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At 10:22 PM +0900 1/5/02, G.R. wrote:
>My Rejected Column
>
> by Jack Rain
>
>Two days after the Attack on America, I wrote a column stating my
>suspicions that Israel might be behind the attack. I knew my column
>was a hot potato and really didn't expect it to be picked up by the
>websites I submitted it to (I sent it to Strike The Root and
>LewRockwell.com). As expected, both Rob and Lew rejected the
>column, but at least I was on record with them personally. I didn't
>send it to any anti-Jewish sites, which I am sure would have jumped
>at the theorizing in the column.
>
>I didn't send it to those sites because I wasn't coming from an
>anti-Israeli or anti-Jewish perspective. If I had sent it to one of
>those sites, it could very easily have been dismissed as an
>anti-Semitic rant. I have no such axe to grind. I was simply
>writing a column on a gut feel from my personal experiences on how
>the world sometimes works.
>
>Since I wrote the column, my belief that Israeli operatives may have
>played a role in the attack is even stronger. It has since come out
>that Secretary of State Colin Powell was to have given a speech
>calling for a Palestinian state. The attack preempted the speech,
>which benefited Israel.
>
>Fox News and Justin Raimondo are both now implying, if not
>completely stating, that Israel had to at least have known about the
>attacks in advance. I continue to contend that it MAY have played
>some role.
>
>My original article is below; read it carefully. Unlike George
>Bush, I did not immediately accuse Israel the way Bush immediately
>accused bin Laden. I merely said that Israel was on my suspect list
>based on the question, "Who benefits?" With the new information
>that the attack stopped a speech by Colin Powell calling for a
>Palestinian state, the benefit of the attack for Israel now seems
>greater than when I first wrote my column.
>
>The Fox News reporting on suspicious activity by some Israelis now
>lends some facts to my speculative thinking.
>
>Misdirection is a hallmark of secret operatives, and I believe it
>may have been used in the Attack on America. Indeed, we know for a
>fact that some of the terrorist hijackers who died in the suicide
>attacks used misdirection even at the operational level when they
>strapped weightlifting belts around their waists and told the
>passengers they had bombs and were going to hijack the plane. This
>misdirection was designed to keep the passengers controlled and
>stopped them from understanding the true purpose of the mission.
>(It was only a hijacking, not a suicide mission.)
>
>Israeli operatives may or may not have been behind the Attack on
>America, but I think Israel has clearly benefited. They can, for
>example, become much more aggressive "terrorist" fighters. The
>federal government has now frozen Hamas' money here in the United
>States, and Colin Powell delayed his speech calling for a
>Palestinian state. Israel may have simply been a bystander aware of
>the coming attack, and if so, my original column helps explain why
>Israeli would have been a silent observer. But I think if you
>believe that they could have been a silent observer, you also have
>to put them on the suspect list. This doesn't mean that they
>absolutely positively did it but, but simply that they cannot be
>eliminated as suspects. The developments since I wrote my original
>column on September 13 only harden my convictions that Israel must
>remain on the suspect list as perhaps having some role, bin Laden's
>confession notwithstanding.
>
>Bin Laden may have had some role in the attack, but the most recent
>videotapes leaves me even less convinced of this possibility. In my
>view, on the tapes bin Laden comes off as a lying braggart in front
>of a potential money source ("Yeah I did it. Boy, more donations
>for my next evil scheme would be great right now. Praise Allah.")
>Real investigators know you always keep some information about a
>crime secret to test the credibility of those confessing. In the
>videotape, bin Laden doesn't say anything about the attack that
>couldn't have been gleaned from news reports. He did not talk like
>a man who was rationally analyzing the attack. "Yeah, we hit three
>of four targets. By the way, that plane that crashed in
>Pennsylvania was headed for XYZ. We will get XYZ next time." It was
>100% chest pumping which provided zero new facts that weren't
>already in the public venue.
>
>Here is my original rejected column. I believe it is time for a
>full OPEN and thorough investigation of the attack conducted by
>Congress to see who was truly behind the evil attack. No secret "We
>have information we are going to share with Tony Blair" stuff, a
>real thorough open inquiry. Who knew what when? Who did what when?
>This was an attack on America. A full inquiry should be conducted
>before the American people as to who was truly responsible.
>
>My Number One Suspect
>
>September 13, 2001
>
>While Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and most of the rest of
>the American media has placed Osama bin Laden at the top of the
>suspect list for the attack on the World Trade Center towers and the
>Pentagon, my personal suspect list is a little different.
