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[ALOCHONA] Osama bin Laden’s Useful Death



Osama bin Laden's Useful Death

by Paul Craig Roberts

In a propaganda piece reeking of US Triumphalism, two alleged journalists, Adam Goldman and Chris Brummitt, of the Associated Press, or, rather, of the White House Ministry of Truth, write, or copy off a White House or CIA press release, that "Osama bin Laden, the terror mastermind killed by Navy SEALs in an intense firefight, was hunted down based on information first gleaned years ago from detainees at secret CIA prison sites in Eastern Europe, officials disclosed Monday" (emphasis added).

How many Americans will notice that the first paragraph of the "report" justifies CIA prisons and torture? Without secret prisons and torture "the terror mastermind" would still be running free, despite having died from renal failure in 2001.

How many Americans will have the wits to wonder why the "terror mastermind"—who defeated not merely the CIA and the FBI, but all 16 US intelligence agencies, along with Israel's Mossad and the intelligence services of NATO; who defeated NORAD, the National Security Council, the Pentagon and Joint Chiefs of Staff, the US Air Force, and Air Traffic Control; who caused security procedures to fail four times in US airports in one hour on the same day; who caused the state-of-the-art Pentagon air defenses to fail; and who managed to fly three airliners into three buildings with pilots who did not know how to fly—has not pulled off any other attack in almost ten years?  Do Americans really believe that a government's security system that can so totally fail when confronted with a few Saudi Arabians with box cutters can renew itself to perfection overnight?

How many Americans will notice the resurrection of the long missing bin Laden as "terror mastermind" after his displacement by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Guantanamo prisoner who confessed to being the "mastermind of 9/11″ after being water-boarded 183 times?

Americans are too busy celebrating to think, a capability that seems to have been taken out of their education.

Americans are so enthralled over the death of bin Laden that they do not wonder why information gleamed years ago would take so long to locate a person who was allegedly living in a million-dollar building equipped with all the latest communication equipment next to the Pakistani Military Academy.  Allegedly, the "most wanted criminal" was not moving from hide-out to hide-out in desolate mountains, but ensconced in luxury quarters in broad daylight.  Nevertheless, despite his obvious location, it took the CIA years to find him after claiming to have gained information of his whereabouts out of captives in secret prisons.  This is the image of the CIA as the new Keystone Cops.

In an immediate follow-up to the announcement that the Navy SEALs and CIA mercenaries acted in an exemplary fashion following the rules of engagement while a cowardly bin Laden hid behind a woman shield when the gunfire erupted, we have from the pressitutes that "U.S. officials conceded the risk of renewed attack. The terrorists almost certainly will attempt to avenge bin Laden's death, CIA Director Leon Panetta wrote in a memo. . . .  Within a few hours, the Department of Homeland Security warned that bin Laden's death was likely to provide motivation for attacks from 'homegrown violent extremists'."

John Brennan, White House counter-terrorism adviser, told reporters that "it was inconceivable that the terrorist fugitive didn't have support in Pakistan where his hideout had been custom built six years ago in a city with a heavy military presence."

So the claimed murder of bin Laden by the US in a sovereign foreign country with which the US is not at war, a crime under international law, has set up three more self-serving possibilities:

Terrorists will avenge bin Laden's death, says the CIA, setting up another false flag attack to keep the profits flowing into the military/security complex and the power flowing into the unaccountable CIA.

Homeland Security can extend the domestic police state, abuse of travelers, and arrests of war protestors.

And Pakistan is under the gun of invasion and takeover (for India, of course) for shielding bin Laden.

The Israel Lobby's representatives in the US Congress quickly fell in with the agenda.  Senator Carl Levin, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, declared that the Pakistani Army and intelligence agency "have a lot of questions to answer, given the location, the length of time and the apparent fact that this was actually—this facility was actually built for bin Laden, and its closeness to the central location of the Pakistani army."

The two reporters question nothing in the government's propaganda. Instead, the reporters join in the celebration. Nevertheless they let slip that "officials were weighing the release of at least one photo taken of bin Laden's body as part of what Brennan called an effort to make sure 'nobody has any basis to try and deny the death.'"

As the Guardian and European newspapers have revealed, the photo of the dead bin Laden is a fake.  As the alleged body has been dumped into the ocean, nothing remains but the word of the US government, which lied about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and al Qaeda connections, about yellowcake, about Iranian nukes, and, according to thousands of experts, about 9/11. Suddenly the government is telling us the truth about bin Laden's death?  If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I'll let you have for a good price.

