One of the most under-reported findings of the joint congressional inquiry into the suicide hijackings of 9/11, published July 24, is that U.S. intelligence had no evidence that Iraq was involved in the attacks or that it supported the al-Qaeda terrorist network that planned and carried them out. This disclosure contradicts the Bush administration, which cited links between Saddam Hussein’s… return to article
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Reader Comments (17)Page 1 of 1 pagesThis president, or rather this entire administration, is a master at the art of subterfuge. Like magic Bush gets elected despite losing both the popular vote and the state of Florida. Watch closely what is happening now but don’t be fooled by what you are told is happening. For instance the slaughterhouse-style killing of the sons of Saddam - what does that tell you? Quite simply, Saddam Hussein is dead and the US military knows it. They would never have wiped those two out like that if they were really looking for Saddam. They could easily have been taken alive and provided much invaluable information as to the location of Saddam. Unless of course they know that he is already dead.
Well, what about the videotapes you may ask, doesn’t the CIA confirm that that was really the voice of Saddam? Just who do you think concocted this deception I would answer.
Why would they want to do that you may wonder? Think about it. Do you really think there would be more resistance or less if the people of Iraq knew for sure that Saddam was done for and gone for good. His fanatical calls for resistance combined with the rumors being spread that he is still alive will only create doubts and fears and ultimately dependence on American protection from the evil one. Do you really believe that Saddam could be alive and making movies and tapes when everyone that was close to him have been eliminated and captured? What is this, Superman? I don’t think so. The truth is that Saddam’s health has been detoriating for a while and the US knew about it, and they really feared, not that Saddam’s cruel reign would go on, but what would follow him? How did the US find out that Saddam is dead then? Quite simply, someone called on his cell phone one day, April 26, to be exact and told them where Saddam was. He left his bunker. He was mortally wounded from the precision target bombs and died a few days later at which time the caller called back to confirm the kill.
Some people claim that the war can’t be called a success until Saddam is confirmed dead. Well there were rumors that Hitler was still alive for decades after WWII and that did not change anything as far as the outcome of that war.
Roger Lafontaine
Youngstown, OH 44512
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Posted by Roger Lafontaine on Aug 4, 2003 at 5:36 PM An excellent article. The sons’ deaths did sidetrack a new relentlessness in the press regarding those 16 words. And, the Press corps was uncharacteristically quiet...no nervous laughter followed even one of the president’s jokes. Your article reminded me in tone of a reply of Noam Chomsky’s. When asked by a young college student: “what if the White House, for example, were convinced that the Iraq war was immoral? “ He answered that she was trying to speak ‘truth to power’ and she should save her energy. “Power,” he observed, ‘knows the truth."l
Posted by Jeohawk on Aug 4, 2003 at 7:43 PM “Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some
catastrophic and catalyzing event ñ like a new Pearl Harbor.”That’s from page 51 of ‘Rebuilding America’s Defenses’ from the Project for the New American Century website. Don’t know who the PNAC are? Right now they are the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government. Get to know them: http://www.newamericancentury.org/ ...its all there. Check the names at the bottom of the Statement of Principles.
Michael
Posted by Michael on Aug 4, 2003 at 9:52 PM Fact: We here in the U.S. cannot be protected at all times. We have our own home grown terrorist that blow buildings up and shoot up our schools....and we don’t point fingers at the President for those acts...so why point fingers now at something that is only the tip of the iceburg on ways that a terrorist could work. New steps are being taken daily at differnt facilitys around the world to prevent a thing like 911 to happen again. But face it....you are only has secure as you want to feel. Anything can happen anywhere any day in this fast moving world and to hold a President responsible for this act is ludicrous. I saw a special on one of the news shows about a year prior to 911 where the head of the NSA was begging for our help on what to do about Osama. They were out of date on equipment and codecracking was becoming impossible with all the new incryption software. He addmitted then that it was impossible to keep up with them due to several facters that I won’t go into but the hour long show was right on the money a year later. They couldn’t keep up then so it will take a while now change will not happen overnight like we would like but eventually things will get better as more people understand the workings of the organizations and have the ability to see when a new one is emerging.
