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> As an Englishman, I feel bound to add a piece of mischief: I would not
> personally sorrow if the already empty, evacuated White House had been
> hit. We have after all burned it down before, which is how it acquired
> its name. The multi-millionaire Mr Bush could then have experienced,
> albeit briefly, the plight of homelessness which is familiar to so
> many of his citizens.
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Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2001
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In the short run such assurances may please, and fob-off, a
namby-pamby politician like Tony Blair and his touchy-feely wife
Cherie.
Tuesday, November 20, 2001
(Key West, Florida, USA)
I HAVE been receiving many messages over the last weeks from
friends and correspondents urging me to forego my curiosity about
the crash of United Airlines flight 93. Becoming a conspiracy
theorist, they say, that my will damage my integrity as a historian.
Possibly so, and possibly not.
Inspired by the files posted on the website www.flight93crash.com
which we have partly mirrored on our own website, American
heavyweight journalists have seemingly at last begun to do their
duty and investigate what really happened to United Flight 93. --
the "fourth airliner" which crashed into the field in Pennsylvanbika
on Sept. 11, 2001.
It is proper to comment on what, to me, makes this story important
in the wider scheme of things. In my view, in a warlike situation --
because this is still not legally a war -- a government has a right to
take certain hard decisions; but it should think long and hard before
deceiving its own people about them. The truth will always out.
The United States people, and with it the world, have been invited
to accept the justification offered by Washington and the Pentagon
for their attacks on the people of Afghanistan, who have done no
demonstrable harm to the United States, because of the
occasional verbal assurances offered by the President, George W
Bush, that he has proof that the Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden,
whom the Afghanistan people are (or were) housing, was the
mastermind behind both the criminal attacks on the World Trade
Center and the pre-emptive strike, delivered by equally criminal
means, against the Pentagon. The only evidence we have seen
however suggests that none of the perpetrators (the alleged
hijackers) was an Afghan citizen or associated with Bin Laden.
Despite the flabby and diminishing protests of America's allies, the
Bush regime has offered no proof other than to hint that they have it
from secretly intercepted conversations of Bin Laden associates.
Why are they still secret, those intercepts? It is by now no secret
that the United States government regularly eavesdrops and
records, world-wide, the conversations of criminals and others who
are so foolish as to conduct them by cellphones, or indeed by any
telephone communication partially transmitted by microwave links.
In the short run such assurances may please, and fob-off, a namby-
pamby politician like Tony Blair and his touchy-feely wife Cherie.
But in the long run they will not satisfied current, or for that matter
future, historians with a harder-nosed attitude towards proof and the
rules of evidence.
Blair's own colleagues are scathing about his gullibility. His own
government, posting the current Bin Laden dossier on its No. 10
Downing-street website, is careful to put at its head a formal and
shameful disclaimer, reading:
This document does not purport to provide a prosecutable case
against Usama Bin Laden in a court of law. Intelligence often
cannot be used evidentially, due both to the strict rules of
admissibility and to the need to protect the safety of sources. But
on the basis of all the information available HMG [Her Majesty's
Government] is confident of its conclusions as expressed in this
document.
It thus appears that tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of citizens
of Afghanistan, a country upon whom the United States and Britain
have not formally declared war, are being killed by the most brutal
means including cluster-bombs and the giant "daisy-cutter"
vacuum-blast bombs, although we have only the President's word
for any involvement of their country in the atrocities of Sept. 11,
2001. YES, the president's word: That is why, until they produce
better evidence, the word of the present Washington government
matters.
And that brings us back to the ill-fated fourth plane that day, United
Airlines 93, which crashed for no good reason outside Shanksville,
Pennsylvania. We have argued ever since that same ugly morning
that in all likelihood the plane was shot down on Bush's orders, in
the belief it was heading for the White House;
that almost at once it became clear that the hijackers had already
been overwhelmed by a handful of brave passengers, so the plane's
destruction had been a terrible mistake;
that his staff at once put out the story that it was known to have
been on a collision course with the White House, or even with his
own plane Air Force One;
that he ordered the fighter pilot and the man's superior officers to
meet him at Offutt airforce base, Omaha, where they were sworn to
secrecy; and
that the FBI, which under J Edgar Hoover was an agency famed for
its puritanical probity, is involved in the resulting cover-up As an
Englishman, I feel bound to add a piece of mischief: I would not
personally sorrow if the already empty, evacuated White House
had been hit. We have after all burned it down before, which is how
it acquired its name. The multi-millionaire Mr Bush could then have
experienced, albeit briefly, the plight of homelessness which is
familiar to so many of his citizens.
I feel however that it was more likely that the plane was targeted on
one of the nuclear power plants, to unleash a Chernobyl disaster;
or on the Capitol building, one of the most beautiful pieces of
architecture on earth. The television cameras also seem to have
anticipated the latter, as they focused the glare of their telephoto
lenses on its glistening sunlit dome throughout much of that awful
morning, with all the morbid curiosity of the crowds flocking around
the gallows on Tyburn Hill.
The government had however at once denied that the Pennsylvania
plane had been shot down. George Bush appears to have snared
himself inextricably in the tangled web he first wove that morning.
Fortunately for him, the press seemed for weeks to be either
playing along in the spirit of patriotic belief, or too lazy to
investigate.
All the greater is the pleasure with which this website now
reproduces and preserves the first article to show that the press
has begun to wake up. Written by William Bunch for the
Philadelphia Daily News it is entitled
We know it crashed, but not why
[click for article]
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