[NYTr] Bush Regime's Tale of 9/11 - When Fidel Speaks, the World Listens

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

Mainstream Press Reacts to Fidel's column on 9/11 Deception

When Fidel Speaks, the World Listens. Right now they're all atwitter
over his column written yesterday calling into question the Bush
Regime's 9/11 Tale, and also revealing some interesting formerly
classified info about how Cuba warned the US over a plot againt Ronald
Reagan.  See: 
Fidel Castro: The Empipre and Its Lies, 9/12/2007 
https://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20070910/068299.html

In fact, the powers that be are so freaked out they're apparently
promoting more media coverage aout how Fidel is supposedly dying (yes,
sigh, again). See the following item on that. How many months is it
since The Prince of Darkness, John Negroponte, declared to the
Washington Post that Fidel was almost dead of stomach cancer?

The Cuban media have been giving some coverage for the first time to
the various glaring discrepancies in the Bush Regime's Tale of 9/11 for
several weeks now.  And now Fidel has spoken out about some of the
obviously bizarre aspects of the attacks. This lends even more weight
to the doubters' cause -- ironically for many of the right-wing
red-baiters who are major players in the 9/11 Konspiracy Kult -- many
of whom are tin-foil-hat kooks of long-standing, but who are being
joined, increasingly, by people of a more sober disposition and
genuine scientific background. -NY Transfer] 

sent by Mitchel Cohen 

Reuters - Sep 11, 2007 10:03 pm EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1146186220070912

Fidel Castro says U.S. fooled world over 9/11

HAVANA (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said the U.S.
government misinformed Americans and the world about 9/11, echoing
conspiracy theories about the terror attacks against the United
States six years ago.

In an essay read by a Cuban television presenter on Tuesday night,
Castro said the Pentagon was hit by a rocket, not a plane, because
no traces were found of its passengers.

"Today one knows there was deliberate misinformation," wrote Castro,
who has not appeared in public since July of 2006 when life-threatening
surgery for a secret illness forced him to hand over power to his
brother Raul Castro.

"Studying the impact of planes, similar to those that hit the Twin
Towers, that had accidentally fallen on densely populated cities,
one concludes that it was not a plane that crashed into the Pentagon,"
Castro said.

"Only a projectile could have caused the geometrically round hole
that allegedly was made by the plane," he said.

"We were fooled like the rest of the planet's inhabitants," he
wrote.

Castro said the truth behind the September 11 attacks with hijacked
planes that killed nearly 3,000 people will probably never be known.

Castro's 4,256-word essay made no mention of Osama bin Laden and
his militant Islamist al Qaeda network behind the attacks on New
York's World Trade Center and Washington.

Castro, who was the target of CIA assassination plots after his
1959 revolution, said Cuba tipped off U.S. security services in
1984 about a plan to kill then President Ronald Reagan while he
campaigned for re-election in North Carolina.

The information provided by Cuba led to the arrest of a group of
would-be assassins and foiled the plot, he wrote.

2007 Reuters. All rights reserved.

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The Guardian on Conspiracy: PRO...

sent by Mark Graffis

The Guardian blogs - Sep 12, 2007
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/peter_tatchell/2007/09/911_the_big_coverup.html


9/11 - the big cover-up?

Even the chair of the 9/11 Commission now admits that the official
evidence they were given was 'far from the truth'.

by Peter Tatchell

Six years after 9/11, the American public have still not been provided
with a full and truthful account of the single greatest terror attack in
US history.

What they got was a turkey. The 9/11 Commission was hamstrung by
official obstruction. It never managed to ascertain the whole truth of
what happened on September 11 2001.

The chair and vice chair of the 9/11 Commission, respectively Thomas
Kean and Lee Hamilton, assert in their book, Without Precedent, that
they were "set up to fail" and were starved of funds to do a proper
investigation. They also confirm that they were denied access to the
truth and misled by senior officials in the Pentagon and the federal
aviation authority; and that this obstruction and deception led them to
contemplate slapping officials with criminal charges.

Despite the many public statements by 9/11 commissioners and staff
members acknowledging they were repeatedly lied to, not a single person
has ever been charged, tried, or even reprimanded, for lying to the 9/11
Commission.

>From the outset, the commission seemed to be hobbled. It did not start
work until over a year after the attacks. Even then, its terms of
reference were suspiciously narrow, its powers of investigation
curiously limited and its time-frame for producing a report unhelpfully
short - barely a year to sift through millions of pages of evidence and
to interview hundreds of key witnesses.

The final report did not examine key evidence, and neglected serious
anomalies in the various accounts of what happened. The commissioners
admit their report was incomplete and flawed, and that many questions
about the terror attacks remain unanswered. Nevertheless, the 9/11
Commission was swiftly closed down on August 21 2004.

I do not believe in conspiracy theories. I prefer rigorous,
evidence-based analysis that sifts through the known facts and utilises
expert opinion to draw conclusions that stand up to critical scrutiny.
In other words, I believe in everything the 9/11 Commission was not.

The failings of the official investigation have fuelled too many
half-baked conspiracy theories. Some of the 9/11 "truth" groups promote
speculative hypotheses, ignore innocent explanations, cite non-expert
sources and jump to conclusions that are not proven by the known facts.
They convert mere coincidence and circumstantial evidence into cast-iron
proof. This is no way to debunk the obfuscations and evasions of the
9/11 report.

But even amid the hype, some of these 9/11 groups raise valid and
important questions that were never even considered, let alone answered,
by the official investigation. The American public has not been told the
complete truth about the events of that fateful autumn morning six years
ago.

