The War on Freedom: How and Why America Was Attacked, September 11th, 2001

It's all here, all the news that you won't find on CNN-FOX-NBC et al, although an astonishing amount of stuff WAS published in papers like the Washington Post, and many of Ahmed's sources are mainstream. But while bits of the puzzle may leak out in the mainstream US media, the conclusion -- that the Bush administration, "through its actions and inactions, effectively facilitated the attacks, protected those responsible, blocked attempts to prevent the attacks, and maintained close political, financial, military, and intelligence ties to key figures who supported those responsible...." is unspeakable in the dominant US media, and to a large extent, even in the alternative media. This is unfortunate, because this is one of the most important stories of the last hundred years. We need to wake up to the monstrosity that our federal government has become, after 50+ years of catering to the military industrial complex. If we are ever going to reclaim our democracy and re-establish government of by and for the people instead of government of by and for the corporations and wealthy, we must be willing to unflinchingly face the crimes our government has committed and demand their accountability.

Both my daughter and nephew were attending college in NYC on September 11, 2001. I am chilled by the reality that either one or both could have been victims that day. Having just read War on Freedom I am now outraged and find it incomprehensible that the American public has failed to demand the full and independant investigation proposed in this very important book. There are no single assertions contained therein which Mr. Ahmed fails to substantiate with credible sources. My reaction has been to e-mail Senator Daschele and my own Senate representatives and, to date, I have received no response. Meanwhile, the media and the White House throw about terms like "intelligence errors" to diguise the treasonous events leading up to 9-11 and thereafter. In the name of the "War on Terrorism" the Bush administration has engaged in an attack on our Constitutional freedoms and has hence taken the battle to the American people. The causes of the 9-11 tragedy are conveniently ignored but for the courageous works of writers like Mr. Ahmed.

"Afghanistan had been planned for several years prior to the terrible tragedy that occurred on 11th September on US soil...[It] then considers the development of Afghanistan as well as within the United States, as a consequence of the US-led military intervention that began Ocotber 2001....Neither the facts, nor the inferences I draw therefrom, are palatable. However, they are worthy of urgent consideration, not only from members of the public, but by our purported political leaders and representatives..." "...Huey Long once said, 'Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism'. I'm afraid, based on my own long experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security." Nafeez Moseaddeq Ahmed, Prefaceand quote from Jim Garrison, New OrleansDistrict Attorney, 1967, from the ConclusionTHE WAR ON FREEDOM There are not words to describe the courage it will take anyone, conservative or liberal, left, right or center, to read this book from cover to cover and sit with the new world you will be looking at afterwards. Ahmed, through more than *six hundred* footnotes, political and historical analysis, quotes of everyone from European and Afghani political analysts to New York stockbrokers to American congressman and FBI agents--and some of the most erudite, plain language scholarship I have ever read--irrevocably changes one's view of history and current events such that one is left with the profoundly disturbing fact not by saying that his main theory is true, but by proving unqeustionably that it is POSSIBLE. This is not an America-hating rant, the likes of which would make it the international antithesis (i.e. siamese twin) of much of the pro-American "literature" coming from the far right nowadays. This is scholarship the likes of which can only demand a paradigm shift in one's thinking, regardless of how you choose to reinterpret his fact-finding when you put the book down. If you've ever wondered what the Catholic bishops must have felt when reading the work of Galileo for the first time, or the Protestant community of the 19th century reading the work of Darwin, or what the Newtonian physics scientific community felt seeing Einstein prove his point about relativity, the scholarship of Ahmed will let you know in perhaps the most politically frightening way possible. Ahmed in fact, does not rely on the rogue scholars we are familiar with for the bulk of his work. He quotes BODY OF SECRETS: INSIDE THE NSA, the work of Gore Vidal like THE GOLDEN AGE, and 9-11 by Noam Chomsky as mere redundancies, adding to the mountain of evidence he has generated leading one to the inevitable conclusion that is the book's theme. In the end, whether or not you choose to follow Ahmed to the end of his theories, you will be left with a totally new understanding of the secret architecture and raison d'etre of both modern history and modern war. If you didn't know that FDR knew the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor because he set A