My initial interpretation of the faked bin Laden death was that Obama needed closure of the Afghan war and occupation in order to deal with the US budget deficit.  Subsequent statements from Obama regime officials suggest that the agenda might be to give Americans a piece of war victory in order to boost their lagging enthusiasm. The military/security complex will become richer and more powerful, and Americans will be rewarded with vicarious pleasure in victory over enemies.


Dr. Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury, associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, a member of the congressional staff, and held academic appointments at Stanford University, Georgetown University, VirginiaTech, Tulane University, George Mason University, and the University of New Mexico. He is the author or coauthor of nine books, numerous articles in scholarly journals, a contributor to many books and to economic dictionaries and encyclopedias. He was awarded the US Treasury's Silver Medal, the French Legion of Honor, and has testified before committees of Congress on 30 occasions. He was Business Week's first outside columnist and was columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service and Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles. Dr. Roberts was educated at Georgia Tech, the University of Virginia, the University of California at Berkeley, and at Oxford University where he was a member of Merton College. His latest book, How The Economy Was Lost, was published by Counterpunch/AK press in 2010. Read more articles by Paul Craig Roberts.

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[ALOCHONA] Serajul Alam Khan In search of a third force



Serajul Alam Khan In search of a third force

The mystery man is at it again, this time envisioning a third political force comprising a federal government, provinces, a new constitution, a two-house parliament and more…

by ANWAR PARVEZ HALIM

The "man-behind-the scenes", Serajul Alam Khan, has something up his sleeve again, apparently, and this time is supposedly hatching plans for a third political force. He envisages a third force in the political arena, a force that stands in lieu of the tried and tested Awami League, BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and Jatiya Party.

Keeping the tenth national parliament elections in view, Serajul Alam Khan's political coterie has been spreading the word nationwide of this latest vision. A total of 14 social organizations have been formed to this end and dialogues are on with various like-minded political parties. Serajul Alam Khan has been spending late nights in discussion with different groups in various localities of the city – Paribagh, Dhanmandi, Bijoynagar and other places.

Supporters of Serajul Alam Khan have called him 'dada' from the sixties. Previously the Sheraton lobby was his familiar haunt, but as the crowds to see him grew in size and the flow of tea dwindled he changed his venue. His main 'hang-out' now is the office of Samajik Rajnoitik Andolan (Social Political Movement), situated on the ground floor of Sakura Market in Paribagh.

One of Serajul Alam Khan's associates informs us that this mystery man wakes at about four or five in the afternoon everyday. He goes to the Paribagh office where he holds meetings till around nine at night. From there he goes on to Oxford International School in Dhanmandi where discussions carry on till deep in the night. Taking part in these midnight addas are politicians, members of the civil society, professionals, retired military officers and others. In this manner, Serajul Alam Khan holds dialogue with about 200 to 250 people on average everyday.

Inspired by Serajul Alam Khan's new philosophy, the organizations which have been emerging in recent times are Samajik Rajnoitik Andolan, Samajik Shakti, Samajik Oikya, Karjakor Sangsad Andolan, Samajik Rajnoitik Jubo Dhara, Mukta Rajnoitik Andolan, Samajik Jubo Andolan, Bangladesh Ainjibi Andolan, Sramajibi Parishad, Peshajibi Parishad, Nari Oikya, Chhatra League (non-partisan) and several other organizations. Most of the leaders and workers of these organizations were originally involved with JSD politics. Serajul Alam Khan's name graces no position in these organizations. Even though he is the main architect of these bodies, as always he remains behind the scenes.

Close sources of Serajul Alam Khan say that already talks have been held with several smaller parties. They have committed themselves to this second stream of politics, though the leaders of these parties are not ready to go public about it for the time being. When the time is right they will emerge on a single platform, says Abdul Malek Ratan, Secretary General of JSD (Rab). He says JSD's 10-point programme is more or less on the lines of Serajul Alam Khan's 14 points. He says that BNP and Awami League lack the political technology required to take the nation ahead. That is why there was no alternative to Serajul Alam Khan's 14 points and the second stream of politics.

Abdul Malek Ratan says that JSD has been holding meetings in the various districts. In these meetings they have been highlighting three main topics – forming seven to nine provinces in the country; having a two-house parliament; and drawing up a new Constitution. These three points are included in Serajul Alam Khan's 14 points.

