Robert Scheer: Gaping Holes in the 9/11 Narrative

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Robert Scheer: Gaping Holes in the 9/11 Narrative
A Dig led by Robert Scheer
Five years out from the attacks, why do we still know so little about what really happened that day?
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>What we still don’t know about 9/11 could kill us. By “we” I mean the public that has been kept in the dark for five years by a president who may know the truth but has chosen to ignore it. Instead of grappling with the thorny origins of that disaster, George Bush willfully turned the nation’s attention and resources to a totally unrelated and disastrous imperial adventure in Iraq.

Just how unrelated was definitively established last Friday with the belated release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s second report, which concluded that there not only was zero connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, but that Iraq was the one country in the region where Osama bin Laden could not operate.

Unfortunately, that was not true of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, the two countries that had recognized and otherwise supported the Taliban government that hosted bin Laden during the run-up to 9/11. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, and yet there has been no serious investigation of the extended Royal family’s roll in the recruitment of bin Laden’s “soldiers” and the ease with which they secured legal visas to enter the United States.

While funds for Al Qaeda emanated from the Saudi kingdom, the essential logistical support for Al Qaeda came from Pakistan. Now, five years later, bin Laden and the remnants of his organization are assumed by the United States to have found refuge in Pakistan’s unruly tribal region, where the Pakistan government recently has reduced its forces, conceding that it could not defeat local tribesmen sympathetic to the Taliban.<

http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/20060910_robert_scheer_holes_9_11/

[Old and In the Way]

1. Kingdom Holdings is a big investor in CNN and NewsCorp.

Probably Disney and GE/NBC as well. Will the MSM ever bother to take a critical look at the events of 9/11? Probably not.

[AtomicKitten]

2. nope

they'd rather dramatize the events, otherwise known as lying with intent to mislead

[oasis]

3. The L.A.Times dumps Robert Scheer and hires Jonah Goldberg.

The corporate media doesn't "dig" the truth.