"Even I question the 'truth' of 9/11" -- Robert Fisk [Victor Davis Hanson]
Here's what bin Laden said in his famous pre-election on video tape of October 30, 2004:
"To the American people, my talk is to you about the best way to avoid another Manhattan. I tell you: Security is an important element of human life and free people do not give up their security...While I was looking at these destroyed towers in Lebanon, it sparked in my mind that the tyrant should be punished with the same and that we should destroy towers in America, so that it tastes what we taste and would be deterred from killing our children and women...God knows that it had not occurred to our mind to attack the towers, but after our patience ran out and we saw the injustice and inflexibility of the American-Israeli alliance toward our people in Palestine and Lebanon, this came to my mind... It never occurred to us that the commander in chief of the American armed forces would leave 50,000 of his citizens in the two towers to face these horrors alone...It appeared to him [Bush] that a little girl's talk about her goat and its butting was more important than the planes and their butting of the skyscrapers. That gave us three times the required time to carry out the operations, thank God."
Here is his most recent reiteration of pride in 9/11 on a tape reportedly released on June 15, 2007:
"He [Zacarias Moussaoui] has no connection whatsoever with the events of September 11th, and I am certain of what I say, because I was responsible for entrusting the 19 brothers - Allah have mercy upon them - with those raids, and I did not assign brother Zacarias to be with them on that mission."
And here is what the journalist Robert Fisk has just written about 9/11 in an article entitled "Even I question the 'truth' of 9/11":
But like everyone else, I would like to know the full story of 9/11, not least because it was the trigger for the whole lunatic, meretricious "war on terror" which has led us to disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan and in much of the Middle East. Bush's happily departed adviser Karl Rove once said that "we're an empire now - we create our own reality". True? At least tell us. It would stop people kicking over chairs.
Two observations come to mind.
First, we know why there is now a colloquial verb in English "to fisk."
Second, The "Even I" of Fisk's title should read "Especially I."
These are sad times in the West, but the inevitable wages of a quarter-century of elite postmodern thought.
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