Professor Humayun Kabir Hiru is the Central Coordinator of the Samajik Rajnoitik Andolan. He has been the General Secretary of ASM Abdur Rab's JSD at one time. Speaking to PROBE, Hiru says, "We basically are spreading the message of Serajul Alam Khan's second stream of politics. We have units all over the country and so far have distributed 10 million leaflets. We are taking the message and vision of Serajul Alam Khan to the DCs, SPs, secretaries, government officials, upazila chairmen and various professionals."

According to Prof. Hiru, "Samajik Rajnoitik Andolan is a political platform." He says that the demand for dividing the country into provinces and having a two-house parliament is a universal one.

Prof. Hiru wholeheartedly agrees with Serajul Alam Khan that the Constitution needs to undergo a complete change. They have organized a seminar in this regard at the Press Club on May 7.

Musharraf Hossain Montu, former JSD Chhatra League leader and presently Member Secretary of Samajik Shakti, is a close associate of Serajul Alam Khan. He says their organization is active in 25 districts of the country and they will shortly apply to the Election Commission for registration as a political party. According to Musharraf Hossain Montu, those who are involved in the politics of BNP or Awami League, play the role of maidservants. One cannot expect them to do anything constructive for the country. It is the politics of Serajul Alam Khan which, on the other hand, holds promise for the future. He says, "We will be successful if we can convey our message to 50% of the people during the next election."

The student front Chhatra League (non-partisan) was formed in 2008 on the lines of Serajul Alam Khan's politics. Kamruzzaman Apu, a student of Computer Science at BIST, is the Convenor of the central committee of this organization. He tells PROBE that they have teams in all of Dhaka's colleges as well as in the universities of Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet and Rajshahi. Each team comprises five members. Apu says, "Basically we spread dada's message among the students."

What dies Serajul Alam Khan actually mean by this second stream of politics?

Looking back, in undivided India even though the Indian National Congress, Muslim League, Jamiyate Ulema League, Communist Party and other parties differed in their ideology, they did have a common point and that was they were formed on the lines of Western political culture and political system. It was thus the British liberal social system that gave rise to the capitalism-based parliamentary democracy as well as the anti-capitalist classical socialism.

The parliamentary stream was headed by the likes of Mahatma Gandhi Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Sardar Patel and Moulana Abul Kalam Azad. And the stream of classical socialism was led by Comrade Muzaffar Ahmed, Jyoti Basu and others.

At the same time a different stream of politics had emerged in this Bengal that reflected the local culture, a revolutionary spirit and a conglomeration of people-oriented activities which were taking outside of the subcontinent at that time. This was the second stream of politics. These were manifest in the Sepoy Mutiny, the Santal Mutiny, the Indigo Mutiny, Haji Shariatullah and Dudu Miah's Farazi Movement, Titumir's movement and so on. In fact, Subhash Bose's Azad Hind Fauj and Sher-e-Bangla's Lahore Declaration were of the second stream politics. And it was to expand this alternative stream that the party JSD was formed in 1972.

The veteran political thinker Serajul Alam Khan feels that the main objective today is to nurture a political growth based on the 14 points in order to develop an enlightened society.

The 14 points of this second stream of politics include a central government based on the federal system, a two-house parliament with the lower house consisting of 300 members and upper house consisting of 200 members, formation of provinces, a government of consensus, upazila-based self-ruled local government, a National Economic Council, a National Security Council, voting rights for expatriate Bangladeshis, establishing Digital Bangladesh, expansion of the micro-credit system and initiating social business.

The 14 points also call for an economic alliance among Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, India's northeastern states, Myanmar's southern region and the Kunming province of China.

Serajul Alam Khan feels that a national unity must be institutionalized on the basis of the state structure and system of government as laid down in the 14 points.

Political analysts do not dismiss the possible entrance of a third force, given the existing political circumstances of today. However, it is difficult to say when, and under whose leadership, this force will emerge. Serajul Alam Khan's followers are confident that whichever power comes to the helm as an alternative to BNP and Awami League, will have to take this second stream into cognizance if it is to be successful.

They feel that already much support has been drummed up for Serajul Alam Khan's political vision. Support has been lent by ASM Abdur Rab, Abdul Kader Siddiqui, Dr. Yunus Somman Rakkhya Committee (Committee Defending Dr. Yunus' Honour), Sujan and other organizations as well as individuals. Barrister Rafiqul Huq recently deliberated about the two-house parliamentary system at a programme in the Press Club. Oli Ahmed brought up the same topic at a meeting in Chittagong recently. Ershad's Jatiya Party continues to be vocal about the upazila system and formation of provinces. Other than that, several reformists of BNP and Awami League have been keeping in touch with Mr. Khan.

