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To: Thomas M. who wrote (1867)	9/12/2002 10:04:45 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 3959

One year after the terror attacks: still no official investigation into September 11 By Patrick Martin 12 September 2002 One year after the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed more than 3,000 people, there has not been a single public congressional hearing, no official report has been prepared, and many of the most basic facts remain shrouded in secrecy. Despite its public show of sympathy for the victims and their families, the Bush administration is denying them what is their most basic right: a thorough investigation into the causes of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the circumstances in which they took place. It is now twelve months since the worst terrorist attack in history-one that was carried out without any interference from the US national security apparatus, the largest in the world. Yet not a single person has been held accountable. As a New York Times article published on the anniversary noted, this failure to investigate is unprecedented for a disaster of such scope. A public probe into the sinking of the Titanic, the newspaper noted, began the morning after the survivors arrived in New York City. The Warren Commission felt compelled to report its findings on the Kennedy assassination by the first anniversary of the president's murder. Similar investigations were conducted into the US military failure at Pearl Harbor in 1941, the explosion that destroyed the Challenger space shuttle, and other disasters. Referring to official investigations by the US Congress and other agencies into the Titanic tragedy, the Times wrote: "No inquiry remotely similar in scope, energy or transparency has examined the attacks of last Sept. 11.... One year later, the public knows less about the circumstances of 2,801 deaths at the foot of Manhattan in broad daylight than people in 1912 knew within weeks about the Titanic, which sank in the middle of the ocean in the dead of night." [...] wsws.org