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9/11 Synthetic Terror.- Made in USA Blair's dossier then went on for 16
of its 19 pages reciting the nefarious deeds of which bin Laden had been
accused: bin Laden has worked with the Taliban, attacked the USS Cole,
and bombed the US embassies in East Africa. He had doubtless issued
bloodthirsty calls for murder against the US and its citizens. As for
his purported claims of responsibility, they could simply be the ravings
of a megalomaniac. But none of this adds up to 9/11 or anything
approaching it. If working in favor of the Taliban were a crime, it
would have been necessary to indict Henry Kissinger, who lobbied
Congress in favor of Unocal's pipeline project there. And throughout the
argument, Blair relied on unnamed intelligence sources for most of his
material. When Blair finally got to 9/11, he proceeded through a chain
of unproven assertions, as signaled by a shift into the vagueness of the
passive voice: "Nineteen men have been identified as the hijackers from
the passenger lists of the four planes hijacked on September 11. At
least three of them have already been positively identified as
associates of al-Qaeda." (Blair 21) But all this means is that the FBI
is accusing them, which is wholly inadequate. From intelligence sources,
the following facts have been established subsequent to 11 September;
for intelligence reasons, the names of associates, though known, are not
given. In the run-up to 11 September, bin Laden was mounting a concerted
propaganda campaign amongst like-minded groups of people - including
videos and documentation - justifying attacks on Jewish and American
targets; and claiming that those who died in the course of them were
carrying out God's work. We have learned, subsequent to 1 1 September,
that Bin Laden himself asserted shortly before 11 September that he was
preparing a major attack on America. In August and early September close
associates of Bin Laden were warned to return to Afghanistan from other
parts of the world by 10 September. Immediately prior to I1 September
some known associates of Bin Laden were naming the date for action as on
or around II September. Since 11 September we have learned that one of
Bin Laden's closest and most senior associates was responsible for the
detailed planning of the attacks. There is evidence of a very specific
nature relating to Bin Laden and his associates that is too sensitive to
release. (Blair 22-23, emphasis added) All we have here is an exercise
in check kiting. The CIA had forwarded a bouncing check to MI-6, and
MI-6 had sent it back to Washington by simply citing the claims of the
CIA as fact, and covering the whole in a mantle of the Official Secrets
Act. It is perfectly plausible that bin Laden and his associates were
planning a terror attack on the US which seemed large to them. The
issue, once again, is their physical and technical ability to bring
about destruction in the places and on the scale observed. Blair's
document brought the central issue to a head when he asserted: