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Re: U.N. Official Calls for Study Of Neocons' Role in 9/11
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bobby ramakant
Apr 10, 2008, 11:04:24 PM4/10/08
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On Apr 11, 8:45 am, "Mark Graffis" <mgraf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www2.nysun.com/article/74465
>
> U.N. Official Calls for Study Of Neocons' Role in 9/11
> By ELI LAKE
> Staff Reporter of the Sun
> April 10, 2008
>
> WASHINGTON A new U.N. Human Rights Council official assigned to monitor
> Israel is calling for an official commission to study the role
> neoconservatives may have played in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
>
> On March 26, Richard Falk, Milbank professor of international law emeritus at
> Princeton University, was named by unanimous vote to a newly created position
> to report on human rights in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian
> Arabs. While Mr. Falk's specialty is human rights and international law, since
> the attacks in 2001, he has devoted some of his time to challenging what he
> calls the "9-11 official version."
>
> On March 24 in an interview with a radio host and former University of
> Wisconsin instructor, Kevin Barrett, Mr. Falk said, "It is possibly true that
> especially the neoconservatives thought there was a situation in the country
> and in the world where something had to happen to wake up the American people.
> Whether they are innocent about the contention that they made that something
> happen or not, I don't think we can answer definitively at this point. All we
> can say is there is a lot of grounds for suspicion, there should be an
> official investigation of the sort the 9/11 commission did not engage in and
> that the failure to do these things is cheating the American people and in
> some sense the people of the world of a greater confidence in what really
> happened than they presently possess."
>
> Mr. Barrett, who is the co-founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for
> 9/11 Truth, said in an interview yesterday of Mr. Falk, "I would put him on a
> list of scholars who are sympathetic to the 9/11 truth movement."
>
> He added, "Unlike most public intellectuals today, he is both honest and very,
> very knowledgeable in that he understands the probable reality of 9/11. He
> understands that the evidence that it was a false flag operation is very
> strong."
>
> The narrative that the attacks from 2001 were a "false flag" operation is a
> recurring theme in the literature challenging the consensus that 19 Al Qaeda
> hijackers flew commercial jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
> False flag refers to espionage or covert actions taken by one government made
> to seem like the work of another. The false flag thesis has it that the Bush
> administration is somehow responsible for the September 11 attacks as a
> pretext for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
>
> Mr. Falk yesterday did not return e-mails and phone calls asking for a
> comment. But in 2004 he wrote the foreword to the book "The New Pearl Harbor,"
> by David Ray Griffin. Mr. Griffin has posited that such an inside job is the
> likely explanation for the attacks.
> http://www2.nysun.com/article/74465
>
> U.N. Official Calls for Study Of Neocons' Role in 9/11
> By ELI LAKE
> Staff Reporter of the Sun
> April 10, 2008
>
> WASHINGTON A new U.N. Human Rights Council official assigned to monitor
> Israel is calling for an official commission to study the role
> neoconservatives may have played in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
>
> On March 26, Richard Falk, Milbank professor of international law emeritus at
> Princeton University, was named by unanimous vote to a newly created position
> to report on human rights in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian
> Arabs. While Mr. Falk's specialty is human rights and international law, since
> the attacks in 2001, he has devoted some of his time to challenging what he
> calls the "9-11 official version."
>
> On March 24 in an interview with a radio host and former University of
> Wisconsin instructor, Kevin Barrett, Mr. Falk said, "It is possibly true that
> especially the neoconservatives thought there was a situation in the country
> and in the world where something had to happen to wake up the American people.
> Whether they are innocent about the contention that they made that something
> happen or not, I don't think we can answer definitively at this point. All we
> can say is there is a lot of grounds for suspicion, there should be an
> official investigation of the sort the 9/11 commission did not engage in and
> that the failure to do these things is cheating the American people and in
> some sense the people of the world of a greater confidence in what really
> happened than they presently possess."
>
> Mr. Barrett, who is the co-founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for
> 9/11 Truth, said in an interview yesterday of Mr. Falk, "I would put him on a
> list of scholars who are sympathetic to the 9/11 truth movement."
>
> He added, "Unlike most public intellectuals today, he is both honest and very,
> very knowledgeable in that he understands the probable reality of 9/11. He
> understands that the evidence that it was a false flag operation is very
> strong."
>
> The narrative that the attacks from 2001 were a "false flag" operation is a
> recurring theme in the literature challenging the consensus that 19 Al Qaeda
> hijackers flew commercial jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
> False flag refers to espionage or covert actions taken by one government made
> to seem like the work of another. The false flag thesis has it that the Bush
> administration is somehow responsible for the September 11 attacks as a
> pretext for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
>
> Mr. Falk yesterday did not return e-mails and phone calls asking for a
> comment. But in 2004 he wrote the foreword to the book "The New Pearl Harbor,"
> by David Ray Griffin. Mr. Griffin has posited that such an inside job is the
> likely explanation for the attacks.
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