By Noam Chomsky, ZNet, Sep. 5, 2011
Source: In These Times
The impact of the attacks is not in doubt. Just keeping to western and central Asia: Afghanistan is barely surviving, Iraq has been devastated and Pakistan is edging closer to a disaster that could be catastrophic.
On May 1, 2011, the presumed mastermind of the crime, Osama bin Laden, was assassinated in Pakistan. The most immediate significant consequences have also occurred in Pakistan. There has been much discussion of Washington’s anger that Pakistan didn’t turn over bin Laden. Less has been said about the fury among Pakistanis that the U.S. invaded their territory to carry out a political assassination. Anti-American fervor had already intensified in Pakistan, and these events have stoked it further.
One of the leading specialists on Pakistan, British military historian Anatol Lieven, wrote in The National Interest in February that the war in Afghanistan is “destabilizing and radicalizing Pakistan, risking a geopolitical catastrophe for the United States — and the world — which would dwarf anything that could possibly occur in Afghanistan.”
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All do not buy the official version of 9/11
We know that there is only one big story of 9/11, which the United States government presented and most of the people around the world accepted it as true. However, there were some who had some minor reservations about the details but they accepted the main account. Noam Chomsky happens to be one of them.
But what does the truth movement about the 9/11 say? A lot of experts, physicists, metallurgists, and engineers have offered their views that contradict the official version. Can some luminary explain why the opinions of these experts have been marginalised, ignored or not taken into account to look into the whole scenario of 9/11? There are far too many questions still in the air.
The following paper written by two experts throws some light on The Pentagon Attack on 9/11. Let's hope, among others, Professor Chomsky will also find time to read it:
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/09/06/the-pentagon-attack-on-911/
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