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-Caveat Lector- ----- Original Message -----From: chris.osborneSent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 1:19 AMSubject: Fw: Was the Bush Administration Complicit in 9/11?To:Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 5:09 AMSubject: Fw: Was the Bush Administration Complicit in 9/11?Book Review: The New Pearl HarborWas the Bush Administration Complicit in 9/11?
by Dr. Rosemary Radford Ruether
Until recently I dismissed the suggestions that the
Bush administration might have been complicit in
allowing 9/11 to happen as groundless "conspiracy
theory." I regarded the federal investigative
bureaucracies as suffering from a "lock the barn door
after the horse has escaped" syndrome. American
government agencies seemed to me to be full of
repressive energy and exaggerated overreach after some
atrocity had occurred, but remarkably incompetent when
it came to preventing something in advance. There is no
question that the Bush administration has profited
greatly from the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon, but I did not imagine that they could
have actually known they were being planned and
deliberately allowed them to happen.Thus it was with some skepticism that I agreed to read
the new book written by David Ray Griffin, a process
theologian from the Claremont School of Theology
(Claremont, California), that argues the case for just
such complicity. This book, The New Pearl Harbor:
Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and
9/11, is due for release in January, 2004. Griffin
admits that he too was skeptical toward such
suggestions until he began to actually read the
evidence that has been accumulated by a number of researchers,
both in the United States and Europe. As he became
increasingly convinced that there was a case for
complicity, he planned to write an article, but this
quickly grew into a book.The first startling piece of evidence that Griffin puts
forward is establishing the motive among leaders in the
Bush administration for allowing such an attack.
Already in 2000 the right-wing authors of the "Project
for the New American Century: Rebuilding America's
Defenses," opined that the military expansion they
desired would be difficult unless a "new Pearl Harbor"
occurred. They had outlined plans for a major imperial
expansion of American power that included a greatly
increased military budget and invasions of Afghanistan
and Iraq, primarily to secure oil supplies, but also to
control the region generally. But they believed that
the American people would not have the will for such
actions without some devastating attack from outside
that would galvanize them through fear and anger to
support it. In short, they had already envisioned
facilitating a major attack on the United States in
order to gain the public support for their policy
goals.Griffin then shows the considerable evidence that the
Bush administration knew in advance that such an attack
was being planned, despite claims by the administration
that such an attack was completely unanticipated. As
early as 1995 the Philippine police conveyed to the
U.S. information found on an Al-Queda computer that
detailed "Project Bojinka" that envisioned hyjacking
planes and flying them into targets, such as the World
Trade Center, the White House and the Pentagon. By July
of 2001 the CIA and the FBI had intercepted
considerable information that such an attack was
planned for the Fall. Leaders of several different
countries, including the Taliban in Afghanistan, as
well as leaders of Russia, Britain, Jordan, Egypt and
Israel, conveyed information to the United States that
such an attack was being planned. It appears not only
that all these warnings were disregarded, but that
investigations into them were obstructed.The actual events of September 11 leave many puzzling
questions. Standard procedures for intervention when a
plane goes off course were not followed in the case of
all four airplanes. Within ten minutes of evidence that
a plane has been hyjacked standard procedures call for
fighter jets to intervene and demand that the plane
follow it to an airport. If the plane fails to obey, it
should be shot down. There was time for this to happen
before the plane was over New York City in the case of
the first jet and more than ample time in the case of
the second. Moreover when the order was finally given
to intervene, it was not to McGuire Air Force Base in
New Jersey, seventy miles from New York City, but from
Otis Air National Guard in Cape Cod.Griffin also examines unexplained issues about the
other two planes. Eye witnesses and on-site evidence
suggests that a missile or guided fighter aircraft, not
a large commercial plane, crashed into the Pentagon.
Moreover the part of the Pentagon that was hit was not
where high ranking generals were working, but an area
under repair with few military officials. Flight #93
was the only plane shot down, although only after it
appeared passengers were on the verge of taking
control. Griffin also examines the conduct of President
Bush on that day, giving considerable evidence that he
knew of the first crash immediately after it happened,
but delayed his response for some half a hour,
nonchalantly continuing with a photo op with elementary
school children.These are only a few details of the myriad data that
Griffin assembles to show that, not only did the Bush
administration have detailed information that such
attacks were going to occur on September 11 and failed
to carry through protective responses in advance, but
that they also obstructed the standard procedures to
intervene in these events on the actual day it
happened.Griffin concludes the book with some considerable
evidence of the way the Bush Administration has
obstructed any independent investigation of 9/11 since
it occurred, both withholding key documents and
insisting that the official investigation, when it was
set up, limit itself to recommendations about how to
avoid such an event in the future, and not focus on how
it actually was able to happen. Griffin writes in a
precise and careful fashion, avoiding inflammatory
rhetoric. He argues for a high probability for the Bush
Administration's complicity in allowing and
facilitating the attacks, based not on any one
conclusive piece of evidence, but the sheer
accumulation of all of the data. He concludes by
calling for a genuinely independent investigative
effort that would examine all this evidence. He himself
plans to send the book to the Kean Commission presently
charged with that task, even though he has doubts about
its real independence.I personally found Griffin's book both convincing and
chilling. If the complicity of the Bush Administration
to which he points is true, then Americans have a far
greater problem on their hands than even the more
ardent anti-war critics have imagined. If the
administration would do this, what else would they do
to maintain and expand their power?==========================================(Dr. Rosemary Radford Ruether has been a pioneer
Christian feminist theologian for over three decades
and is among the most widely read theologians in the
world. Her book, Sexism and God-Talk, a classic in the
field of theology, remains the only systematic feminist
treatment of the Christian symbols to date. With
wide-ranging scholarship, Dr. Ruether has written and
edited over thirty books and hundreds of articles and
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