An associate of Serajul Alam Khan tells PROBE that Kalyan Party, Prof.  Shahida Obaid, Forward Party and other smaller parties and forums are likely to unite on one platform at the behest of Serajul Alam Khan. However, Maj. Gen. Syed Muhammed Ibrahim (retd) tells PROBE that till date Kalyan Party has not had any discussion with Serajul Alam Khan in this regard. Similarly, Shahida Obaid and Forward Party's ABM Mustafa Amin also tell PROBE that they have had no discussion about a second stream of politics with Serajul Alam Khan so far. They say they have no desire to join this second stream.

Investigations reveal that those attached to this trend of Serajul Alam Khan's politics are mostly former JSD persons, or even presently involved in JSD politics. They are not very well known entities. That is why political analysts are questions whether these persons have the ability, the skills, the popularity and charisma required to ensure people's support for dada's emergent third force.

Swaroop Hasan Shaheen, President of Mukta Rajnoitik Andolan, says, "We believe in Serajul Alam Khan's vision and do not feel there is any need for haste. If you delve a bit deeper, you will see as it is people are fed up with the politics of BNP and Awami League. They just need some inspiration. We are working on this silently. Our politics had an ideology. We are not here to grab power. We want a change of the existing system and that calls for this second stream of politics."

In response to contacting Serajul Alam Khan over the telephone, he directly rejects such calls, saying he is unwilling to speak to the media.

 

The 14 points of this second stream of politics include

  • central government based on the federal system,
  •  two-house parliament with the lower house consisting of 300 members and upper house consisting of 200 members,
  • formation of provinces,
  • government of consensus,
  • upazila-based self-ruled local government,
  • National Economic Council,
  • National Security Council,
  • voting rights for expatriate Bangladeshis,
  • establishing Digital Bangladesh,
  • expansion of the micro-credit system and initiating social business.

Parvez1966@yahoo.com

http://www.probenewsmagazine.com/index.php?index=2&contentId=7068

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[ALOCHONA] Truth behind 9/11: Who Is Osama Bin Laden?



The Truth behind 9/11: Who Is Osama Bin Laden?

At 11am, on the morning of 9/11, the Bush administration had announced that Osama was behind the attacks.

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[ALOCHONA] CG system illegal: SC



CG system illegal: SC  

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declared illegal the constitutional provision for the caretaker government system.It however said that the tenth and eleventh parliamentary elections may be held under the caretaker government in order to avoid any chaos.

he court observed that the parliament can take steps to amend the law under which the chief justice or any other judges of the Appellate Division are not involved in the government.

The seven-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque passed the judgement after granting an appeal against the High Court judgment that declared valid the thirteenth amendment to the constitution for parliamentary elections under a caretaker government.

The Appellate Division in the order said the thirteenth amendment through the Constitution Amendment Act 1996 is prospectively declared void and ultra-vires.

The apex court said the election of the tenth and eleventh parliament may be held under the provision of the thirteenth amendment to the constitution.

Meanwhile, the parliament may amend the constitution excluding the provision of making the former chief justice of Bangladesh and judges of the Appellate Division as the head of the non-party caretaker government, the order said. Earlier, this court heard opinions and arguments from eight amici curiae (friends of court) and the counsels for both sides of the appeal for 10 days.

On January 25, 2000, M Salimullah, the then general secretary of Association for Democratic and Constitutional Advancement of Bangladesh (ADCAB), had filed the writ petition as public interest litigation challenging the amendment.

Following the writ petition, the HC on August 4, 2004 had declared 13th amendment to the constitution legal, and observed that the change did not distort the basic structure of the charter.Abdul Mannan Khan, acting general secretary of ADCAB, filed the appeal with the SC against the HC verdict after Salimullah's death.
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[ALOCHONA] Obama Kills Top US Terrorist Asset Osama



Obama Kills Top US Terrorist Asset Osama

By Dr Gideon Polya

US President Obama has blocked 9-11 truth by the   extra-judicial murder of  Al-Qaeda leader and US-alleged 9-11 mastermind Osama bin Laden who was America's most valuable terrorist asset  over the last 30 years by  (a) assisting the US-backed defeat of the Russians in Afghanistan (and  thence the dismemberment of the Soviet Empire) and (b) by killing hundreds of Westerners in terrorist atrocities, thus providing the anti-terrorism justification for the post-Cold War explosion of US state terrorism in the Muslim world (bombings, invasions, occupations and 11 million Muslim dead since 1990 in US-attacked countries. Scientific evidence says that the   US rather than man-in-a-cave Osama did 9-11 but Osama was used by the actual perpetrators as an endless war-justifying bogeyman like Emmanuel Goldstein in George Orwell's novel "1984". As outlined below, the lying, terror hysteria narrative of the genocidal  US Alliance and the racist Zionists (RZs) must be urgently exposed before it transmutes to an even more insidious variant.

