[lit-ideas] Re: The 9.11 Report
- From: "Stan Spiegel" <writeforu2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 02:55:33 -0400
Andreas - Is it you or the 911 Commission that said:
"As long at the USA continues to support Israel's violent, racist,
genocidal, apartheid policies against Arabs, the Arab world will hate and
resent the USA and more attacks will happen."
If it is indeed you who are characterizing Israel's behavior alone as
"violent, racist, genocidal and apartheid," I'd like to know where that
comes from. You seem unafraid to speak of Israel completely out of
context -- as if Israel were just another South Africa, not a country
defending itself against an ocean of Arabs who are committed to driving
Israelis into the sea. Clarify for me Israel's genocidal policies please --
and please don't mention the part that Arafat and the Palestinians play in
this conflict. Don't mention that the other 22 Arab states don't allow a
single Jew to enter the gates of their society -- unlike Israel that does
have an Arab population. Don't mention that the other Arab states work at
keeping "the Palestinians" in a refuge state, throwing them out of their own
countries. Don't mention Arafat's corruption and his squirreling away the
money sent to help the Palestinians for his own private purposes. Keep it
simple. Keep it black and white. Make sure everyone knows who the good guys
(and victims) are and the bad guys (the aggressors) too.
Stan Spiegel
One of the bad guys
a Jew in Portland, Maine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Lit-Ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 3:29 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] The 9.11 Report
> I wrote notes and a summary of the 9.11 Report.
>
> I strongly recommend that you buy the report ($10, at all major
bookstores) and read it.
>
> yrs,
> andreas
> www.andreas.com
>
>
> The 9.11 Report: A summary and comments.
>
> Chapter 2 is a good summary of the origins of al Qaeda, the evolution of
bin Laden, and
> their motivations. It clearly states that fundamentalist Muslims are angry
over US policies
> in the Middle East. This is a major departure from the official view that
the USA is a
> victim.
>
> Al Qaeda is a wide-ranging organization, involved in many kinds of
operations. It functions
> as a quasi-state, with a $30 million annual budget. However, al Qaeda is
not the central
> organization of Islamic terror. It is a sort of coordinating service or an
umbrella for many
> groups. Even if al Qaeda were to be destroyed entirely, the threat would
not end.
>
> Chapter 3: A discussion of US institutional organizations. This chapter is
a very dismal
> long account, one by one, of how the FBI, CIA, FCC, State Dept., the
Pentagon, the White
> House, Congress, and others were blind to the threat because of their
bureaucratic nature.
>
> The CIA in particular is a wreck. By 1995, its fortunes had sunk so low
that they were able
> to hire only 25 new officers. Even a local Starbucks hires more than that.
>
> The CIA started as an organization to fight the Soviet Union. By the 80s
and 90s, however,
> it had evolved into a large bureaucracy that published secret papers which
were read only by
> itself. They analysed each others papers. CIA employees were no longer
active in the field;
> they weren't living in foreign countries, they didn't learn foreign
languages to the point
> of fluency. They didn't know what was going on outside of Washington DC.
>
> This is part of the general America ignorance and disinterest in the rest
of the world. The
> 9.11 report states that in 1992, only six Americans earned degrees in
Arabic. Americans who
> were born abroad, who have extensive connections abroad, or lived abroad
are openly
> discouraged from applying to the CIA because they won't be hired.
>
> Thus the CIA is a vast WASP white-colllar suburban bureaucracy. Of all US
institutions, they
> should have been the ones who were aware of al Qaeda, yet they were
completely unaware of
> what was going on in the Islamic world.
>
> In general, the US institutions focussed on bureaucratic infighting,
dealing with public
> scandals, budget battles, and endless politics.
>
> Chapter 4 describes various operations against bin Laden. It goes into
detail over why these
> operations never finally happened. Plans (one general alone developed 13
plans) took years
> to discuss and navigate through endless bureaucratic and internal politics
and in the end,
> came to nothing. (See for example p. 108-115 or 126-134.)
>
> Chapter 5: Planning the 9.11 Attack. 9.11 was planned and directed by
Khalid Sheikh
> Mohammed. He graduated in engineering from North Carolina. He fought in
the anti-Soviet
> jihad in Afghanistan and was involved in the war in Bosnia. He planned
9.11 because of his
> violent disagreement over US policy that favors Israel (p. 147). He
targeted the US economy,
> and thus NYC (p. 153). The orignal plan for 9.11 was the hijacking of ten
jets and attacks
> against NYC, California, and Seattle. The chapter describes al Qaeda's
bureaucratic process
> for discussing the plans and preparing for action. The total costs for
9.11 were under
> $500,000. The last pages of the chapter include a summary of al Qaeda's
planning methods.
>
> It's important to point that that al Qaeda's senior people are nearly all
educated at
> Western universities, with degrees in engineering, MBAs, and so on. They
understand the USA
> better than most Americans.
>
> chapter 11: Analysis. This chapter dicusses the failures of the USA. Until
the morning of
> September 11, 2001, the US government and media simply did not realize
that al Qaeda was
> planning to attack the USA (see p. 347) and none of them could imagine the
magnitude of the
> attack. Whereas in 1944 the US expected an attack from Japan, the US
government was
> literally struck out of the blue by al Qaeda.
>
> The report concludes with a long list of recommendations. In summary: more
surveillance,
> more security, and prepare for the next attack.
>
> The 9.11 Report however does not discuss the cause of 9.11: US support of
Israel. Without
> massive amounts of US weapons, tens of billions of US dollars, and US
diplomatic protection,
> Israel can't continue to exist. The main motivation of Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed, the leader of
> the 9.11 attack, is anger over the US support of Israel. The Arab world is
deeply angry over
> the humiliation of Arabs and Islam by the USA. As long at the USA
continues to support
> Israel's violent, racist, genocidal, apartheid policies against Arabs, the
Arab world will
> hate and resent the USA and more attacks will happen.
>
> The invasion of Iraq to seize its oil and the sexual humiliation of Iraqi
prisoners is
> probably the worst possible thing the USA could have done. The
Soviet-Afghani war of the
> 1980s created thousands of battle-hardened Islamic soldiers. The Taliban
and al Qaeda were
> created in that war. Just as the Islamic jihad threw the Soviet Union's
military out of
> Afghanistan, the Iraqi will throw the USA out of Iraq, and in the process,
the USA will
> inadvertantly create generations of Islamic warriors.
>
> Al Qaeda and the dozens of Islamic guerilla groups will continue to attack
the USA. They
> want to force the USA to withdraw from the Arab world. They know how to do
this: they must
> cause such massive damage that the USA will withdraw.
>
> Until September, 2001, America was asleep. The US government and the
American people did not
> realize the depth of hatred, nor the organizational skills, nor the size
of the threat.
>
> The attacks will continue and they will escalate, until hundreds of
thousands of Americans
> are dead. Islamic fundamentalists are trying to buy nuclear bombs either
from the Russian
> Mafia, Pakistan, or North Korea. Islamic fundamentalists will explode a
nuclear bomb in a
> large American city, either New York City or washington DC.
>
> Every single member of the 9.11 Commission says it is only a matter of
when.
>
> The USA's response is to prepare for the attack. The 9.11 Commission's
most important
> recommendation was not stated: the USA must change its relation with
Israel. That is the
> only way to prevent a nuclear attack on the USA.
>
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