Islamabad: In a sensational and explosive TV
report, the Pakistani News Agency has provided a live interview with an
eyewitness to the U.S. attack on the alleged compound of Osama bin
Laden reports TT.
The eye witness, Mohammad Bashir, describes the event as it
unfolded. Of the three helicopters, “there was only one that landed the
men and came back to pick them up, but as he (the helicopter) was
picking them up, it blew away and caught fire.” The witness says that
there were no survivors, just dead bodies and pieces of bodies
everywhere. “We saw the helicopter burning, we saw the dead bodies, then
everything was removed and now there is nothing.”
I always wondered how a helicopter could crash, as the White House
reported, without at least producing injuries. Yet, in the original
White House story, the SEALs not only survived a 40-minute firefight
with Al-Qaeda, “the most highly trained, most dangerous, most vicious
killers on the planet,” without a scratch, but also survived a
helicopter crash without a scratch.
The Pakistani news report is available on YouTube. The Internet
site, Veterans Today, posted a translation along with a video of the
interview. Information Clearing House made it available on May 17.
If the interview is not a hoax and the translation is correct,
we now know the answer to the unasked question: Why was there no White
House ceremony with President Obama pinning medals all over the heroic
SEALs who tracked down and executed Public Enemy Number One?
The notion that Obama had to keep the SEALs’ identity secret in
order to protect the SEALs from al Qaeda detracts from the heroic tough
guy image of the SEALs, and it strains credulity that Obama’s political
handlers would not have milked the occasion for all it is worth.
Other than on the Veterans Today and ICH Internet sites, I have
not seen any mention of the Pakistani news story. If the White House
press corps is aware of the report, no one has asked President Obama or
his press spokesperson about it. Helen Thomas was the last American
reporter sufficiently brave to ask such a question, and she was
exterminated by the Israel Lobby.
In America we have reached the point where anyone who tells the
truth is dismissed as a “conspiracy theorist” and marginalized.
Recently, a professor of nano-chemistry from the University of
Copenhagen made a lecture tour of major Canadian universities explaining
the research, conducted by himself and a team of physicists and
engineers, that resulted in finding small particles of unreacted
nano-thermite in dust samples from the wreckage of the World Trade
Center towers, in addition to other evidence that the professor and the
research team regard as conclusive scientific proof that the towers were
brought down by controlled demolition.
No American university dared to invite him, and as far as I
know, no mention of the explosive research report has ever appeared in
the American press.
I find it astonishing that 1,500 architects and engineers, who
actually know something about buildings, their construction, their
strength and weaknesses, and who have repeatedly requested a real
investigation of the destruction of the three WTC buildings, are
regarded as conspiracy kooks by people who know nothing whatsoever about
architecture or engineering or buildings. The same goes for the large
number of pilots who question the flight maneuvers carried out during
the attacks, and the surviving firemen and “first responders” who report
both hearing and personally experiencing explosions in the towers, some
of which occurred in sub-basements.
A large number of high-ranking political figures abroad don’t
believe a word of the official 9/11 story. For example, the former
president of Italy and dean of the Italian Senate, told Italy’s oldest
newspaper, Corriere delia Sera, that the intelligence services of Europe
“know well that the disastrous (9/11) attack has been planned and
realized by the American CIA and the (Israeli) Mossad . . . in order to
put under accusation the Arabic Countries and in order to induce the
western powers to take part in (the invasions).”
Even people who report that there are dissenting views, as I
have done, are branded conspiracy theorists and banned from the media.
This extends into the Internet in addition to newspapers and TV. Not
long ago a reporter for the Internet site, The Huffington Post,
discovered that Pat Buchanan and I are critics of the Iraq and
Afghanistan invasions. He was fascinated that there were some Reagan
administration officials who dissented from the Republican Party’s war
position and asked to interview me.
After he posted the interview on The Huffington Post, someone
told him that I was not sound on 9/11. In a panic the reporter
contacted me, demanding to know if I disbelieved the official 9/11
story. I replied that being neither architect, engineer, physicist,
chemist, pilot, nor firefighter, I had little to contribute to
understanding the event, but that I had reported that various experts
had raised questions.
The reporter was terrified that he might somehow have given a
9/11 skeptic credibility and be fired for interviewing me about my war
views for The Huffington Post. He quickly added at the beginning and, if
memory serves, ending of the posted interview words to the effect that
my lack of soundness on 9/11 meant that my views on the wars could be
disregarded. If only he had known that I was unsure about the official
9/11 story, there would have been no interview.
