Give us some truth
Ten years on from the World Trade Center attack, the suspicion is mounting that US intelligence knows something they’re determined to keep from the public...
Anne Sexton, 13 Sep 2011
In 2010, a survey found that one in four Americans believed that 9/11 had been designed to facilitate the Bush administration’s so-called ‘War on Terror’. The conspiracy theories range from those who believe that US officials either made or let 9/11 happen, to those who argue that a missile hit the Pentagon, that the Twin Towers couldn’t have fallen without demolition explosives, or that United 93 was shot down by the military. Why all the paranoia? Possibly because as Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan’s The Eleventh Day: The Ultimate Account of 9/11 clearly shows, there has been a cover-up.
“There is a huge amount of people who feel they haven’t been told the truth,” says Summers. “Bright people – not just the loony contingent.”
Explanations for the attack have been dogged with misinformation and downright lies from the very beginning, notes Swan.
“President Bush and Vice-President Cheney repeatedly suggested that al-Qaeda was backed by, or somehow linked to, Iraq and Saddam Hussein. They did this in a drip feed in the months prior to the invasion of Iraq and it convinced a lot of people. That has lingered on long after that has been proven to be untrue.”
These lies and half-truths are responsible for the widespread distrust of the official account.
“There would have been rumours anyway, but the administration really asked for it by saying things which were provably not true,” says Summers. “When you do that, one wonders what you are actually hiding.”
“You have conspiracy theorists starting to raise ideas about the Bush administration having been in some way behind it, such as the two famous theories – ‘Made it happen on purpose’ or, ‘Let it happen on purpose’ – MIHOP and LIHOP. There is no evidence whatsoever to support either of them, but when, in the light of that, they proceed to invade Iraq, that’s just throwing petrol on the fire of the idea of a homemade event.”
There is, however, evidence to suggest that people close to the Saudi power nexus may have facilitated the attacks or at least given support to the terrorists.
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