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On '''September 11, 2001''' hijacked planes were flown into the Pentagon and the [[World Trade Center]]; another hijacked plane was diverted into a field in Pennslyvania. The collapse of the Trade Center's twin towers killed about 3000 people that day, and released [[asbestos]] and [[toxic waste]] into the air.
It was "some catastrophic and catalysing event - like a new Pearl Harbor" [http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf], [http://cryptome.org/rad.htm#V] indeed. Thirty months later, the
The [[Bush Administration]] has shown nothing but contempt for subsequently been embarrassed by a genuine discovery stream of revelations about failure by government agencies and officials to respond to intelligence leads and warnings about the root possibility of a terrorist attack. These failings have fuelled many [[conspiracy theories]] that Bush had prior warning and direct causesdid nothing.
The most common theme in these is that the attacks were an elaborate deception partially perpetrated by the military/intelligence complex to galvanize the public to support endless wars, especially in the Middle East oil fields, and failures domestic repression under the guise of Homeland Security. [http://users.adelphia.net/~earthwatch/] [http://www.justiceforwoody.org/re911/papers/volumev3.html]
In the aftermath of procedure and policythe attacks, the Bush Administration launched massive military action in Afghanistan - which precipitated this eventhosted bin Laden at the time - and subsequently Iarq. RatherMasked by a climate of fear, they use the occasion as a tool series of sweeping domestic 'security' measures, which were widely criticised by which civil liberites groups as leading to fuel an environment of fear & loathing, and build upon the a [[National Security State]], were also introduced. While Bush launched a massive domestic and international program reacting to the attacks, there has been little official reflection on their root causes or the failures of procedure and policy, which precipitated this event.
Viewed as a single event, at least two discordant perspectives exist:
*"terrorist attacks on New York and Washington"
*counter-strikes against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon terrorists
Both sides of this story make exactly the same claims against the other side, each claiming for themselves a divine right and labelling the other as '[[evil]]'. In that way, both sides of this story are nearly indistinguishable from each other.
The only winner in this non-debate is the [[military-industrial complex]].
There is no consensus about whether this event could be properly classified as:
*a crime
*an act of warfare, by response or inception
[http://www.oilempire.us/understanding.html Understanding 9/11: Incompetence, Blowback, Pearl Harbor or Reichstag Fire?] analyzes each of the paradigms offered to describe the "event that changed the world." concluding that 9/11 was not an intelligence FAILURE, it was an intelligence CRIME.
*[http://www.cooperativeresearch.org Center for Cooperative Research "timeline" of 9/11 sourced from the mainstream media, including warnings]
Manhattan's air was bad for months and the [[Environmental Protection Agency]] was forced to shut up about this - advocates of letting the public know about the health hazards were placed on the [[no-fly list]]. The death toll from lung and related problems is expected to eventually dwarf the death toll from the actual attack.
*[http://www.septembereleventh.com 9/11 Visibility project]
*[http://www.911sharethetruth.com Peace Resource Project - buttons and stickers for 9/11 awareness]
===9/11 and oil===
*[[George Monbiot]], [http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16516 Post-9/11 America Is a Religion], ''Alternet'', July 30, 2003.
*Eric Alterman, [http://thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20031006&s=alterman 9/11/01: Where Was George?], ''The Nation'', October 6, 2003.
Also see:
*[http://www.peacefultomorrows.org/index.html September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows].
*[http://911citizenswatch.org/ 9/11 Citizens Watch].
*[http://www.911ea.org/ 9/11 Environmental Action].
Those who have fully studied the issues and facts concerning 9/11 and the Bush administration's inexplicable coverup and lies understand rationally that this is not a topic of "conspiracy theory" but instead a true scandal of serious proportions. This can no longer be denied. It is a scandal which, if aggressively pursued by the media, should have helped hamstring and sideline the Bush administration months ago, which would have made it politically impossible for them to push ahead with their war plans in the first place.
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