"Osama Bin Laden is dead, Justice has been done."- President Obama, 1 May 2011.
On October 29, 2004, the Arab television network, Al Jazeera, broadcasted excerpts from a videotape of Osama bin Laden speaking in Arabic and addressing Americans, in which he accepted responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks, condemned the Bush government's response to the attacks and also admitted the attacks were a part of a campaign of revenge and deterrence motivated by his witnessing of the destruction in the Lebanese Civil War in 1982.
The tape also contained bin Laden's first public acknowledgment of al-Qaeda's involvement in the attacks on the U.S., noting that he first thought about attacking the World Trade Center in 1982, after watching Israeli aircraft bomb Lebanon during the 1982 Invasion of Lebanon:
"While I was looking at these destroyed towers in Lebanon, it sparked in my mind that the tyrant should be punished with the same and that we should destroy towers in America, so that it tastes what we taste and would be deterred from killing our children and women."
Khalid Sheikh Mohammad involvement in the terror upon America, "By his own account"stemmed from his violent disagreement with U.S. foreign policy favoring Israel." [1]
Abdulmutallab's attempt to blow up a plane on Christmas Day in 2009, was fueled by "his sympathies toward the Palestinians and anger over Israel's actions in Gaza." [Ibid]
A few days after THAT DAY, President Bush
went on TV and told we the people to "GO SHOP" if we wanted to HELP and that
"They hated us because we were free!"
I did NOT want to shop and I did NOT react with FEAR to THAT DAY, but intense
curiosity. I wondered if "THEY' hated us so much to target and murder innocent
people had something to do with Americans mindless over consumption of the
world's resources and apathy towards the poor, oppressed and occupied.
Up until THAT DAY we call 9/11, I was a typical self-satisfied, self-centered,
uninformed, misinformed comfortably numb American. THAT DAY changed everything
and even though I did not know any of the innocent who were terrorized nor
their families or friends, I felt a visceral connection and reacted by researching
so as to learn WHY some people in the world hated US so much that they could
target and murder innocent ones. I learned PLENTY!
On THAT DAY we call 9/11, the media assumed the role of secretaries taking down
dictation but "Patriotism
means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or
any other public official." -Theodore Roosevelt
In December 2001, FOX News began a four
part series -that has since been removed from their website- regarding Israel's
spying on America.
In Part One, host Brit Hume stated:
"It has been more than 16 years since a civilian working for the Navy was
charged with passing secrets to Israel. Jonathan Pollard pled guilty to
conspiracy to commit espionage and is serving a life sentence. At first,
Israeli leaders claimed Pollard was part of a rogue operation, but later took
responsibility for his work. Now Fox News has learned some U.S. investigators
believe that there are Israelis again very much engaged in spying in and on the
U.S., who may have known things they didn't tell us before September 11. Fox
News correspondent Carl Cameron has details in the first of a four-part
series." [2]
Carl Cameron reported, "Since September 11, more than 60 Israelis have
been arrested or detained, either under the new patriot anti-terrorism law, or
for immigration violations. A handful of active Israeli military were among
those detained, according to investigators, who say some of the detainees also
failed polygraph questions when asked about alleged surveillance activities
against and in the United States. There is no indication that the Israelis were
involved in the 9-11 attacks, but investigators suspect that they Israelis may
have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance, and not shared it. A
highly placed investigator said there are "tie-ins." But when asked
for details, he flatly refused to describe them, saying, "evidence linking
these Israelis to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has
been gathered. Its classified information."
Numerous classified documents obtained by Fox News indicated that even prior to
September 11; as many as 140 other Israelis had been detained or arrested in a
secretive and sprawling investigation into suspected espionage by Israelis in
the United States. Investigators from numerous government agencies are part of
a working group that's been compiling evidence since the mid '90s. These
documents detail hundreds of incidents in cities and towns across the country
that investigators say, "May well be an organized intelligence gathering activity."
"Why would Israelis spy in and on the U.S.? A general accounting office
investigation referred to Israel as country A and said, 'According to a U.S.
intelligence agency, the government of country A conducts the most aggressive
espionage operations against the U.S. of any U.S. ally.'
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