Posted by Chris Adams on Aug 4, 2003 at 11:32 PM “Mild rebuke” is right. That is all this congress ever give W. What a bunch of whimps!
Posted by Sandra Boynton on Aug 5, 2003 at 6:14 PM When the U.S ceases to hold the people of Saudi Arabia hostage,
Saudis will cease to have any reason to retaliate against her.
Remember the French in Algiers? Once they ceased occupation, the bombs stopped exploding in Paris.This is going to get worse until U.S. forces give the nod to release States like S.Arabia, S.Korea and Japan from their deadly embrace.
Posted by Matthew Quinn on Aug 6, 2003 at 6:44 AM This is then most frightening bunch to hold this kind of power since Stalin or Hitler. Americans had better and smell the Texas Cow pattie. America, The United States, is now a religion for the neocons and their pal in the White House. George Bush and his gang are far more a danger to Americans than some nutty Arab in a cave somewhere, if he is anywhere. He sure pops up at the most convenient times for the Bush administration. Just in time to remind us of the danger we all face. I have reached the end of my tether, as the Brits would say. I am out of here!
Posted by Dot Dedman on Aug 8, 2003 at 5:14 PM What scares me the most is not the spins and lies the Bush administration are handing out, but the seeming willingness of the vast majority of Americans to swallow them. When Osama bin Laden didn’t come skipping out to be captured as Bush would have liked him to do, another scapegoat was needed to pin the whole WTC thing on--and suddenly Saddam Hussein’s name began popping up in the trusty TV media. After all, we couldn’t blame our bestest buddies in Saudi Arabia--not with all those lucrative oil deals we have going with them. If it costs too much to fill up the SUV, people start whining, you know. Saddam was the nearest available “threat to America,” and before you could say, “Hey, weren’t most of the hijackers of Saudi descent?” the talking heads had Middle America believing that Saddam and Osama were thisclose.
I really don’t think Saddam is dead. Judging by the way the sons’ corpses were paraded around, if Saddam had gotten nailed they probably would have had his corpse dragged down Fifth Avenue in NYC by someone dressed up like the Statue of Liberty and belting out “God Bless America,” followed by a ceremonial crucifixion at Ground Zero.
Posted by Patricia Beninato on Aug 9, 2003 at 7:48 PM Saddam Hussein is not dead. But you can bet if the U.S. tracks him down, they will have absolutely no interest in taking him alive. Bush does not want Saddam to face a war crimes trial and have the opportunity to tell the world about how Dad Bush and Reagan were supplying him with chemical weapons back in the Iran/Iraq war. Saddam has too many American secrets to reveal for Bush to let him live.
As far as the 9/11 report and that it found no evidence of Saddam’s involvement, gee, hardly a surprise! Only the hynotized Bush followers ever believed that.
Posted by Jon Barber on Aug 11, 2003 at 7:55 AM Slight of hand, smoke and mirrors, are we governed by responsible leaders or a troupe of magicians? It would seem magicians, for they were able to make the truth disapear.
Posted by e sorensen on Aug 12, 2003 at 8:50 AM Im fascinated by this often stated sentence ‘most of the hijackers were of saudi origin’. Does this mean the whole of the Saudi population should be punished for the crimes of a few. I’m sure we could come up with plenty of Americans, Irish, Israelis, Pakistani, Indian, Russians and every other nationality that have been responsible for mass murder and that includes bush and his gang; does that justify an attack on their country. I think not.
Posted by Gv on Aug 14, 2003 at 4:47 AM An interesting perspective, but I find myself continually amazed at how otherwise intelligent people continue to write articles containing the same disinformation. At least 7 of the hijackers are known to have been using false identification by the simple fact that the persons whose identifications they used are still alive. So why does the media keep up with the “19 Arabs and 15 Saudis” nonsense? It isn’t true and doesn’t even make sense. Why would terrorists fake IDs that would direct retaliation at their own homes?
