Twenty-eight pages of heavily redacted documents released in 2016 after being concealed from the public for 13 years established that Saudi intelligence officers funneled substantial amounts of money to the hijackers in the run-up to the 9/11 attacks, while assisting them with finding housing as well as flight schools to attend.
Yet the New
York Times continues to describe the Saudi monarchy, the principal financier
and sponsor of Islamic fundamentalist groups throughout the world, as “a
partner in combating terrorism.”
Sixteen years after 9/11: lies, hypocrisy and
militarism
The sixteenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks that killed more than 2,900 people in the United States were marked once again on Monday with ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center’s demolished Twin Towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania where one of four hijacked planes crashed as passengers fought to regain control of the aircraft.
Thousands gathered in New York City for
the solemn reading of the names of those who lost their lives to a criminal and
reactionary terrorist attack that served only the interests of US and world
imperialism, which ever since have exploited the events to justify wars of
aggression and attacks on democratic rights the world over.
The genuine emotions of sorrow and
remembrance shared by those who lost loved ones on 9/11 once again stood in
sharp contrast to the banality and hypocrisy of the official commemorations
staged by US officials.
This longstanding dichotomy reached a
new level with the main speech of the day delivered by the fascistic
billionaire con-man President Donald Trump at the Pentagon Monday. Trump, whose
first reaction on the day of the attacks was to brag—falsely—that the toppling
of the Twin Towers had made his own property at 40 Wall Street the tallest building
in lower Manhattan, delivered remarks that consisted of barely warmed-over
platitudes from previous addresses, repeated tributes to the American flag and
a vow to “defend our country against barbaric forces of evil and destruction.”
Trump repeated the well-worn cliché
that on September 11 “our whole world changed.” The phrase is meant to suggest
that the unending wars, police state measures and sweeping changes in American
political life over the past 16 years have all been carried out in response to
the supposedly unforeseen and unforeseeable events of September 11, having
nothing to do with anything that came before.
That this is a cynical and self-serving lie becomes clearer with
every passing year.
On the eve of the anniversary, new
revelations emerged linking Saudi Arabia, Washington’s closest ally in the Arab
world, to the preparation of the September 11 attacks, in which 15 of the 19
hijackers were Saudi citizens. The corporate media, which published nothing of
any significance on the anniversary, largely blacked out this new evidence.
The New York Times marked the anniversary with an editorial
detailing efforts by the New York City medical examiner to identify human
remains.
A federal lawsuit on behalf of the
families of some 1,400 of the 9/11 victims has presented evidence that the
Saudi embassy in Washington financed what was apparently a “dry run” for the
9/11 attacks in 1999. Two Saudi agents posing as students boarded an America
West flight from Phoenix to Washington, D.C. with tickets paid for by the Saudi
embassy. The lawsuit states that both men had trained in Al Qaeda camps in
Afghanistan with some of the 9/11 hijackers. While on the flight, the two asked
flight attendants technical questions about the plane that raised suspicions
and twice attempted to enter the cockpit, leading the pilot to carry out an
emergency landing in Ohio. Both men were detained and questioned by the FBI,
which decided not to pursue any prosecution.
This is only the latest in a long series of revelations that have
made it abundantly clear that the events of 9/11 could never have taken place
without substantial logistical support from high places. Despite the repeated
claims that the attacks “changed everything,” there has never been an independent
and objective investigations into how they were carried out. And, despite being
what is ostensibly the most catastrophic intelligence failure in American
history, no one was ever held accountable with so much as a firing or a
demotion.
What evidence has emerged makes it
clear that the 9/11 hijackers were able to freely enter the country and attend
flight schools despite the fact that a number of those involved had been
subjects of surveillance by the CIA and FBI for as long as two years before the
attack. Two of them actually lived in the home of an FBI informant.
Twenty-eight pages of heavily redacted documents released in 2016 after being
concealed from the public for 13 years established that Saudi intelligence
officers funneled substantial amounts of money to the hijackers in the run-up
to the 9/11 attacks, while assisting them with finding housing as well as
flight schools to attend.
While Saudi Arabia was the government
most active in carrying out the September 11 attacks, the involvement of Saudi
intelligence really means the involvement of a section of the American state
apparatus. This is not a matter of conspiracy theories, but established fact.
