'Why America Slept’

[dArKeR]

After an 18-month investigation that uncovered new evidence through interviews and in classified documents, author Gerald Posner reveals undisclosed information on the events leading up to and after September 11 such as the identity of two countries that might have had foreknowledge that a terrorist attack was scheduled for September 11 on U.S. soil and a startling account of the interrogation of a leading al Qaeda captive. Read an excerpt of “Why America Slept” below.

THE TAKEOVER
       A DECADE BEFORE 9/11, the worldwide surge in Islamic fundamentalism and its virulent hatred of the West was largely unrecognized in America. We did not notice when some of the most prominent radicals moved to this country and set up operations just across the river from the World Trade Center. Those early militants, ignored in their new chosen homeland, would become the role models and inspiration for some of the World Trade Center and Pentagon hijackers in 2001.

       Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue is only thirty minutes away by the Number 4 train from the World Trade Center. Before September 11, a nearby waterfront promenade offered postcard views of the twin towers. But these two New York neighborhoods might as well be different countries. The sterile and overbuilt financial center on the tip of Manhattan that was rendered into a giant open-air cemetery covered by tons of twisted debris is quintessentially American. The mile stretch of Brooklyn seems a much closer cousin to downtown Cairo than Wall Street. It is a neighborhood overcrowded with the city’s densest concentration of Arabs.

http://msnbc.com/news/960400.asp?0cv=CB20

Or Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld wanted 9/11 to happen so they could take over our Secret Government, appoint fascist judges, do anything they wanted to spend our tax savings, make billions in war contracts, make billions in oil, break more unions and send the jobs to their overseas corporations with lower labor costs, stop Bush from falling into the 30% approval rating which he was headed for on 9/10....

[rooboy]

1. Gerald Posner...

the guy who wrote the "JFK - Case Closed" book, or whatever it was called. Released just before stacks of JFK-related materials were declassified.

He looks to me like a highly-paid disinformation specialist. Someone must be nervous.

[scarletwoman]

2. Agreed -- NOT a trustworthy source. (n/t)

[vixengrl]

3. I do believe I caught him on O'Reilly yesterday night.

(My husband sometimes likes to catch "what the other folks...for want of a better word....think".) He seemed to be a "Pox on both their houses guy.." in that he couldln't talk about what the Bushites did wrong without mentioning..."oh and by the way Clinton..."

And he kept pronouncing the name "bin *lou* den", and I don't know if that's the wrong way to pronounce it, but it bugged me. (I have no idea myself, so if there's anyone knows a little Arabic pronunciation?)