Perhaps the most critical aspect of the Congressional Inquiry is the ludicrous case against Osama bin Laden. In 850 pages the only evidence amounts to someone who may have been identified as knowing bin Laden was at a meeting the hijackers attended. That’s it. We don’t know if the identification is accurate and the report even states this person was miss identified in a previous report, and even assuming the person was properly identified there is nothing to substantiate a connection to the hijackers other than being in the same location at the same time.
My question to anyone who claimes to be a reporter would be: Why do you keep repeating patently false and unsubstantiated claims from a source, while happily pointing out how unreliable that same source has already proven to be?
Posted by Don Earl on Aug 14, 2003 at 4:37 PM I am reading about this on many internet news links, why is nothing being done to make this administration accountable. I am so discouraged that those in government who can and should do something are not. This is a criminal administration pandering to corporate greed, they’ve added to the misery in the world, and created chaos and misery for us. Everyone I know is disgusted, angry, and wants them held accountable.
Posted by denisedecarlo on Aug 15, 2003 at 1:11 PM Now...Bush (as I see it) is going under the Like father Like son ordeal. Daddy Bush had to go and be president and so did he, no matter what the expense, same with haveing a “big war” and the other Bla bla bla… Bush thinks that the war will keep his name in every mind in the U.S. as well as around the world… Well I don’t have to same much to say that Bush saw what this war would do to our economy as well as reputation( being “good” at first then people see that we have no one to blame anymore and it is always an ALMOST ordeal. with a side of publisity) and he thinks(to himself) that maybe just maybe if they let me go for one more term then everyone would see that I might have a chance to may it all better… I will say this behind every great president there was and always will be a great woman. Look at Bill Clinton We had a suplus and Bush wanted to give it all to the people when we have people living in deep poverty here still. I know that it shall always remain that way no matter how hard we try but think of how we couold help ourselves with out worrying about the middle East untill we have HARD CORE EVIDENCE showing what they have to do harm to us. We will never be protected at every moment of our days and yet you’ll never know when something Bad may happen to you as an individual so worry about over here within the U.S. befor tyring to become an empire. That is why this nation was settled to get away from the empire back in England so why be hipocritical and impose something on others that we did not want to impose on ourselves? I am sorry If there are people out there that don’t agree with what I have said but I am being honest. Have a good day to all and stay away from snakes.
Posted by Aliana on Aug 25, 2003 at 10:44 AM “After all, 15 of the 19 suicide hijackers hailed from Saudi Arabia, which also is the home of the militant brand of Islam (the Wahabi sect) that animates al-Qaeda’s fanaticism.”
This is disinformation.
It has never been proven that “15 of the 19 hijackers” came from Saudi Arabia. Actually, up to 9 of the “hijackers” who were named, turned up alive and well. This info is not new, and it came out in September of 2001 (BBC, LONDON TELEGRAPH). Robert Mueller, head of FBI admitted as much, “The identities of some of the hijackers is in question.”
So why do news sources keep repeating the unsubstantiated story?
More importantly, why isn’t the connection to Pakistan’s ISI EVER mentioned?
We know that the head of the Pakistan intelligence service financed the 9-11 terror attacks!
We also know that he was in Washington meeting with the heads of the house and senate intelligence services during the attacks.
And we know that this subject is completely missing from all official reports of the 9-11 attacks.
Can anyone say, “smoking gun?”
Look here:
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/mahmoodahmed.html
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/saeedsheikh.html
Posted by General Mahmoud Ahmad on Aug 30, 2003 at 3:47 PM The corporate mass media is not cowardly, it is thoroughly corrupted by corporate greed.
Posted by Bob James on Aug 30, 2003 at 7:00 PM I am constantly amazed that the ‘liberal media’ does not investigate this administration when they get stonewalled and/or lied to. Everyone on the street can quote the right wing talk show political opinions, yet very few people know the facts. The radio talk show hosts like Rush, Laura, the rest merely regurgitate the administration’s misinformation. No one is out there in any major TV, radio, or newspaper media doing any investigative journalism. If they are investigating the news events, nothing is making it to the people. To find out the truth about elections, the economy, or the war(s) you have to look in the foreign media. I wonder how more open our media is than the Mid east media. I guess I’ll have to check with England and the rest of Europe.
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