It is bound up with very real conspiracies involving the CIA, Afghanistan and
Al Qaeda going back to the Islamist group’s founding as an arm of Washington’s
dirty war against the Soviet-backed government of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Far from the attacks having “changed
everything,” they provided the pretext for acts of military aggression long in
preparation. In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet Union a decade
earlier, the ruling class initiated a policy developed to use US military might
to offset the decline of American capitalism on the world arena. Afghanistan
and Iraq were targeted to secure military dominance over two major oil- and
gas-producing regions on the planet, the Caspian Basin and the Middle East.
This thoroughly criminal enterprise,
justified in the name of 9/11’s victims, has claimed the lives of over 1
million Iraqis and hundreds of thousands of Afghans and unleashed the greatest
refugee crisis since the Second World War.
The invocation of a “war on terror”—passed down from Bush to Obama
and now to Trump—to justify these crimes has become not only threadbare, but
patently absurd. The results of 16 years of uninterrupted US wars of aggression
have included an unprecedented growth of Al Qaeda and related Islamist
militias, largely as a result of US imperialism’s utilization of these elements
as proxy ground forces in wars for regime change in Libya and Syria.
Moreover, the multiple wars and
interventions conducted by the Pentagon and the CIA, from North Africa to
Central Asia, can quickly metastasize into a global conflagration, with
Washington simultaneously threatening nuclear war against North Korea and
pursuing increasingly dangerous confrontations with its principal geo-strategic
rivals, Russia and China.
September 11 did not “change
everything,” but it did mark the beginning of an escalation of what George W.
Bush called the “wars of the twenty-first century,” that is, escalating
imperialist aggression that is leading mankind toward a third world war.
Were
the Saudis Behind 9/11?
By James Lewis
1. On September 9, 2017, Paul Sperry of the New York Post dropped
the biggest headline hint so far that, Yes, the Saudis plotted, trained,
funded, ordered, and covered up the assault on America on 9/11.
The headline does not come out and
actually say that the Saudis
committed the greatest anti-American civilian atrocity 16 years ago. It just
says that "the Saudis allegedly funded a "dry run" of the
9/11/01 attack two years before it was actually executed. But by now we know so
much supportive evidence that we might as well tell the whole truth.
Two years before the airliner attacks, the Saudi Embassy paid for
two Saudi nationals, living undercover in the US as students, to fly from
Phoenix to Washington “in a dry run for the 9/11 attacks,” alleges the amended
complaint filed on behalf of the families of some 1,400 victims who died in the
terrorist attacks 16 years ago."
Well, if you're a bank robber, and you go through a "dry
run" of the robbery two years before actually committing it, and
"somebody" then carries out the outrageous crime, chances are that
the dry runners and the perps are the same.
We have plenty of evidence of Saudi guilt for 9/11. We know that
the 17 Wahhabi (Saudi-indoctrinated) terrorists killed civilian cabin personnel
and pilots in those four "American" and "United" airplanes,
slitting their throats with utility knives, according to the ancient Koranic
war command, "you shall cut them at the neck."
We have seen plenty of actual beheadings on ISIS videos, and we
know that the Wahhabi priesthood in Saudi Arabia has endorsed ISIS for its
Nazilike murders, rapes, kidnappings, and sadistic treatment of innocent
children, women, and men wherever ISIS operate. It is vital for Americans to
understand that the war theology of "ISIS," "Al Qaida,"
"Al Nusrah", "Al Qaida in the Maghreb," on and on, are all
the same. The hierarchy that runs it from the Sunni Gulf States is the same,
the methodology is the same, the utter inhuman cruelty of killing innocents is
the same, the religious rationale is the same, on and on and on.
However, it should be understood that the Shi'ites of Iran run a
separate chain of command, with separate murderers, etc. We have two fanatical
enemies, both based in the war verses of the Koran, but they hate each
other to death. Donald Trump has just exploited that split between mass murderers
hailing from Sunni Islam, and the mass murderers coming from Shi'te Islam.
Trump is now in a formal alliance with the Saudis (and Israelis, and other
Sunni Gulf States) against Iran, the Shiite head of the monster.
