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9/11 Synthetic Terror.- Made in USA FBI agent Robert Wright told ABC
News (December 19, 2002) that FBI headquarters wanted no arrests. And in
November 2001 the US airforce complained it had had al-Qaeda and Taliban
leaders in its sights as many as 10 times over the previous six weeks,
but had been unable to attack because they did not receive permission
quickly enough (Time Magazine, May 13, 2002). None of this assembled
evidence, all of which comes from sources already in the public domain,
is compatible with the idea of a real, determined war on terrorism.
(Michael Meacher, "This war on terrorism is bogus." The Guardian,
September 6, 2003) This is by all odds the most powerful critique of the
9/11 myth to come from an elected official in Britain. One senses the
spirit of Tony Benn, the indomitable leader of the Labour left, who gave
Meacher moral support. As for Claire Short, when asked in an interview
if there was any common ground between Meacher's critique of Blair and
her own, she nervously replied that Meacher had taken himself completely
"out of the mainstream." PAUL HELLYER REJECTS THE US ORTHODOXY Another
high-ranking skeptic on the official US account was Paul Hellyer, who
had been Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada in three
Liberal Party governments of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Because of this, he
brought the expertise of a top-ranking NATO insider to the question
under consideration. Some years later, in 2004, Hellyer told an
interviewer: "Terrorism is a terrible thing, but this was a police
problem and an intelligence problem. What was wrong with your
intelligence? Why didn't you know this was going to happen? You spend
billions and billions with spooks all over the world and surely you
should have known what was going on. And, so I began to be concerned
about that. And then questions were raised by others. Why did the
President just sit in the schoolroom when he heard the news? Why did he
not acknowledge that he already knew what was going on? As a former
Minister of National Defense, when the news came out I had to wonder.
Why did airplanes fly around for an hour and a half without interceptors
being scrambled from Andrews [Air Force Base]? Isn't Andrews right next
to the capital?... With a quick action alert they should have been there
in five minutes or ten minutes. If not, as the Minister of National
Defense, which in the United States is the Secretary of Defense, I would
want to say `why not?"' (911 Visibility.org, May 27, 2004) POVERTY OF
PHILOSOPHY If ever the world needed voices of reason and wisdom, it was
in the traumatized days after 9/11. There were still persons in the
world who aspired to the title of philosophers; were they able to
provide humanity with any guidance? The picture was bleak. Jurgen
Habermas, the most prominent representative of