“Terror War was formally declared by George W. Bush on the evening of September 11, 2001, with his statement to the American nation that we will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.3 But the notion that Bush’s terror war was in pursuit of actual terrorists lost credibility in 2003, when it was applied to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, a country known to have been targeted by terrorists but not to have harbored them.4 It lost still more credibility with the 2005 publication in Britain of the so-called Downing Street memo, in which the head of the British intelligence service MI6 reported after a visit to Washington in 2002 that Bush wanted to remove Saddam Hussein, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.5 False stories followed in due course linking Iraq to WMD, anthrax, and Niger yellowcake (uranium). This essay will demonstrate that before 9/11 a small element inside the CIA’s Bin Laden Unit and related agencies, the so-called Alec Station Group, were also busy, “fixing” intelligence by suppressing it, in a way which, accidentally or deliberately, enabled the Terror War. They did so by withholding evidence from the FBI before 9/11 about two of the eventual alleged hijackers on 9/11, Khalid Al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, thus ensuring that the FBI could not surveil the two men or their colleagues.” ~ Peter Dale Scott lewrockwell/orig11/scott-pd15.1.html
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 20:32:23 +0000
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