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At 10:22 PM +0900 1/5/02, G.R. wrote: >My Rejected Column > > by Jack Rain > >Two days after the Attack on America, I wrote a column stating my >suspicions that Israel might be behind the attack. I knew my column >was a hot potato and really didn't expect it to be picked up by the >websites I submitted it to (I sent it to Strike The Root and >LewRockwell.com). As expected, both Rob and Lew rejected the >column, but at least I was on record with them personally. I didn't >send it to any anti-Jewish sites, which I am sure would have jumped >at the theorizing in the column. > >I didn't send it to those sites because I wasn't coming from an >anti-Israeli or anti-Jewish perspective. If I had sent it to one of >those sites, it could very easily have been dismissed as an >anti-Semitic rant. I have no such axe to grind. I was simply >writing a column on a gut feel from my personal experiences on how >the world sometimes works. > >Since I wrote the column, my belief that Israeli operatives may have >played a role in the attack is even stronger. It has since come out >that Secretary of State Colin Powell was to have given a speech >calling for a Palestinian state. The attack preempted the speech, >which benefited Israel. > >Fox News and Justin Raimondo are both now implying, if not >completely stating, that Israel had to at least have known about the >attacks in advance. I continue to contend that it MAY have played >some role. > >My original article is below; read it carefully. Unlike George >Bush, I did not immediately accuse Israel the way Bush immediately >accused bin Laden. I merely said that Israel was on my suspect list >based on the question, "Who benefits?" With the new information >that the attack stopped a speech by Colin Powell calling for a >Palestinian state, the benefit of the attack for Israel now seems >greater than when I first wrote my column. > >The Fox News reporting on suspicious activity by some Israelis now >lends some facts to my speculative thinking. > >Misdirection is a hallmark of secret operatives, and I believe it >may have been used in the Attack on America. Indeed, we know for a >fact that some of the terrorist hijackers who died in the suicide >attacks used misdirection even at the operational level when they >strapped weightlifting belts around their waists and told the >passengers they had bombs and were going to hijack the plane. This >misdirection was designed to keep the passengers controlled and >stopped them from understanding the true purpose of the mission. >(It was only a hijacking, not a suicide mission.) > >Israeli operatives may or may not have been behind the Attack on >America, but I think Israel has clearly benefited. They can, for >example, become much more aggressive "terrorist" fighters. The >federal government has now frozen Hamas' money here in the United >States, and Colin Powell delayed his speech calling for a >Palestinian state. Israel may have simply been a bystander aware of >the coming attack, and if so, my original column helps explain why >Israeli would have been a silent observer. But I think if you >believe that they could have been a silent observer, you also have >to put them on the suspect list. This doesn't mean that they >absolutely positively did it but, but simply that they cannot be >eliminated as suspects. The developments since I wrote my original >column on September 13 only harden my convictions that Israel must >remain on the suspect list as perhaps having some role, bin Laden's >confession notwithstanding. > >Bin Laden may have had some role in the attack, but the most recent >videotapes leaves me even less convinced of this possibility. In my >view, on the tapes bin Laden comes off as a lying braggart in front >of a potential money source ("Yeah I did it. Boy, more donations >for my next evil scheme would be great right now. Praise Allah.") >Real investigators know you always keep some information about a >crime secret to test the credibility of those confessing. In the >videotape, bin Laden doesn't say anything about the attack that >couldn't have been gleaned from news reports. He did not talk like >a man who was rationally analyzing the attack. "Yeah, we hit three >of four targets. By the way, that plane that crashed in >Pennsylvania was headed for XYZ. We will get XYZ next time." It was >100% chest pumping which provided zero new facts that weren't >already in the public venue. > >Here is my original rejected column. I believe it is time for a >full OPEN and thorough investigation of the attack conducted by >Congress to see who was truly behind the evil attack. No secret "We >have information we are going to share with Tony Blair" stuff, a >real thorough open inquiry. Who knew what when? Who did what when? >This was an attack on America. A full inquiry should be conducted >before the American people as to who was truly responsible. > >My Number One Suspect > >September 13, 2001 > >While Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and most of the rest of >the American media has placed Osama bin Laden at the top of the >suspect list for the attack on the World Trade Center towers and the >Pentagon, my personal suspect list is a little