic terror organizations
were "well below" what was plainly necessary to carry out operations on
the scale of 9/11. (September 13, 2001) In the Palestinian paper
al-Quds, Hatim Abu Sha'ban found that the US authorities were searching
for the perpetrators in entirely the wrong places. "They accused.. .the
least likely to be perpetrators in light of the operation's nature,
which requires great planning capabilities, knowledge of information,
and mobility on the part of the criminals who committed this terrorist
operation." (September 18, 2001) The Saudi government complained that
its citizens were being accused of crimes, but that the US had provided
no hard evidence. Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef said that he
viewed Osama bin Laden more "as a tool" than as mastermind of the
September 1 1 attacks. "He's at the top of the pyramid from the media
point of view, but from my personal views and conviction, I don't think
he's at the top of the pyramid," commented Prince Nayef. US officials
were claiming that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis. But Nayef noted
that "until now, we have no evidence that assures us they are related to
September 11. We have not received anything in this regard from the
United States." (New York Times, December 10, 2001) Some indication of
the problems encountered by the US bureaucracy in trying to pin 9/11 on
bin Laden were reflected in a Wall Street Journal article entitled
"Faint Trail: It's Surprisingly Tough To Pin Terror Attacks on the
`Prime Suspect."' Here the paucity of evidence was the dominant note.
Such evidence as did exist was largely circumstantial, the Journal
noted, such as ties of suspected ' Citations from newspapers of the Arab
and Islamic world are from Cameron S. Brown, "The Shot Heard Round the
World: Middle East Reactions to September I1," in Middle East Review of
International Affairs, vol. 5, no. 4, December 2001.