1. Osama bin Laden as a US-backed terrorist (1979-1989).

Osama bin Laden headed al-Qaeda in the ultimately successful US- and Pakistani ISI-backed  war against the  Russians (1979-1989). Russian defeat in Afghanistan contributed to the fall of Communism, the dismemberment of the Soviet Empire and massive extension of US power and influence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia . (see "Al-Qaeda": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda ).

2. Post-Cold War  and pre-9-11 terrorism by Osama bin Laden (29 US dead).

For all his fearsome reputation and iconic demonization by Western media, Osama bin Laden was a relatively ineffective terrorist. The FBI put him on its Most Wanted List for the 1998 atrocities committed by al-Qaeda in East Africa against US embassies (300 killed, mostly locals and including 12 Americans) (see "1998 United States Embassy bombings": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_United_States_embassy_bombings ) and the 12 October 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen (17 US servicemen killed) and not for involvement  in the attacks on the World Trade Center in 1993 (6 killed) and 2001. Ramzi Yousef, a convicted  perpetrator of the 1993 bombing of the WTC, apparently had no connection with Al Qaeda.   Thus the  FBI put Osama bin Laden on its Most Wanted List saying on its Bin Laden web page that Usama (Osama) Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998 bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya but did not mention the WTC while adding that "In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorists attacks throughout the world. ." According to the 9/11 Commission, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ( Ramzi Yousef's uncle and alleged to be  involved in 9-11 but yet to be tried despite years of imprisonment and torture) said under interrogation (torture) that "[Ramzi] Yousef  was not a member of al Qaeda and that Yousef never met Bin Laden".  Osama bin Laden has denied knowing Ramzi Yousef (see "Ramzi Yousef", Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramzi_Yousef ).

3. Pre-9-11 Apartheid Israel killed more Americans  (34) than Al-Qaeda (29).

Apartheid Israel killed 34 Americans in its attack on the USS Liberty in 1997 (34 US servicemen killed and 179 wounded; see "USS Liberty incident", Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident ) as compared to 29 Americans killed by al-Qaeda pre-2001. None of  the Israeli terrorist killers of Americans have been brought to justice. Indeed the US   came to an agreement with Apartheid Israeli to settle the matter and proceeded  with massive diplomatic, military and nuclear support for nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel . In contrast the US under Clinton bombed Afghanistan and Sudan with cruise missiles in 1998 in retaliation for the al-Qaeda attacks on Americans. It has been estimated that tens of thousands of  people died because they were deprived of medicine manufactured by the Sudanese Al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant bombed by the US on 20 August 1998 in retaliation for the 7 August 1998 al-Qaeda attacks on East Africa US embassies (see "Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory", Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shifa_pharmaceutical_factory ).

4. US retaliation for 1998 al-Qaeda US embassy attacks (12 US dead) passively killed tens of thousands of Sudanese.

Eminent Jewish American scholar Professor Noam, Chomsky quoted "Jonathan Belke, regional program manger for the Near East Foundation, who writes on the basis of field experience in Sudan … According  to credible analyses readily available to us, then,  proportional to population [current Sudan population 42 million, current US population 314 million] the destruction of the Al-Shifa [pharmaceutical plant] is as if the bin Laden network, in a single attack on the U.S. had caused "hundreds of thousands of people – many of them children – to suffer and die from easily treatable diseases"'". Similarly, Professor Chomsky has quoted the German Ambassador to Sudan thus: "Germany's ambassador to Sudan writes that "It is difficult to assess how many people in this poor African country died as a consequence of the destruction of the Al-Shifa factory, but tens of thousands seems a reasonable guess"" (see Noam Chomsky, "September 11", Allen and Unwin, 2001, pp45-52).

5. "Enemy civilian/US citizen" death ratio 2,000 (US in Sudan, 1998) versus "Enemy civilian/German soldier" death ratio 12 (Nazi Germany in Italy, 1944).