different. > >My list is different because when I ask the key question "Who >benefits from the attack?", bin Laden's name just does not jump out >at me. Yes, in a way, if bin Laden did pull this off, he has a new >recruiting slogan for future Muslim terrorists that would be >something along the lines of the U.S. Army's "Be all that you can >be" slogan. You know, something like, "Be all that you can be, join >the terrorists, fight Satan America and die for Allah." But he is >going to take big time heat for this attack, whether he conducted it >or not. Face it, the U.S., if it goes after this guy, will get him. >And bin Laden would have known this before such an attack. So would >he want to create such heat for himself? Maybe. Maybe he wants to >die a martyr like those who crashed the planes. But leaders in >general do not seem to be the martyr type. It's okay for their >followers to commit suicide, but generally, leaders like to be >around to direct the next suicide mission. > >Maybe he thinks he is invincible and that the United States won't be >able to get him. But if this is so, and he did it, why isn't he >taking responsibility for the attack? > >No, there are other suspects. And that is why I am not jumping on >the bin Laden as Number One suspect bandwagon. > >My prime suspect arises from thinking again about that all important >question, "Who benefits?" > >The biggest reaction to this attack is a new round of aggressive >talk from President Bush, Congress and European leaders that >terrorism must be stopped. "This is now war," Bush tells us. So a >prime suspect would then have to be anyone who wants a stepped up >fight against terrorism. Well lo and behold, there is such a group. >The state of Israel has been doing some heavy "terrorism fighting" >of late. They have been taking out a bunch of Palestinian leaders, >excuse me, Palestinian terrorists. > >Their attacks on targeted Palestinians have been so aggressive of >late that even the casual news observer has become aware of them. >In fact, the Bush administration labeled some recent Israeli attack >as "excessive." Boy, it's too bad the Bush administration didn't >know then what it knows now about Middle East terrorists. They >didn't realize it was war back then, I guess. But the Bush >administration attitude has certainly been changed by this attack in >America. Lucky for Israel, I guess. > >Or was this whole thing an operation of Mossad, Israel's equivalent >of the CIA? The Mossad is known for aggressive, manipulative >operations. Anyone in the intelligence world would agree that they >certainly would have the ability to pull this off. They are masters >of misdirection, and I think a lot of misdirection has been going on >of late. > >Consider: This whole well-organized operation went on for months, if >not years, without any clues that the American intelligence >community could detect. In other words, it was a very >sophisticated, well thought-out attack, with smart people behind it. >Then suddenly after the attack, there are clues all over the place. >Huh? The attackers used credit cards to purchase some of their >tickets that now link them to some of their operatives on the >ground. They left an Arabic flight manual in some luggage that >missed a connection. Why would someone knowing he was going to >crash a plane check a bag that contained a flight manual that then >misses its connection (lucky for the FBI)? This is a great clue >that points at Arabs, but it doesn't make any sense. > >The FBI is now on the chase of clues everywhere. A sophisticated, >well organized attack now seems to have been run by a bunch of >village idiots that got caught. Hmm. Luckily, in the World Trade >Center bombing a few years ago, the FBI was able to quickly find the >metal vehicle identification number from the van that carried the >bomb into the World Trade Center, and the idiot then went to get his >refund on the truck. Luckily, this time the idiots are leaving >clues all over the place. > >Yeah, the actual operatives who carry out these missions are >generally idiots. They are not savvy about the world around them. >They are run by "controls" who are very savvy. The controls know >how to pull these things off in utmost secrecy. And they know how >to get their operatives out without detection--if they want. If the >operatives are leaving sloppy after-the-fact clues all over the >place, it is because the controls want those clues around. If they >want those clue to point to Arab terrorists, they will. It is my >opinion that Mossad is the only group capable and the only group >having the incentive to pull this off. > >Yes, the actual attackers were Arab but they worked out of a "cell." >These idiots could have been told they worked for bin Laden. I >doubt most of them ever met bin Laden. It could have been a cell >run, in fact, by anyone. My bet is that it was run by the Mossad. >It is the theory that best fits the facts and is the only theory >that explains the total sophistication and secrecy of this operation >with clues now bursting out all over the place. > > >December 28, 2001 > >Jack Rain [send him e-mail] is a traveler and observer of world events. >Help Us Grow > ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================