>
>My list is different because when I ask the key question "Who
>benefits from the attack?", bin Laden's name just does not jump out
>at me. Yes, in a way, if bin Laden did pull this off, he has a new
>recruiting slogan for future Muslim terrorists that would be
>something along the lines of the U.S. Army's "Be all that you can
>be" slogan. You know, something like, "Be all that you can be, join
>the terrorists, fight Satan America and die for Allah." But he is
>going to take big time heat for this attack, whether he conducted it
>or not. Face it, the U.S., if it goes after this guy, will get him.
>And bin Laden would have known this before such an attack. So would
>he want to create such heat for himself? Maybe. Maybe he wants to
>die a martyr like those who crashed the planes. But leaders in
>general do not seem to be the martyr type. It's okay for their
>followers to commit suicide, but generally, leaders like to be
>around to direct the next suicide mission.
>
>Maybe he thinks he is invincible and that the United States won't be
>able to get him. But if this is so, and he did it, why isn't he
>taking responsibility for the attack?
>
>No, there are other suspects. And that is why I am not jumping on
>the bin Laden as Number One suspect bandwagon.
>
>My prime suspect arises from thinking again about that all important
>question, "Who benefits?"
>
>The biggest reaction to this attack is a new round of aggressive
>talk from President Bush, Congress and European leaders that
>terrorism must be stopped. "This is now war," Bush tells us. So a
>prime suspect would then have to be anyone who wants a stepped up
>fight against terrorism. Well lo and behold, there is such a group.
>The state of Israel has been doing some heavy "terrorism fighting"
>of late. They have been taking out a bunch of Palestinian leaders,
>excuse me, Palestinian terrorists.
>
>Their attacks on targeted Palestinians have been so aggressive of
>late that even the casual news observer has become aware of them.
>In fact, the Bush administration labeled some recent Israeli attack
>as "excessive." Boy, it's too bad the Bush administration didn't
>know then what it knows now about Middle East terrorists. They
>didn't realize it was war back then, I guess. But the Bush
>administration attitude has certainly been changed by this attack in
>America. Lucky for Israel, I guess.
>
>Or was this whole thing an operation of Mossad, Israel's equivalent
>of the CIA? The Mossad is known for aggressive, manipulative
>operations. Anyone in the intelligence world would agree that they
>certainly would have the ability to pull this off. They are masters
>of misdirection, and I think a lot of misdirection has been going on
>of late.
>
>Consider: This whole well-organized operation went on for months, if
>not years, without any clues that the American intelligence
>community could detect. In other words, it was a very
>sophisticated, well thought-out attack, with smart people behind it.
>Then suddenly after the attack, there are clues all over the place.
>Huh? The attackers used credit cards to purchase some of their
>tickets that now link them to some of their operatives on the
>ground. They left an Arabic flight manual in some luggage that
>missed a connection. Why would someone knowing he was going to
>crash a plane check a bag that contained a flight manual that then
>misses its connection (lucky for the FBI)? This is a great clue
>that points at Arabs, but it doesn't make any sense.
>
>The FBI is now on the chase of clues everywhere. A sophisticated,
>well organized attack now seems to have been run by a bunch of
>village idiots that got caught. Hmm. Luckily, in the World Trade
>Center bombing a few years ago, the FBI was able to quickly find the
>metal vehicle identification number from the van that carried the
>bomb into the World Trade Center, and the idiot then went to get his
>refund on the truck. Luckily, this time the idiots are leaving
>clues all over the place.
>
>Yeah, the actual operatives who carry out these missions are
>generally idiots. They are not savvy about the world around them.
>They are run by "controls" who are very savvy. The controls know
>how to pull these things off in utmost secrecy. And they know how
>to get their operatives out without detection--if they want. If the
>operatives are leaving sloppy after-the-fact clues all over the
>place, it is because the controls want those clues around. If they
>want those clue to point to Arab terrorists, they will. It is my
>opinion that Mossad is the only group capable and the only group
>having the incentive to pull this off.
>
>Yes, the actual attackers were Arab but they worked out of a "cell."
>These idiots could have been told they worked for bin Laden. I
>doubt most of them ever met bin Laden. It could have been a cell
>run, in fact, by anyone. My bet is that it was run by the Mossad.
>It is the theory that best fits the facts and is the only theory
>that explains the total sophistication and secrecy of this operation
>with clues now bursting out all over the place.
>
>
>December 28, 2001
>
>Jack Rain [send him e-mail] is a traveler and observer of world events.
>Help Us Grow
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