by Enver Masud
[Watch Enver Masud rebut The 9/11 Commission Report in a
television interview broadcast to Sub-Saharan Africa.]
The FBI's "Most Wanted Terrorists" web page does not state that Bin Laden is
wanted for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon.
The FBI page states:
"Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings
of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi,
Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people. In addition, Bin Laden is a
suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the world."
When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on the FBI's web page, Rex Tomb,
the FBI's Chief of Investigative Publicity, is reported to have said,
"The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden's Most Wanted
page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11."
In the months leading up to the Septmber 11, 2001 attack, it is reported,
the Taliban "outlined
various ways bin Laden could be dealt with. He could be turned over to the
EU, killed by the Taliban, or made available as a target for Cruise
missiles." The Bush administration did not accept the Taliban's offer.
"On September 20, 2001," according to the Guardian, "the Taliban offered to hand Osama bin
Laden to a neutral Islamic country for trial if the US presented them with
evidence that he was responsible for the attacks on New York and Washington.
The US rejected the offer."
On September 23, 2001 the BBC
reported that four of the hijack "suspects" - Waleed Al Shehri, Abdulaziz Al
Omari, Saeed Alghamdi, and possibly Khalid Al Midhar - were alive, and that
FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged "the identity of several of the
suicide hijackers is in doubt."
Bin Laden, in a September 28, 2001 interview
with the Pakistani newspaper Ummat, is reported to have said: "I am not
involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States."
Skeptics dismiss the
video tape "found in a house in Jalalabad", Afghanistan, which allegedly
shows Bin Laden confessing to the September 11 attacks. In a December 20,
2001, broadcast
by German TV channel Das Erste "two independent translators and an expert on
oriental studies found the White House's translation not only to be
inaccurate, but manipulative."
FBI Director Robert Mueller, in a speech at the Commonwealth Club on April
19, 2002, said: "In our investigation, we have not uncovered a
single piece of paper - either here in the United States, or in the treasure
trove of information that has turned up in Afghanistan and elsewhere - that
mentioned any aspect of the September 11 plot."
In fact there are no Arab names on the partial list of
passengers on the 9/11 flights. A final list is not available.
Yet on September 12, 2001 ABC
News reported that "investigators have identified all the hijackers".
Among those identified was "Satan Suqami, a Saudi national on American
Airlines Flight 11, whose passport was recovered in the rubble."
The evidence
against Bin Laden, promised by Secretary of State Colin Powell on
September 23, 2001, has yet to be made available to the public.
Bin Laden is the "prime suspect" in the September 11 attacks, said
President Bush on September 17, 2001, and he pledged to capture him "dead or
alive."
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[Digital morphing - voice, video, and photo - has come of age, available for
use in psychological operations. PSYOPS, as the military calls it, seek to
exploit human vulnerabilities in enemy governments, militaries and
populations to pursue national and battlefield objectives. . . .
Pentagon planners started to discuss digital morphing after Iraq's invasion
of Kuwait in 1990. Covert operators kicked around the idea of creating a
computer-faked videotape of Saddam Hussein crying or showing other such
manly weaknesses, or in some sexually compromising situation. The nascent
plan was for the tapes to be flooded into Iraq and the Arab world.--William
M. Arkin, "When
Seeing and Hearing Isn't Believing," Washington Post, February 1, 1999]
Enver Masud, "Deadly Deception,
Pretexts for War," The Wisdom Fund, July 30, 2001
Enver Masud, "Why No Arab Names on
Passenger List?," The Wisdom Fund, July 26, 2004
George Friedman, "America's Secret
War," The Wisdom Fund, October 11, 2005
"Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden,"
Verso (November 28, 2005)
Amber Rupinta, "Duke
Professor Skeptical of bin Laden Tape," ABC News. January 19, 2006
Enver Masud, "What Really Happened to 7 World Trade
Center?," The Wisdom Fund, April 17, 2006
Robert Parry, "CIA:
Osama Helped Bush in '04," consortiumnews.com, July 4, 2006
[The FBI is confident that it has positively identified the nineteen
hijackers responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks.--Steve Herrmann, "9/11
conspiracy theory," BBC News, October 27, 2006]
["Able Danger did not identify Mohammed Atta or any other 9/11 hijacker at
any time prior to Sept. 11, 2001,"--Greg Miller, "Alarming 9/11 claim is found
baseless," Los Angeles Times, December 25, 2006]
[But more interesting were the examples Krawetz gave of al Qaeda images.
Krawetz took an image from a 2006 al Qaeda video of Ayman al-Zawahiri (above
right), a senior member of the terrorist organization. The image shows
al-Zawahiri sitting in front of a desk and banner with writing on it. But
after conducting his error analysis Krawetz was able to determine that
al-Zawahiri's image was superimposed in front of the background--Kim Zetter,
"Researcher's
Analysis of al Qaeda Images Reveals Surprises," wired.com, August 2, 2007]
"Bin
Laden's message to the American people," aljazeera.net,
September 7, 2007 [Is this video real or fake? Has Al-Jazeera been "neutered"?]
"Latest Bin Laden Video Is a Forgery: All References to
Current Events Are Made During Video Freeze," mparent7777-2.blogspot.com, September 9, 2007