During WW I the British brought the Saudis to power in order to
drive out the Ottoman Turks. British agent "Lawrence of Arabia" (T.E.
Lawrence) convinced the Arab speakers of the Arabia desert to rebel against the
Turks, supplying them with British arms and advice.
Saudi Arabia is always on the edge of collapse, because it is not
a modern nation, but a desert tribal federation.
The war theology of desert Islam has been well-described by now,
in excellent, scholarly sources freely available on the web.
In human tribal history, war theologies are not unusual. Japanese
State Shinto, which led to WW II, was based on Bushido a debased version
of the Samurai code. The Teutonic Knights were a similar war cult that
eventually led to Bismarck's Prussia, which then forced the unification of
the German-speaking provinces in the 19th century in a single, top-down
controlled Reich. Hitler's war started as a revenge for losing World War I.
Hitler came to power by peddling the "stab-in-the-back" myth to explain
Austro-Hungarian defeat in WWI.
Human tribal warfare is very common, as shown by anthropologist
Napoleon Chagnon, based on his field work with the Yanamamo of South America.
In human tribal history, up to 30% of adult males die in intergroup violence.
So war cults and martyrdom cults are part of human history. The Kim dynasty in
North Korea has always prepared for and encouraged war. Today, the Iranian
Muslims (Shi'a) constantly chant, "Death to America! Death to
Israel!" Terrorist groups like Hamas and Hizb’allah also raise their
children to kill any designated enemy, preferably through martyrdom. Successful
killer-martyrs are promised life eternal in Heaven, with all the virgins and
all that.
American liberals keep telling the world that such things could
not exist, because people are fundamentally good. They are utterly ignorant,
and "none so blind as will not see."
What happened on 9/11?
The attackers commandeered civilian passenger planes, and
suicidally flew them into the Twin Towers in Manhattan; a third passenger plane
was flown into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a fourth airplane crashed
when its passengers heroically rebelled against the throat-cutting murderers
and crashed in Pennsylvania. These assaults count as the biggest enemy attack
on American civilians in history. In the Geneva Conventions, the politically motivated murder of civilians is treated even
more seriously than surprise attacks on members of the military in
uniform.
These are the most likely hypotheses based on the evidence. But
we will not know the full truth until the 28 censored pages from the 9/11
Report are published. The U.S. media, which evidently colluded in the greatest
national security coverup, must now tell the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth. If any media outlet fails to cover this, American
patriots must simply boycott them and their owners and sponsors. This is a
question of national life or death.
2. Who did the coverup?
When the 9/11 attacks took place, none of our presidents, nor our
enormous Deep Government, nor any major news outlets told the truth.
As a result, even today, most Americans know little, except that
fake "Islamophobia" is a terrible thing. Americans need to learn the
truth and we must know the truth to understand that Jihad War that was launched
against us on that second Day of Infamy. No nation can protect itself against
future dangers if it only learns lies about previous acts of national aggression.
3. Who ran the coverup and why?
The 9/11 attack was covered up.
a. 9/11/ was not the first attack by Al Qaida and
its militant networks against the Twin Towers. There was an amazingly similar
truck bomb attack in 1993 by the same network, and some of the perps were
caught and sentenced to jail terms.
Andrew McCarthy of the National Review was the
federal prosecutor in that case, and has written extensively about it. McCarthy
has been one of the truth-tellers in a time of shameful lies and coverups.
Bill and Hillary Clinton knew about the failed truck-bomb attack
on the Twin Towers in 1993. We know that Bill was offered Bin Laden's head on a
platter by four different Arab regimes, in secret, and that he refused four
times. There is no question that the Clintons knew about the danger ahead of
time, and utterly failed to pursue Bin Laden's AQ network when there was still
time to knock them out. That abject cowardice is interpreted in war theologies
like desert Islam as a plain and obvious sign of weakness, and it always
increases the chance of more attacks. This is elementary logic about
hyperaggressive regimes.
Instead of revealing and mobilizing American public opinion
against a clear and obvious danger, the Clintons made money off it. The fact
that Huma Abedin has become Hillary's closest friend and assistant over the
last 20 years, and that Huma comes from a Muslim Brotherhood family that runs a
"charity" in the UK to promote Jihad, makes Huma, Hillary, and Bill
criminally liable. They owe the American People an explanation, and instead,
they have been taking tens of millions of dollars from known Jihad
sources.
