Yesterday, I wrote about the terror of 11 September 2001, on the tenth anniversary of the attacks. This year's commemoration has seen thousands of articles (literally) and many books have been published. I mentioned that the reasons for terror still exist and the US denies them. Therefore, it will pay the price for its policy in the Middle East which serves Israel at the expense of America's interests and ours, and we will pay the price along with it. If it is presumable for me to say something like this, today I have a fair witness, one that is neither Arab nor with the Israelis. The information is documented and original sources are used, which wards off any doubts. Today, I will rely on the book "The Eleventh Day: The Ultimate Account of 9/11," written by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan. They obtained hundreds of thousands of official documents, evidence and testimony, since the fall of the Soviet Union and the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the beginning of al-Qaida, and the subsequent terror, up to the present. The sources section of the book begins on p. 451 and ends on p. 654. I don't know if I have ever read a book as big as the sources and references; even my colleagues Jamal Khashoggi and Abdel-Bari Atwan are mentioned. Jamal tells how he contacted Osama bin Laden at the end of the 1980s, and says how al-Qaida was an organization that gathered the names and addresses of mujahidin. He talks about how if jihad required fighters from the Philippines, Central Asia or anywhere else in the world, the fighters could be contacted immediately. Atwan, meanwhile, talks about how Mohammed Atef, bin Laden's strategic assistant , contacted him after the failed American missile strike against a meeting that was not attended by the al-Qaida leader, in revenge for the attacks against the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar al-Salam. He relayed a message from Osama bin Laden, threatening the United States with a huge response to this attack. The book makes clear that the Americans, at the beginning, were not concerned with Osama bin Laden, and considered him a rogue terrorist or financer of terror. The agency responsible for following activities of people like him was tasked with curbing terror financing, as indicated by its name. However, bin Laden's declaration of jihad in August 1996 warned the Americans of his danger. Bill Clinton tasked various intelligence agencies with following up the matter; then came the terror against the two embassies on 7 August 1998, as the war between the two sides official began. For me, as an Arab reader, the entire book is important. However, the most significant part is its explanation of the motives of terrorists. After 11 September 2001, the Israeli lobby, pro-Israeli media and fanatical think tanks promoted the argument that the terrorists were crazy beasts and religious extremists, divorced from political reality. But the two authors say that "Palestine was the issue that unified the conspirators - at every level." They say that this reality was deliberately omitted from the report on terror by an official government committee. But the committee's chairman and vice-chairman admitted later that some of the members insisted on the religious motivation behind terror and rejected the idea of mentioning the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the report. The result, the authors say, was that the failure to mention US Middle East policy as a reason for the terror of 11 September 2001 took this basic point out of the resulting debate in the US about the motives behind terror and ways to defeat it. Every Arab writer has said as much, after the terror in New York and Washington, but it is important to see this mentioned in the book "The Eleventh Day." It was written by two British authors who have all of the official information about this terror, and what came before and after. Personally, I believe that the US lost the war on terror because the majority of the US Congress (Joe Lieberman in the Senate and Ilena Ros-Lehtinen in the House are the most striking examples) work for Israel, at the expense of America's own interests, to the degree that the voting record of the Congress is much worse than the Knesset itself. The disaster is when a presidential failure arrives – senile like Ronald Reagan, or an imbecile like George W Bush. The war cabal takes over power, for the idiot president, and as a result the US loses both the peace and the war, and brings the world to the brink of economic disaster with it. [email protected]