In response to murder, including mass murder, the correct response is identification, arraignment, trial and punishment of the perpetrators, noting that establishing the facts of an atrocity is crucially important fro minimizing the chance of recurrence. However the Anglo-Americans have historically conducted themselves otherwise by vastly disproportionate violence against "enemy civilians" as exampled by the horrendous North American Indian Genocide associated with the  Anglo-American invasion of North America and the estimated 10 million British India Indians butchered by the British post-1857 in response to the Indian Rebellion ("Indian Mutiny") in which about 2,000 British died (death ratio 10,000,000/2,000 = 5,000. In contrast, in 1944  in response to Italian partisans killing 28 German soldiers in a Rome bomb attack on 23 March, Adolph Hitler ordered the execution of 10 Italians for every dead German soldier. The order was immediately carried out the next day, 24 March 1944, with the  execution of 335 Italian men and boys in the Ardeatine Caves Massacre (see "Ardeatine Massacre", Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardeatine_massacre ).  The "enemy civilian/US citizen" death ratio is estimated to be about 20,000-30,000/12 =  about 2,000 for US reprisals in Sudan in 1998 as compared  to an  "Enemy civilian/German soldier" death ratio of 335/28 = 12 in the Nazi German Ardeatine Caves Massacre in Rome, Italy, March 1944.

6. Current evidence compels the view that the US did  9-11 with likely Israeli involvement.

After  the 9-11 atrocity (about 3,000 people killed , including the 19 alleged hijackers), the US Administration immediately blamed al-Qaeda rather than Apartheid Israel (a major beneficiary of the atrocity) and proceeded to egregiously lie, destroy key evidence and sabotage proper judicial investigation.  Many sensible people were sceptical of the lying Bush "official version" of 9-11 and of numerous flaws in the Bush story. The  major  science-based concerns remain  (a) compelling video, eye-witness, physics and chemical physics evidence for explosive demolition of the Twin Towers and Building 7 of the World Trade Center (WTC), (b) the unbelievable alleged landing of a passenger jet on a dime at the ground floor of the Pentagon by trainee light aircraft pilots that is also simply contrary to numerous eye-witness accounts, and (c) sustained US Administration lying and cover-up.

The 3 major hypotheses about 9-11 are (1) the lying Bush version that al-Qaeda did it, (2) al-Qaeda (or whoever) was involved but the US Government was lying and permitted it to happen (as it permitted Pearl Harbor to happen), and (3) the US Government was directly involved (with or without assistance from others, notably Apartheid Israel ). Hypothesis  #1 is adhered to by the overwhelmingly pro-war, pro-Zionist Mainstream media and by the egregiously dishonest Obama Administration following the Bush Administration that told 935  lies in the 2 years following 9-11 (see "False pretenses, Center for Public Integrity, http://projects.publicintegrity.org/WarCard/ ". Hypothesis #2 has wide support. Thus about 90% of Germans and 50% of Americans don't believe the US Government "official version"  (see http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/nearly-90-percent-of-germans-do-not-believe-official-911-fairy-tale/ ). Thus outstanding journalist John Pilger on 9-11: "I think there is a lot of evidence that certain elements in the Bush administration, whether by intent or by their own arrogant incompetence, I don't know, let things happen. I think there is enough evidence to…We know the senior FBI people who gave warnings right throughout 2001. We know about the extraordinary inactivity by the NORAD aircraft on the day of September 11th. We know that Cheney was in charge of the White House on that day. I think the most plausible is the "let it happen", now at what stage it was let happen, I don't know, I don't know. But certainly that seems to me, the most plausible. There is no doubt that 9/11 became the opportunity for a new "Cold War" basically, only called the "War on Terror". But beyond that I wouldn't want to…" (see: 9/11 Truth News, 10 October 201: http://911truthnews.com/journalist-and-filmmaker-john-pilger-on-911/ ).

Numerous science, engineering, architecture, military and intelligence experts say that the US did 9-11 (for a detailed compendium of such expert views see "Experts; US did 9-11": http://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/home ). Key lines of evidence are  the perfect, almost free-fall collapse of the 3 WTC buildings with all their  concrete turning to dust in circa 10 seconds; the analysis of numerous  eye-witness testimonies that make it impossible for a passenger jet  to have hit the Pentagon as alleged by the Bush Administration; and, most damning, the

identification of unexploded nanothermite high explosive in all samples of the WTC dust examined by Professor Niels Harrit and colleagues, Chemistry Department, University of Copenhagen (and published in a peer-reviewed chemical physics journal: http://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/harrit-niels ).

