posted on February 1, 2002 10:30:32 PM new
Maybe there's a Canadian who can give background on this media outlet that has asked the question, on television, that is never asked here?
This is excerpted from the full transcript of a TV broadcast aired a couple of days ago in Canada. Because I do not know anything about the source I'm posting this without comment.
The second link requires realplayer.
On Monday, 28 January 28, 2002, "Insight MediaFile," available on
Vision TV in Canada, will try to answer the following question: "What
Happened on 9/11 and why aren't the mainstream media asking that
question?"
On the last edition of "Insight MediaFile" (first broadcast on 21 January)
the show's host -- media critic Barrie Zwicker -- dared to suggest in his
weekly commentary that the CIA, Pentagon and White House may be
complicit in the horrendous events of Sept. 11th, 2001.
That commentary was the first in a series on MediaFile that will deal with
this important issue. MediaFile is perhaps the first current affairs TV
program in Canada to raise this possibility.
What really happened on Sept. 11th? 9/11 - Part 1
"For four months I've been waiting in vain for the North American media
to pursue questions about the startling events of September 11th. Hereís
what I want to know:
The multiple hijackings are unprecedented. The first occurs at 7:45 in the
morning. Itís a full hour before the first plane hits the World Trade
Center. But itís an hour and 20 minutes -- and after the second plane hits
ñ that the President allegedly becomes informed. Think about that.
Then, he gives no orders. Why? He continues to listen to a student talk
about her pet goat. Why?
Itís another 25 minutes until he makes a statement, even as flight 77 is
making a bee-line for Washington, DC.
In the almost two hours of the total drama not a single U.S. Air Force
interceptor turns a wheel until itís too late. Why? Was it total
incompetence on the part of aircrews trained and equipped to scramble in
minutes?
Well, unlike the U.S. Air Force, Iíll cut to the chase. Simply to ask these
few questions is to find the official narrative frankly implausible. The
more questions you pursue, it becomes more plausible that thereís a
different explanation: namely, that elements within the top U.S. military,
intelligence and political leadership ñ which are closely intertwined ñ are
complicit in what happened on September the 11th.
Why U.S. complicity, you ask?
Well, to stampede public opinion into supporting the so-called war on
terrorism, to justify a war on Afghanistan for a future oil pipeline, the
grab for Middle East oil, big budget increases for the military, and the
general drive for global domination by the American Empire.
posted on February 2, 2002 08:49:29 AM new
Vision T.V. is one of the dozens of low-budget specialty channels that have popped up in recent years. I've never watched it so have no comment.
(Off-topic to KRS: I found this site while browsing the web.)
posted on February 2, 2002 04:20:48 PM new
Thanks KRS and Helen for those links and reports. It is unthinkable to me that such a conspiracy existed with full knowlege by the White House and the military. Still, as I have reported in the RT before, the only people suprized at the real Pearl Harbor were the victims.
For those of you who may not know it, but there were many reports of sightings of the Japaneese fleet sailing in a stroght line towards Pearl Harbor and that the US government, millitary, and White House had been informed several days ahead. It was only just the day before the fleet arrived that the aircraft carriers were ordered to go out on unscheduled manuevers, and thus, were not sunk like our battleships were.
When I was a floor salesman for a retail firm in the early 1980's, an old Dutch sailor used to drop by once in a while. He told me that he was serving onboard a Dutch merchantman that happened to come close to the path of the Japaneese fleet sailing towards Hawaii. The captain ordered that the radioman send an immediate warning to the United States, giving heading, speed, and compostion of the fleet. When this warning was receioved in Washington D.C. two days before the attack, the response ws a very cold "thank you" and that was it. The sailor remembered his captain sadly shaking his head and saying, "God help them."
So ...
Is it unthinkable that Dubya and Co. (GOP) knew ahead of time what was about to happen? How likely is it? And if it is proved to be true, how will you feel?
posted on February 2, 2002 05:00:09 PM new
Borillar
The story that you related about the sailor is chilling.
Absolutely nothing will surprise me at this point. Bush is a loose cannon and the fact that he can wage a war without congressional approval is so frightening to me. Don't you think that this option should be corrected PDQ?
My daughter, in the course of her job, meets frequently with people in the Pentagon. On the day of the terrorist attack, she was at work and she mentioned that she had noticed a heightened state of alert at the Pentagon. I believe that they were expecting something. It should boggle anyone's brain to think that with our massive intelligence agencies at work, that nobody knew nothing.
I am not saying that Bush knew exactly what was going to happen but I believe that he and our intelligence agencies knew that a terrorist attack was imminent.
In my opinion, the war was in the works for a long time before the terrorist attack.
Part three of the broadcast should be interesting.