What happened on 9/11 is fundamentally important in its own right. But
equally important is the way the 9/11 cover-up signifies an absence of
democratic, transparent and accountable government. Establishing the
truth is, in part, about restoring honesty, trust and confidence in
American politics.

There are dozens of 9/11 "truth" websites and campaign groups. I cannot
vouch for the veracity or credibility of any of them. But what I can say
is that as well as making plenty of seemingly outrageous claims; a few
of them raise legitimate questions that demand answers.

Four of these well known "tell the truth" 9/11 websites are:

1) Scholars for 9/11 Truth, which includes academics and intellectuals
from many disciplines.
http://twilightpines.com//index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=70

2) 250+ 9/11 'Smoking Guns' a website that cites over 250 pieces of
evidence that allegedly contradict, or were omitted from, the 9/11
Commission report.
http://killtown.911review.org/911smokingguns.html

3) The 911 Truth Campaign that, as well as offering its own evidence and
theories, includes links to more than 20 similar websites.
http://www.911truthcampaign.net/links.php

4) Patriots Question 9/11, perhaps the most plausible array of
distinguished US citizens who question the official account of 9/11,
including General Wesley Clark, former Nato commander in Europe, and
seven members and staffers of the official 9/11 Commission, including
the chair and vice chair. In all, this website documents the doubts of
110+ senior military, intelligence service, law enforcement and
government officials; 200+ engineers and architects; 50+ pilots and
aviation professionals; 150+ professors; 90+ entertainment and media
people; and 190+ 9/11 survivors and family members. Although this is an
impressive roll call, it doesn't necessarily mean that these expert
professionals are right. Nevertheless, their scepticism of the official
version of events is reason to pause and reflect.
http://www.patriotsquestion911.com/

More and more US citizens are critical of the official account. The
respected Zogby polling organisation last week found that 51% of
Americans want Congress to probe President Bush and Vice-President
Cheney regarding the truth about the 9/11 attacks; 67% are also
critical of the 9/11 Commission for not investigating the bizarre,
unexplained collapse of the 47-storey World Trade Centre building 7
(WTC7). This building was not hit by any planes. Unlike WTC3, which was
badly damaged by falling debris from the Twin Towers but which remained
standing, WTC7 suffered minor damage but suddenly collapsed in a neat
pile, as happens in a controlled demolition.

In a 2006 interview with anchorman Evan Soloman of CBC's Sunday
programme, the vice chair of the 9/11 Commission, Lee Hamilton, was
reminded that the commission report failed to even mention the collapse
of WTC7 or the suspicious hurried removal of the building debris from
the site - before there could be a proper forensic investigation of
what was a crime scene. Hamilton could only offer the lame excuse that
the commissioners did not have "unlimited time" and could not be
expected to answer "every question" the public asks.

There are many, many more strange unexplained facts concerning the
events of 9/11. You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to be
puzzled and want an explanation, or to be sceptical concerning the
official version of events.

Six years on from those terrible events, the survivors, and the friends
and families of those who died, deserve to know the truth. Is honesty
and transparency concerning 9/11 too much to ask of the president and
Congress?

What is needed is a new and truly independent commission of inquiry to
sort coincidence and conjecture from fact, and to provide answers to the
unsolved anomalies in the evidence available concerning the attacks on
the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. Unlike the often-stymied first
investigation, this new commission should be granted wide-ranging
subpoena powers and unfettered access to government files and
officials. George Bush should be called to testify, without his minders
at hand to brief and prompt him. America - and the world - has a right
to know the truth.

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AND CON...

sent by Peter Bell

The Guardian - Sep 12, 2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,,2167355,00.html


Castro says US lied about 9/11 attacks

by Mark Tran and agencies

Fidel Castro today joined the band of September 11 conspiracy theorists
by accusing the US of spreading disinformation about the attacks that
took place six years ago.

In a 4,256-word article read by a Cuban television presenter last night,
the country's leader asserted that the Pentagon was hit by a rocket,
not a plane, because no traces were found of its passengers.

"Only a projectile could have created the geometrically round orifice
created by the alleged airplane," he said. "We were deceived as well as
the rest of the planet's inhabitants," he said.

In fact, the remains of the bodies of the crew and passengers of
American Airlines flight 77 were found at the Pentagon crash site, and
positively identified by DNA.

As for the attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York, Mr Castro
wrote that the way the passenger jets crashed into the twin towers on
September 11 and the data from the plane's black boxes "do not
correspond with the criteria of mathematicians, seismologists, and
information and demolition specialists".

But in a glaring omission, Mr Castro's conspiracy theory failed to
mention Osama bin Laden, who this week issued a video praising one of
the hijackers who crashed into the World Trade Centre, and his militant
Islamist al-Qaida network.

In his article, Mr Castro said the truth behind the attacks with
hijacked planes that killed nearly 3,000 people would probably never be
known.

The Cuban government originally condemned the September 11 attacks on
New York and Washington hours after they occurred.

Within days it had organised a rally to express solidarity with
Americans and Mr Castro said Cuba offered to donate blood.

Mr Castro has not appeared in public since mid-2006, when he underwent
intestinal surgery and ceded power to his younger brother Raul. In late
March, he began writing occasional essays on mostly international
themes.

Mr Castro himself was the target of several failed assassination
attempts by the US after he took power in 1959.

He also claimed in his essay that Cuba tipped off US security services
in 1984 about a plan to kill the then president, Ronald Reagan, while
he was campaigning for re-election in North Carolina.

The information provided by Cuba led to the arrest of a group of
would-be assassins and foiled the plot, he wrote.