Various experts have variously speculated that Apartheid Israel was involved in the 9-11 atrocity, specifically UK Middle East experts Dr Elias Akleh (US) and Alan Hart (UK),  former Italian president Professor Francesco Cossiga and former US Marine and war college professor Dr Alan Sabrowsky (see "Experts: US did 9-11": http://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/home ). Certainly Means, Opportunity and Motive plus hard evidence for Mossad involvement point to Israeli involvement with the US in the 9-11 atrocity. A key argument is that anti-Arab anti-Semitic, Islamophobic and genocidal Apartheid Israel has benefited enormously from the 9-11 atrocity whereas al-Qaeda has suffered devastating losses and the Muslim world has suffered about 9 million prematurely dead. Al-Qaeda must have been aware of the historical disproportionate retaliatory violence against non-Europeans and against Muslims in particular by the egregiously racist, violent and genocidal Anglo-Americans (e.g. see 5 above). For a summary of the alleged involvement of over 100 mainly US Zionists and pro-Zionists in the 9-11 atrocity see "9-11 – who really did it?": http://www.whodidit.org/cocon.html ).

Basic "cause and effect" considerations indicate that if al-Qaeda was indeed responsible for 9-11 as asserted by the egregiously lying, racist, violent and genocidal US Administration then Osama bin Laden must be burdened with responsibility not just for the 29 Americans killed pre-9-11 and  the 3,000 people killed on 9-11 (mostly Americans) but also,  dwarfing these atrocities, the 9 million Muslims and 1 million opiate drug-users  murdered by the Anglo-Americans since 9-11 (for details see below).  Whether Osama bin Laden was involved in the 9-11 atrocity or not, he certainly has been the most useful asset for US and Israeli terrorism and imperialism for decades.

7. About  9 million Muslims and 1 million opiate drug users have been killed by the US Alliance since 9-11.

The nuclear devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the saturation bombing of German and Japanese cities in WW2 set the stage for similar horrific post-war US war crimes against civilians (see 5 above). Most victims of high technology US wars against impoverished countries are civilians, these being typically about 50% children and 75%  women and children. A measure of this carnage can be obtained from analysis of UN Population Division data  to determine avoidable deaths (avoidable mortality, excess mortality, excess deaths, deaths that did not have to happen ) in victim countries in US wars. Thus it has been estimated that 1950-2005 excess deaths in countries – excluding Germany and Japan - occupied by the US in the post-1945 era total 82 million, the corresponding  values being  727 million (UK), 142 million (France) and 24 million (Apartheid Israel) (see my book "Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950": http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ).

Somalia has been variously invaded and partly occupied by the US and thence by US-backed UN forces (December 1992- May 1995) or US surrogate forces (in the period 2006-2011) and it remains substantially occupied by US-backed foreign forces. Post-invasion excess deaths in this 18.5 year period (December 1992 – May 2011) can be crudely assessed  from infant mortality data to be about 1.8 million. Excess deaths from deprivation are 1.4 times under-5 infant deaths,  69,000 under-5 year old Somali infants die each year (UNICEF) and hence on this basis total excess deaths in the post-9-11 era total 920,000. It is difficult to assess the number of post-9-11 violent deaths but comparisons with Occupied Afghanistan would suggest 0.29 million, this yielding an estimate of post-9-11 violent deaths plus avoidable deaths due to deprivation totalling 1.2 million. Somali refugees inside and outside the country total 2.1 million (UNHCR).

The US Alliance invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 after rejecting the Taliban Afghan Government's offer to hand Osama bin Laden to a Third Country for proper investigation into involvement in the 9-11 atrocity. It must be noted that according to the lying Bush :"official version" of 9-11, no Afghans nor indeed any Iraqis, were involved in the 9-11 atrocity. Post-invasion excess deaths from war-imposed deprivation in Occupied Afghanistan total 3.8 million (UN Population Division data), noting that in Occupied Afghanistan, Occupied Somalia and Occupied Iraq the US Alliance has grossly violated Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War that both unequivocally state that an Occupier must prevent Subject deaths by supplying life-sustaining food and medical requisites "to the fullest extent of the means available to it". Based on comparison with the 4-times more violent Iraq War, violent deaths total about 1.2 million. The post-invasion under-5 infant deaths are a horrifying 2.7 million (90% avoidable and due to US war crimes) and refugees total 3-4 million (plus a further 2.5 million Pashtun refugees generated by Obama-instigated war in NW Pakistan (see "Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide": http://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/ ).

