The War On Truth: 9/11, Disinformation And The Anatomy Of Terrorism

[serryjw]

by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed. I have posted many times the impact War of Freedom had on me when it was read a few months after 9-11. It was the most difficult book I have ever read and was wake up call to my current activism. I KNEW after reading the book that we were in the middle of a US coup d'état.
Ahmed's next book is out. I have not raed it yet, but will shortly
Interesting review on Amazon
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Book Consistent with my official experience and other readings, October 25, 2005
Reviewer: Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States) - See all my reviews

While there is certainly something to be said for this book painting a "worst case" conspiracy theory scenario, I have to say that it is consistent with both my years of experience as a clandestine case officer, anad my extensive reading on national security misadventures. I do agree with one reviewer's observation that we should not over-estimate the competence of the U.S. Government, but I also believe that we cannot under-estimate the incompetence of the bureaucracy nor the lack of ethics of the political ideologues.

Academically, objectively, this book is about as carefully laid out and sourced as one could want. The quotes that it offers from official State Department officers complaining they were ordered to give visas to clearly unqualified terrorists being trained and supported by CIA stand out, as do the retrospective quotes on everything the FBI failed to do against the first World Trade Center bombing. This book is, in brief, everything the 9/11 Commission was not. The two taken together, along with the Aspin-Brown Commission, give us a good sense for reality.

Having been a part of the CIA when it was committing high crimes and misdemeanors in Central America, and having been a youth in Viet-Nam when CIA was in charge of the Phoenix assassination program and learning how to fly drugs and launder money for its warlords, and based on my extensive reading, I am persuaded of the three core propositions in this book:

1) That CIA and FBI managed clandestine relations with those who blew up the World Trade Center for years, and generally concealed and obstructed Justice investigations after 9/11 because of their antecedent mis-behavior;

2) That both the Clinton and Bush White Houses actively supported the Taliban and the secret Enron negotiations with the Taliban to build energy pipelines, not realizing at the time (as we know today) that the extraction and transportation of the energy as envisioned then is actually not supportable; and

3) That the Bush White House was already planning to invade Afghanistan, with all of the operational plans drawn up as early as July 2001, and 9/11 was treated as a Pearl Harbor pretext.

Having read most of what has been written by Brzezinski, Kissinger, and others I find the author's speculation that the U.S., the U.K., and France, among others, have been actively using terrorists, nurturing terrorists, as part of a geopolitical and economic strategy, and that in their naivete, they nurtured a force they cannot control today, to be completely credible.

I recommend this book be read together with "Fog Facts" by Larry Beinhart, and "The Long Emergency" by James Kuntsler. The first examines information that can be known, as in this book, but that is ignored if not over-shadowed by "spin"; while the second examines the pathological implications of cheap oil and all that cheap oil has made possible, including the creation of huge cities that are unsustainable into the future; the transport of vast quantities of water over long distances to places that will be dry in the near term; and the shipping of very cheap goods over very long distances from China by Wal-Mart.

Bottom line: cheap oil is the fool's gold of this century, only it is toxic and radioactive. The White House, Enron, and a cast of rather poorly-read bureaucrats came together to create a toxic mold called sub-state terrorism. The bureaucrats were following orders or had good intentions--the politicans and their corporate cronies were and are out and out thieves who are looting the Republic for their own selfish gains, firm in the belief that enough people will be fooled until they are out of office and laughing all the way to the Cayman Islands. They are probably right.

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[Tuesday_Morning]

1. Thanks for the heads up. n/t

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

2. I picked up a copy of this a while back

but haven't read it either. I read "War of Freedom" when it was first written and being given away as a PDF and found it probably the most credible of all the material then questioning 911.

I had a flick through the footnotes to "The War On Truth" when it arrived and I was a little disappointed to see him citing some dubious sources (Michael Ruppert for example). It put me off reading it immediately & I've since been bogged down in all manner of other stuff.

(Finally, you may be interested in a book called "Dollars for Terror" by Richard Labeviere:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1892941066

[serryjw]

3. Interesting

I think Micheal Ruppert is GOD!

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

4. I first came by him when he was breaking the Vreeland story

and I spent a long time absorbed with that whole thing. The task was helped by a couple of Canadians who interviewed a score of people as well as others (like his brother Terry) who'd . It took a while - part of which I was in reasonably regular email contact with Vreeland and got hold of a lot of court and personal documents - but eventually the whole sorry mess was pretty much debunked. I was suspect of Ruppert from then on, not helped by the fact I had scans of some of the email correspondence between him & Vreeland which suggested that he was trying to clean up some of the inconsistencies (I can't remember examples sorry, so you'll have to trust me!) in his tale.

Then Sander Hicks announced he was going to investigate (by which time Leo Wanta had tried to attatch himself to the saga) and he ignored pretty much all we'd told him insisting that there was still some truth in what Vreeland was saying. (By now, Vreeland was cracking up and spinning tales of being a super-duper sniper who was assigned to assassinate Wanta in Switzerland! - Hicks invented what he called the "sniper sniff test" to examine the credibility of this, which involved asking David Guyatt (who is an ex-banker) a series of stupid questions.)

Anyway, it was a very sorry mess by the end (with Vreeland ultimately reporting Wanta to the police (via a very wacko woman called Linda Fanton (sp?)) and so he went on the run again. In spite of all the contrary evidence, Ruppert has stuck by his guns which is absurd. When pushed, he'll claim that it warranted investigation, but he still posits an air of mystique about Vreeland and his site hosts a page of articles about the story. (I've not read it, but I believe he recounts the whole tale in his book.) It especially angers me after the way he attacked David Corn and Norman Solomon for questioning the veracity of Vreelands story. (There was also the incident was Ruppert broke the story that Vreeland had been poisoned by wine sent to him by Alan Greenspan - which kind of speaks for itself.)

Long post - sorry - but I've been extremely dubious about Ruppert since then. I think he pushes fear to sell subscriptions and videos and books and - as is somewhat demonstrated by the staff who've left FTW (and their reasons for doing so) - not a particualrly nice person. The "Pinnacle Quest International" (which also involves his pal Catherine Austin Fitts) is very troulesome too.

[serryjw]

5. I know nothing of which you speak

He has been amazing on reporting 9-11 and peak oil

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

6. FYI

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/index-vreeland.html

[serryjw]

7. I don't feel like reading it

please give me a brief summary of what happened and why you disagree with Ruppert