by Wyatt Peterson, The Unz Review:
On September 11, 2004, the New York Times published an opinion piece commemorating the third anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. The article began by acknowledging that key facts about what happened that day continued to be withheld by government agencies:
“In the three years since 9/11, we’ve begun to understand that it’s possible to know what happened without knowing what happened. It’s the difference between knowledge that is both private and communal. . . and knowledge that is truly public. Some of what we need to know publicly has been provided by the report of the 9/11 commission. Other answers are lacking.”
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These are extraordinary words from our nation’s newspaper of record. The suggestion that the American people should passively accept being lied to about a world-changing event by those elected to serve the public interest proves there was no intention on the part of the media to find out what actually transpired that day or to hold anyone accountable. Nearly 3,000 Americans were killed in broad daylight and an impossible explanation was force-fed to the world, yet just three years after the fact the Times could hardly be bothered to investigate who did it and why.
If America had an honest media, there is no way the perpetrators could’ve gotten away with their audacious attack and equally audacious cover story of ’19 Arabs with box cutters outwitting the most sophisticated technological superpower the world has ever known.’ An extraordinary amount of data exists proving the official story can’t possibly be true, but the media has done its best to ignore all of it while besmirching anyone who raises any inconvenient fact as a damnable ‘conspiracy theorist.’ Surprisingly, the BBC cast doubt on the official government story early on by reporting on September 23, 2001 that five of the nineteen ‘hijackers’ had turned up alive and well in places like Saudi Arabia and Morocco, and had been nowhere near New York City or Washington D.C. on the morning of 9/11. In spite of this stunning revelation, the names and faces of the men remain permanently fixed to the 9/11 legend, and the sensational story, like so many others, was hastily discarded down Orwell’s memory hole.
So, you might ask. . . who did it then? Who had the means, motive and opportunity to pull off a crime the magnitude of 9/11 and cover their tracks afterwards?
Well, for starters, we can safely rule out Osama bin Laden and his band of forty thieves in the Middle East. Those stumblebums had neither the sophistication nor the agency to carry out anything close to 9/11. In fact, the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist poster for Osama bin Laden never even mentioned a connection with 9/11, but only referred to the bombings of two U.S. embassies in 1998. When asked by a reporter why this was, the FBI’s Chief of Investigative Activities, Rex Tomb, replied: “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Osama bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.” Unbeknownst to many Americans, Osama bin Laden was on the CIA payroll in the 1980s during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and his family has longstanding business ties to some prominent Establishment insiders. (In 1978, George W. Bush and Osama’s brother Salem bin Laden founded a Texas-based oil company called Arbusto Energy. The bin Ladens and Bushes were longtime business partners.)
Highly charged terror events like 9/11 depend on smoke and mirrors to deceive the target audience. The tall, swarthy, turban-headed bin Laden was — for Americans — the perfect archetype of what a terrorist looks like. Hollywood spent many years planting this image in the public mind in the lead up to 9/11 and its duplicitous ideation had the intended effect. Brian Jenkins of the Rand Corporation said in 1974: “Terrorism is aimed at the people watching, not at the actual victims. Terrorism is theater.” It’s important to keep these words in mind when examining 9/11 and other similar events, many of which are explained to the public via Israeli agents like Rita Katz at SITE Intelligence Group.
