John Pilger und seine Einschätzung zu 9/11
Der englische Journalist und Menschenrechtsaktivist John Pilger auf der 2010 Anarchist Bookfair in London. Unter anderem diskutierte er seine Position zu den offenen Fragen der Anschläge des 9. September 2001.
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John Pilger: “Ich denke es gibt eine Menge Beweise, dass gewisse Elemente in der Regierung Bush, entweder absichtlich oder auf Grund ihrer arroganten Inkompetenz, ich weiß nicht, Dinge geschehen ließen. Ich denke es gibt genügend Beweise für...
Wir wissen von den FBI-Agenten, die im Jahr 2001 Warnungen gaben. Wir wissen über die unglaubliche Inaktivität vom NORAD am 11.09.2001. Wir wissen, dass Cheney an der Macht im Weißen Haus war an diesem Tag.
Ich denke, am plausibelsten ist "Lasst es geschehen", nun, in welcher Kategorie es geschehen gelassen wurde, weiß ich nicht. Aber das sieht mir am plausibelsten aus. Es gibt keine Zweifel, dass 9/11 die Gelegenheit für einen neuen "Kalten Krieg" war, genannt "Krieg gegen den Terror". Aber über das hinaus würde ich nicht..." John Pilger
At the 2010 Anarchist Bookfair in London there was a discussion with independent journalist and filmmaker John Pilger (which was recorded – listen below) and one of the questions from the audience was about the attacks on 9/11. The following is a transcript of the question and his reply:
Audience Question: “I would like to ask your views or theory that the US government was complicit in or even perpetrated the attacks on 9/11 to gain support for criminal [inaudible] Afghanistan and Iraq?”
John Pilger: “I think there is a lot of evidence that certain elements in the Bush administration, whether by intent or by or by their own arrogant incompetence, I don’t know, let things happen. I think there is enough evidence to…
We know the senior FBI people who gave warnings right throughout 2001. We know about the extraordinary inactivity by the NORAD aircraft on the day of September 11th. We know that Cheney was in charge of the White House on that day.
I think the most plausible is the “let it happen”, now at what stage it was let happen, I don’t know, I don’t know. But certainly that seems to me, the most plausible.
There is no doubt that 9/11 became the opportunity for a new “Cold War” basically, only called the “War on Terror”. But beyond that I wouldn’t want to…”
(Moderationskriterien von Indymedia Deutschland)
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http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=143
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