We do not know whether Bush-Cheney knew about the danger of attack
ahead of time, but it seems unlikely. The assault happened early in the Bush II
administration, possibly before they were warned.
We have to understand that after 9/11, every major intelligence
agency in the world must have known who the perps were.
Former UCMC Commandant Jim Mattis has often said "There is
always treachery." It is a basic rule of war in his lifelong teachings.
The fact that Mattis is now SecDec shows where Trump is moving -- against
Jihad, finally, after decades of Democrat and RINO betrayal of the American
people in their greatest danger.
If you do not believe we are in very great danger today, consider
that Kim III now has ICBMs and nuclear weapons, and that Kim always works in
collusion with Iranian Jihad. North Korea is thought to have gotten its latest
mass murdering toy with cooperation from Tehran. Although Pakistan, which also
follows a Jihadist war theology, is another candidate.
On the honorable side, Admiral James Lyon (USN, Ret) has been
publicly warning against the Jihad being obviously waged against the U.S. (and
other "Christian" countries) by Jihad, both the Sunni and Shi'ite
imperial aggressors. I believe Adm. Lyons risked his life to expose the truth,
the last time at the Press Club in Washington, DC.
I believe that Donald Trump guessed or knew the truth, as an
international businessman, with his own intelligence sources. When Trump ran
for office, the Deep State freaked out, in fear of exposure, along with the
mass media, which also understood what was going on. The Democrats, the mass
media, and the Deep State are basically one.
The Obama Administration was clearly penetrated by pro-Jihad,
anti-American forces from the beginning. Obama all but publicly endorsed the
Jihad against America. The flagrant use of an Arabic name, instead of his given
name Barry Soetoro, is only one little sign. Another is the
"disguised" Shahada ring he has worn ever since his trip to Pakistan
as a college student with his Pakistani roommate. The Shahada is the oath of
loyalty to Islam. Deception is a major war tactic in Islam. Yet a third sign of
Obama's Jihad loyalties is his symbolically vital visit to a Muslim Mosque in
the waning days of his presidency; the mosque had a prominent sign (shown in
the New York Times) that "nothing is achieved without struggle." (The
Arabic word for "struggle" is Jihad.) The Obama years constantly
played in Muslim Jihadist hints, knowing that most Americans are utterly
ignorant about all that. It is part of Obama's personality disorders.
Valerie Jarrett (Obama's "alter ego") was brought up in
Iranian-style Islam (Shi'ite). She sold out U.S. and Western safety to Iran in
the infamous nuclear agreement.
OIL, OIL, OIL.
The Saudis controlled OPEC, the oil cartel. That gave them
worldwide price control, a sword hanging over the heads of all modern nations.
Jimmy Carter's Arab oil embargo showed how much power the desert tribes of
Arabia had. That is probably why they took the risk of assaulting the United
States, and then serially Britain, France, Spain, on and on.
Please note a few bottom lines:
1. The U.S. was betrayed over and over and over again by our
political class, by our Deep State, and by our media oligopoly.
I think the Bushes are patriots, but they also have major oil
connections.
2. Donald Trump has been brilliant, and he certainly comes across
as a genuine patriot. That is why the corrupt Deep State, and the even more
corrupt Democrats and media, hate Trump. But slowly, slowly, the truth has been
emerging in the Trump campaign, and then in the first Trump year. Without
American leadership against evil, the world is full of cowards and
traitors.
3. Saudi Arabia has now lost control of the price of oil. Trump's
vigorous opening up of U.S. energy has made a huge difference, because now we
have the biggest clout over the world price. That was a very deliberate move,
previously sabotaged by environmental fanatics who were probably bought off by
both kinds of Muslim oil regimes.
So yes, oil was a big part of the picture, but with the advent of
shale exploitation around the world, plus the American resurgence in domestic
energy production, we now have the upper hand.
September
11, 2017
Who are
our Real Enemies?
By Elise Cooper
A
good novel allows readers to learn and question, a gateway to world events.
