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September 11, 2001: “Who Attacked Our Country”? … Said George W Bush
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by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
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Global Research, August 12, 2012
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- 2001-09-21
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Editor’s Note
For the next month until September 11, 2012, we will posting on a daily basis important articles from our early archives pertaining to the tragic events of 9/11. The following text was published on September 21, 2001, following Bush’s address to the US Congress on September 20, 2001, in which he accuses Al Qaeda of perpetrating the 9/11 attacks. It is important to emphasize that in the immediate wake of the 9/11 attacks, public opinion in North America and Western Europe (with some exceptions) was largely supportive of the official narrative as conveyed in Bush’s historical address.
Michel Chossudovsky, August 12, 2012 Originally Posted on Global Research at globalresearch.ca 21 September 2001 Since the Soviet-Afghan war, recruiting Mujahedin (“holy warriors”) to fight covert wars on Washington’s behest has become an integral part of US foreign policy. A 1997 document of the US Congress reveals how the Clinton administration –under advice from the National Security Council headed by Anthony Lake– had “helped turn Bosnia into a militant Islamic base” leading to the recruitment through the so-called “Militant Islamic Network,” of thousands of Mujahedin from the Muslim world. The “Bosnian pattern” has since been replicated in Kosovo, Southern Serbia and Macedonia. Among the foreign mercenaries now fighting with the Kosovo Liberation Army(KLA) in Macedonia are Mujahedin from the Middle East and the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. Also within the ranks of the Kosovo Liberation Army are senior US military advisers from a private mercenary outfit on contract to the Pentagon as well as “soldiers of fortune” from Britain, Holland and Germany. |
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