Six years gone, questions about 9/11 mount
Six years since the attacks of 9/11, questions about that day continue to mount. For example, in an interview from August of 2006, the vice-chair of the 9/11 Commission recounts his puzzlement at the motivations of the 19 so-called attackers:
Solomon: What are yours? What are your unanswered questions?
Hamilton: Well, at the top of my list happens to be a personal one, and that is, I could never figure out why these 19 fellas did what they did. We looked into their backgrounds. In one or two cases, they were apparently happy, well-adjusted, not particularly religious – in one case quite well-to-do, had a girlfriend.</em>
Since this interview was conducted in Canada, where the press still are allowed to ask follow-up questions, the interviewer presses Hamilton on exactly who were those 19 men, since some of them have appeared alive and well after 9/11. Hamilton laughs it off:
Hamilton: (Laughs) What’s the evidence? Look, I had a woman come up to me who said she was a lover of Mohammed Atta. And I said, ‘do you know that he’s dead?’ And she said, ‘I’m his lover.’ .. (raises eyebrows)
You get all kinds of comments like this, you can’t trace everything down.</em>
Apparently, bin Laden is confused as well:
New Bin Laden Video Appears On Web
The video features a statement from Waleed al Shehri, who was aboard American Airlines Flight 11 which crashed into the World Trade Centre.
Except that he wasn’t:
Hijack ‘suspects’ alive and well
Another of the men named by the FBI as a hijacker in the suicide attacks on Washington and New York has turned up alive and well.
The identities of four of the 19 suspects accused of having carried out the attacks are now in doubt. Saudi Arabian pilot Waleed Al Shehri was one of five men that the FBI said had deliberately crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the World Trade Centre on 11 September.
His photograph was released, and has since appeared in newspapers and on television around the world. Now he is protesting his innocence from Casablanca, Morocco. </em>
This account was dated 9.23.2001. We have known that the “suspect” list shown to the world immediately after the attacks is wrong almost from the moment it was released.
So why didn’t the 9/11 commission know it, or investigate claims that the list was wrong?
And why is bin Laden talking about this person? Surely the “mastermind” of the “plot” would have some knowledge about the fates of those he commanded to attack us, right?
Right?
There are too many questions about the single most pivotal day in American history left unanswered. Since that day thousands more Americans have died, hundreds of thousands Iraqis and Afghanis slaughtered, our military stretched almost to collapse, terrorism on the rise, and our economy circling the drain.
All because of a conspiracy theory trotted out by our government, meant to be accepted without question. A government that lies, steals, and insults the intelligence of its citizens on a hourly basis. And we’re supposed to accept this fairy tale of terror?