One doesn’t have to be a scientist, architect, engineer, pilot
or firefighter to notice astonishing anomalies in the 9/11 story. Assume
that the official story is correct and that a band of terrorists
outwitted not only the CIA and FBI, but also all 16 US intelligence
agencies and those of our NATO allies and Israel’s notorious Mossad,
along with the National Security Council, NORAD, air traffic control and
airport security four times in one hour on the same morning. Accept
that this group of terrorists pulled off a feat worthy of a James Bond
movie and delivered a humiliating blow to the world’s only superpower.
If something like this really happened, would not the president,
the Congress, and the media be demanding to know how such an improbable
thing could have happened? Investigation and accountability would be
the order of the day. Yet President Bush and Vice President Cheney
resisted the pleas and demands for an investigation from the 9/11
families for one year, or was it two, before finally appointing a
non-expert committee of politicians to listen to whatever the government
chose to tell them. One of the politicians resigned from the commission
on the grounds that “the fix is in.”
Even the two chairmen and the chief legal counsel of the 9/11
Commission wrote books in which they stated that they believe that
members of the military and other parts of the government lied to the
commission and that the commission considered referring the matter for
investigation and prosecution.
Thomas Kean, chairman of the 9/11 Commission, said: “FAA and
NORAD officials advanced an account of 9/11 that was untrue . . . We, to
this day don’t know why NORAD told us what they told us . . . It was
just so far from the truth.”
Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton said: “We had a very short time frame
. . . we did not have enough money . . . We had a lot of people
strongly opposed to what we did. We had a lot of trouble getting access
to documents and to people. . . . So there were all kinds of reasons we
thought we were set up to fail.”
As far as I know, not a single member of the government or the
media made an issue of why the military would lie to the commission.
This is another anomaly for which we have no explanation.
The greatest puzzle is the conclusion drawn by a national
audience from watching on their TV screens the collapse of the WTC
towers. Most seem satisfied that the towers fell down as a result of
structural damage inflicted by the airliners and from limited,
low-temperature fires. Yet what the images show is not buildings
falling down, but buildings blowing up. Buildings that are destroyed by
fires and structural damage do not disintegrate in 10 seconds or less
into fine dust with massive steel beams sliced at each floor level by
high temperatures that building fires cannot attain. It has never
happened, and it never will.
Conduct an experiment. Free your mind of the programmed
explanation of the towers’ destruction and try to discern what your eyes
are telling you as you watch the videos of the towers that are
available online. Is that the way buildings fall down from damage, or is
that the way buildings are brought down by explosives? Little doubt,
many Americans prefer the official story to the implications that follow
from concluding that the official story is untrue.
If reports are correct, the U.S. government has gone into the
business of managing the public’s perceptions of news and events.
Apparently, the Pentagon has implemented Perception Management
Psychological Operations. There are also reports that the State
Department and other government agencies use Facebook and Twitter to
stir up problems for the Syrian, Iranian, Russian, Chinese, and
Venezuela governments in efforts to unseat governments not controlled by
Washington. In addition, there are reports that both governments and
private organizations employ “trolls” to surf the Internet and to
attempt to discredit in blogs and comment sections reports and writers
who are out of step with their interests. I believe I have encountered
trolls myself.
In addition to managing our perceptions, much is simply never
reported. On May 19, 2011, the fourteen-decade-old British newspaper,
The Statesman, reported that the Press Trust of India has reported that
the Chinese government has warned Washington “in unequivocal terms that
any attack on Pakistan would be construed as an attack on China,” and
advised the U.S. government “to respect Pakistan’s sovereignty.”
As trends forecaster Gerald Celente and I have warned, the
warmongers in Washington are driving the world toward World War III.
Once a country is captured by its military/security complex, the demand
for profit drives the country deeper into war. Perhaps this news report
from India is a hoax, or perhaps the never-diligent mainstream media
will catch up with the news tomorrow, but so far this extraordinary
warning from China has not been reported in the U.S. media. (I had it
posted on OEN.)
The mainstream media and a significant portion of the Internet
are content for our perceptions to be managed by psy-ops and by
non-reporting. This is why I wrote not long ago that today Americans are
living in George Orwell’s 1984.
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury,
associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, a member of the
congressional staff, and held academic appointments at Stanford
University, Georgetown University, VirginiaTech, Tulane University,
George Mason University, and the University of New Mexico.