Unable to demolish the heavily documented factual information in this book, which many people find understandably troubling, critics have sought to put this carefully researched work down by stating that there is no smoking gun and it does not prove its case. There are plenty of smoking guns and the author was not seeking to prove a case. He has supplied an abundance of information which vitally needs to be taken to the next level, that of a meticulous independent investigation.Some of the troubling points raised which so many find intolerable to confront that they seek to avoid their implications altogether are:1) The many warnings received by the FBI and other agencies of the U.S. Government, including from Israel's Mossad. While many media sources decried as paranoiac the claim from Arab nations that Israelis stayed away from the World Trade Center on 9-11, it has been documented that the Mossad warned Washington and that a business half-owned by the Mossad terminated its lease before the attack, apparently aware that it was forthcoming based on the same warnings U.S. Government sources spurned.2) The tremendous profits earned through put options based on huge drops in American and United airline stocks as of September 11. This option windfall was totally unprecedented in Wall Street annals and almost certainly had to be predetermined based on advance knowledge. No other plausible explanation suffices.3) The report in European sources beginning with Paris newspaper Le Figaro, owned ironically by the controversial Carlyle Group, that the former head of ISI, the Pakistani intelligence agency, provided the lead September 11 skyjacker Atta with $100,000. The former ISI head quietly resigned after 9-11 and nothing has been said about including him and this incident in any foregoing investigation of 9-11.4) Links between the intelligence establishment and the terrorist skyjackers, as well as the two mysterious flight training schools in Venice, Florida run by Dutch nationals, one of whom received sponsorship support from none other than Catherine Harris.5) The fact that, contrary to FAA guidelines, the planes which crashed into the Pentagon and in a Pennslyvania field were not scrambled. This routine measure was undertaken in the case of golfer Payne Stewart when his plane encountered difficulties, but not in the case of the post-World Trade Center terrorist destruction. Cheney lied on the record when he reported, "This was the president's call." It is a pro forma call based on FAA regulations.6) U.S. Government archival evidence that an invasion of Afghanistan had been planned as far in advance of 9-11 as 1997, a point which needs to be carefully explored.These are some of the points made, and which need to be addressed by an independent investigator. The Bush Administration telegraphed its intentions by selecting initially definitive international dealmaker and Carlyle Group operative Henry Kissinger to head the official government

I am going to be blunt: The research behind this book will effectively recast history with respect to September 11, 2001. This brilliant UK-based author has compiled the relevant research from over 700 resources in the mainstream media and methodically and meticulously presented what the U.S. media and our government has refused to do - provide a comprehensive analysis of the events that surround that tragic day in September. I must confess, this is the most disturbing book that I have every read, and the implications about this government are so dire that it will bring tears to the eyes of the most hardened of men. I am an American and a patriot, but what the current Bush administration has done is set this country on an unavoidable collision course into a national crisis the likes of which we have not seen since the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. This immensely important book is a virtual indictment of the current administration, and we will soon have a crisis of legitimacy, trust and confidence in our own government. I cannot begin to articulate the importance of this book to every American who wants to understand why 3000 of our fellow citizens were murdered on the that awful morning, thus I will simply post a few statements from the author and quotes from our founding fathers in the hope that God will bless this country during our impending national crisis: "As far as the facts on record are concerned, the best explanation of them, in the opinion of this author, is one that points directly to U.S. state responsibility for the events of September 11th 2001. A detailed review of the facts points not only to Kabul, but to Riyadh, Islamabad and most principally, Washington. Furthermore, in the opinion of this author, the documentation presented in this study strongly suggests, though not necessarily conclusively, that significant elements of U.S. government, military and intelligence agencies had exclusive advance warning of the September 11th attacks, and were in various ways complicit in those attacks. This is certainly not a desirable inference, but it is one that best explains the available data.At the very least then, the facts on record demonstrate with certainty an ongoing U.S. policy of willful and reckless indifferences to American lives, motivated fundamentally by strategic and economic interests. This policy has been relentlessly pursued, regardless of the dangers to American lives, of which the U.S. policy-making establishment is fully aware. This policy therefore amounts, even at the lowest possible level of involvement, to deliberate if indirect complicity in the September 11th attacks, on the part of the Bush administration.Although it is the opinion of this author that the documentation gathered strongly indicates the conscious complicity of the Bush administration in the 9/11 attacks, it should once again be emphasized that this stuffy does not aim to provide a conclusive or exhaustive analysis. It is primarily inten