Such is the case with Vince Flynn’s Enemy Of The State by
Kyle Mills. Flynn warned Americans on the dangers of Islamic terrorism in his
first CIA operative Mitch Rapp book, Transfer of Power,
published in 1999. This was two years before 9/11. Fast-forward eighteen years
and Rapp books still discuss the dangers of jihadists. Mills took the torch
from the late Vince Flynn, and has written a gripping novel about the Saudi
involvement with terrorism. This is where fiction blends with reality.
Mills
noted, “I thought about the redacted section from the 9/11 report that possibly
showed the Saudi involvement. After reading the book people will understand I
am not a big fan of the Saudis. Historically we have overlooked a lot of what
they do in order to keep alive our strategic relationship. They not only
support terrorism, but the schools that teach it. There is not much civil
liberties and human rights there. I always wanted to see them slapped down and
I enjoyed watching Mitch do it.”
It
is rumored that this portion of the report details contacts between Saudi
officials and some of the September 11 hijackers, checks from Saudi royals to
operatives in contact with the hijackers, and the discovery of a telephone
number in an Al Qaeda militant’s phone book that was traced to a corporation
managing an Aspen Colorado, home of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, then the Saudi
ambassador to Washington. The document is harsh in its criticism of Saudi
efforts to undermine American attempts to dismantle Al Qaeda in the years
before the September 11 attacks. Moreover, it portrays the F.B.I as generally
in the dark about the maneuverings of Saudi officials inside the United States
during that period.
In Enemy of The State, the CIA
operative Mitch Rapp is quoted, “How many times are we going to have to go
through this with them? We let them off the hook for the most deadly terrorist
attack in US history and now here we go again.” It sure seemed that way when
President Obama bowed before the Saudi King Abdullah at the opening of the G20
meeting in London in 2009.
Even
President Trump seemed to be softening on his view of the Saudis. His speech in
Saudi Arabia this May called them friends and allowed them to buy a
$110-million-dollar defense purchase. This is a far cry when during the 2016
campaign he called on them to provide troops and funds to fight ISIS.
A
powerful quote in the book shows the two sides of the Saudi regime, “It was a
country with sufficient resources to provide prosperous lives for its citizens
and to be a force of good throughout the region. Instead, these resources had
been used to enrich a handful of monarchs and to promote the cycle of violence
and misery that the Middle East was currently mired in.”
On
the one hand it appears that they are now committed to fighting terrorism.
Isobel Coleman, a Saudi expert for the Council on Foreign Relations, felt they
had a change of heart. She noted, “For a long time the Saudi state encouraged
Saudi men to fight Jihad. It was a heroic thing to do. The Saudis had a
profound change after they had to deal with internal terrorism.”
Yet,
on the other hand, Saudi Arabia is still denying any involvement in the
September 11th attacks even though fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were
Saudis. They even threatened to sell off $750 billion in U.S. assets if
Congress passes legislation allowing them to be sued for the Sept. 11, 2001
terrorist attacks, a move that could destabilize the U.S. dollar.
Bob
Graham, a former Democratic senator from Florida, says ISIS "is a product
of Saudi ideals, Saudi money, and Saudi organizational support." Graham
went on to say that ISIS represents a form of Wahhabi ideology, in which the
monarchy has lost control. He believes it is a cancer that now threatens the
kingdom, and that in order to stop ISIS the ideology must be dried up at the
source.
Nina
Shea, director of the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom, wrote,
”The Saudi government has given over its textbooks to the clerical Wahhabi
extremists that it partners with to maintain control of the country.” She
explained, each year, these textbooks speak of direct religious hatred,
violence and indoctrinate a war mentality. Yet, their role in advancing
Islamist extremist ideology has not been taken seriously as a U.S. national
security concern. Since 9/11, regardless of which party is in power, the State
Department has barely raised the issue and at times has even worked to cover up
their toxic content.
As
President Trump stated, "Muslim nations must be willing to take on
terrorism and send its wicked ideology into oblivion… Terrorists do not worship
God, they worship death.” Enemy Of The State shows how important it is for the
U.S. to make sure the Saudis continue to hold up their end of the relationship
by not promoting hatred against the West and stamping out the supporters of
terrorism. In a sense the book is a reminder to Americans that September 11th
should never be forgotten.
The author writes for American Thinker. She
has done book reviews, author interviews, and has written a number of national
security, political, and foreign policy articles.
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