Dick Cheney also assured us that Iraq was involved in 9/11, even though the Baath government was secular and imprisoned militant Islamicists when they caught them.
True, but Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld et al. couldn't construct an effective narrative to make the connection in the public consciousness - that's when they pivoted to faked intelligence about WMD.
Robert Kagan (Victoria Nuland's husband) co-founded the neoconservative think tank in 1997 which was known as the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) with fellow Neocon William Kristol (Irving's son), Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Elliot Abrams, all of whom were destined for key positions in the Bush administration - with the exception of Kristol. PNAC became the outfit which wrote the faux-scholarly policy papers, and provided much of the intellectual energy, undergirding not only the unhinged Iraq invasion, but the broader neo-imperial strategy that’s brutally transformed the world and killed maybe millions.
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Through the work of the PNAC, from 1998, Kagan was an early and strong advocate of military action in Syria, Iran, Afghanistan as well as to "remove Mr. Hussein and his regime from power." After the 1998 bombing of Iraq was announced Kagan said "bombing Iraq isn't enough" and called on Clinton to send ground troops to Iraq. In January 2002, Kagan and Kristol falsely claimed in a Weekly Standard article that Saddam Hussein was supporting the "existence of a terrorist training camp in Iraq, complete with a Boeing 707 for practicing hijackings, and filled with non-Iraqi radical Muslims". Kagan and Kristol further alleged that the September 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence official several months before the attacks. The allegations were later shown to be false.
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What makes the Israeli connection indisputable was that PNAC was preceded a year earlier by a policy paper prepared for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, entitled, “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.” Its authors were a study group led by Perle which included Feith, David Wurmser and his Israeli wife Meyrav Wurmser and called for the removal of Saddam Hussein.
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Neocon war pig Bill Kristol and Scott Horton Debate U.S. Interventionism:
There has been enough evidence found to implicate the Saudi's, but we all know nothing will ever happen. The most logical theory, is the George W., desperate to be a better president than his father, set this in motion before he was elected. Or at least gave it tacit approval, if he even knew about it.
Barring that, follow the money. Who in the U.S. stood to gain the most from such a horrible terrorist act?
I had heard that also. I was in Afghanistan when I first learned that Saddam Hussein was making deals with the French and the Russians, at the exclusion of the Americans. I heard it on Al Jazeera in 2002, while I was there in country. One of the few times we got a good satellite signal from Qatar.
But, even with that, there were other back door deals going on, that set this up long before that. And like the Kennedy assassination investigation records, any evidence that would point to certain high level people being involved with this, will never see the light of day.
How many decades will it take for the masses to grasp that this thing that walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck....is a duck? Especially when the imperial media makes sure at this time every year to gather everyone around and cry crocodile tears while telling each other "This is not a duck"?
Thanks for your great work on this, and your earlier piece on it:
The fact that the story of Omar Al-Bayoumi is only now coming out is such a travesty. Adam Fitzgerald and I talked about it for a bit: https://substack.com/@libertarianoverwatch/note/p-206650911?r=48h772
Great journalism Kit!
Yes, but the Saudis are de facto allies of Israel and buttbois to the Empire and the petrodollar, so their involvement in 9/11 is swept under the rug.
Iraq had jack-all to do with 9/11, but Iraq was the Enemy du Jour in 2003, so Iraq was blamed.
Agfhanistan and Al Qaeda were blamed - Iraq was yellowcake and WMD. :)
Dick Cheney also assured us that Iraq was involved in 9/11, even though the Baath government was secular and imprisoned militant Islamicists when they caught them.
Remember this psycho Bush cracking jokes on the millions of people he killed in Iraq over a false pretext of "WMD"?
youtube.com/watch?v=T5YgJx8VGRA
True, but Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld et al. couldn't construct an effective narrative to make the connection in the public consciousness - that's when they pivoted to faked intelligence about WMD.
I dunno, they could fake WMD fairy tales but they couldn't fake 9/11 involvement?
I guess as 9/11 was a mass destruction to most Americans, the WMD lie was ‘close enough’?
Not sure I understand what you are saying here.
Robert Kagan (Victoria Nuland's husband) co-founded the neoconservative think tank in 1997 which was known as the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) with fellow Neocon William Kristol (Irving's son), Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Elliot Abrams, all of whom were destined for key positions in the Bush administration - with the exception of Kristol. PNAC became the outfit which wrote the faux-scholarly policy papers, and provided much of the intellectual energy, undergirding not only the unhinged Iraq invasion, but the broader neo-imperial strategy that’s brutally transformed the world and killed maybe millions.
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Through the work of the PNAC, from 1998, Kagan was an early and strong advocate of military action in Syria, Iran, Afghanistan as well as to "remove Mr. Hussein and his regime from power." After the 1998 bombing of Iraq was announced Kagan said "bombing Iraq isn't enough" and called on Clinton to send ground troops to Iraq. In January 2002, Kagan and Kristol falsely claimed in a Weekly Standard article that Saddam Hussein was supporting the "existence of a terrorist training camp in Iraq, complete with a Boeing 707 for practicing hijackings, and filled with non-Iraqi radical Muslims". Kagan and Kristol further alleged that the September 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence official several months before the attacks. The allegations were later shown to be false.
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What makes the Israeli connection indisputable was that PNAC was preceded a year earlier by a policy paper prepared for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, entitled, “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.” Its authors were a study group led by Perle which included Feith, David Wurmser and his Israeli wife Meyrav Wurmser and called for the removal of Saddam Hussein.
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Neocon war pig Bill Kristol and Scott Horton Debate U.S. Interventionism:
youtube.com/watch?v=LxdXqAkgOVs
I believe 9/11 was an inside job. A way to point the finger at Arabs. Too obvious.
It was absolutely an inside job.
TiL: Kit Klarenberg and Ken Klippenstein are different people
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There has been enough evidence found to implicate the Saudi's, but we all know nothing will ever happen. The most logical theory, is the George W., desperate to be a better president than his father, set this in motion before he was elected. Or at least gave it tacit approval, if he even knew about it.
Barring that, follow the money. Who in the U.S. stood to gain the most from such a horrible terrorist act?
It was planned so the US had an excuse to invade Iraq. Saddam was going to nationalise Iraq's oil fields and kick out the US oil corporations.
I had heard that also. I was in Afghanistan when I first learned that Saddam Hussein was making deals with the French and the Russians, at the exclusion of the Americans. I heard it on Al Jazeera in 2002, while I was there in country. One of the few times we got a good satellite signal from Qatar.
But, even with that, there were other back door deals going on, that set this up long before that. And like the Kennedy assassination investigation records, any evidence that would point to certain high level people being involved with this, will never see the light of day.
Yep. As always the criminals who planned it and hired the people to carry it out will get away with it.
How many decades will it take for the masses to grasp that this thing that walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck....is a duck? Especially when the imperial media makes sure at this time every year to gather everyone around and cry crocodile tears while telling each other "This is not a duck"?
Thanks for your great work on this, and your earlier piece on it:
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/04/18/9-11-hijackers-cia-recruits/
These Arabic names are not tribal Saudi names; mercenaries (Egyptian et al, probably)