After nearly 13 years of deadly Sanctions (1.7 million Iraqi excess deaths from deprivation, 0.2 million Iraqi violent deaths in the Gulf War, and 1.2 million under-5 Iraqi infant deaths), and after the Bush Administration telling 935 lies in the 2 years after 9-11, most notably about the existence of actually non-existent Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction, the US Alliance (initially the US, UK and Apartheid Israel-supporting Apartheid Australia)  invaded Iraq. Post-invasion  killings in Iraq total 1.5 million (US Just Foreign Policy: http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/156 ),  under-5 infant deaths total 0.8 million (UN Population Division) and 5-6 million Iraqi refugees have been generated (see "Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide": http://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/  and "Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide": http://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ) .  

While "holocaust" describes the death of a huge number of people,  genocide is defined by the Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention thus: " "In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group" . "Intent" is rarely confessed by mass murderers, and indeed the genocidal, politically correct racist (PC racist) US Alliance members invariably claim that they are bringing "freedom and democracy" to their victims. However "intent" can be established through remorseless, sustained action (as, for example, the "intent" of a serial killer). The US Alliance is responsible for a post-9-11 Somali Holocaust, Somali Genocide, Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide,  Afghan Holocaust and Afghan Genocide with genocide in these instances as defined by the UN Genocide Convention.

About 250,000 people die from illicit drug use each year of whom 125,000 die from opiate drugs. The Taliban Afghan Government banned the Afghan opium industry in 2000 and Afghan opium production dropped to 6% of world market share by 2001. The 2001 US invasion resulted in restoration of the Afghan opium industry to 76 % of world market share by 2002 and to 94% by 2008 (UN ODC). It is estimated that 0.9 x .125 million per year x 9.5 years = 1.1 million people (including about 100,000 Americans and 3,000 Australians) have died opiate drug-related deaths since 2001 due to the US Alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry.

8. "Indigenous/ US Alliance military" death ratios in the post-9-11 US War on Terror.

The US became militarily involved in Somalia when it invaded in 1992 but in the post-9-11 era it has avoided military deaths by bombing and shelling Somalia from the air and from the sea, respectively. Accordingly, the post-9-11 "Indigenous/US military" death ratio for Somalia has been 1.2 million/ 0 = infinity. Compilations of US and US Alliance casualties make it possible to determine post-9-11 "Indigenous/ US military" and "Indigenous/ US Alliance military" death ratios for the Afghan War and the Iraq war.  

In the post-9-11 period the "Indigenous/ US military" death ratio in Afghanistan has been 5.0 million/ 1,572 = 3,180 and the  Indigenous/ US Alliance military" death ratio has been 5.0 million/ 2,445 =  2,045.

In the post-9-11 period the "Indigenous/ US military" death ratio in Iraq has been 2.7 million/ 4,452 = 606  and the  Indigenous/ US Alliance military" death ratio has been 2.7 million/ 4,770 =  566.

The overall "Indigenous/ US military" death ratio in the US Alliance War on Terror has so far been approximately 9 million/ 6,000 = 1,500,  as compared to the "Indigenous/ invading military" death ratio of 10 ordered by Nazi German leader Adolph Hitler in March 1944.

9. Obama's extra-judicial murder of Osama bin Laden , America 's most valuable terrorist asset.

Prior to 9-11, al-Qaeda under Osama bin Laden had killed  fewer Americans (29) than Apartheid Israeli state terrorists (34). However Osama served an invaluable role for the neocon Anglo-Americans and the racist Zionists as a bogeyman akin to Emmanuel Goldstein in George Orwell's "1984". Al-Qaeda terrorism, while astonishingly ineffective compared to US, UK or Apartheid Israeli terrorism,  was the invaluable basis of US, UK, Apartheid Israeli and general Western anti-Arab anti-Semitism, Islamophobia,  terror hysteria, warmongering and genocidal war-making. While the scientific evidence points squarely to US involvement in 9-11, this atrocity was readily attributed to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden by the egregiously dishonest Bush and Obama Administrations and by pro-Zionist, pro-US Western media. This circus has reached new depths with the Mainstream Media (MSM) now faithfully reporting US concerns that the Pakistani Government,  military and intelligence had been well aware for years of the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, yet unreported is the Elephant-in-the-room reality that this same person has been America's most valuable terrorist asset for the last 30 years.

The terror hysteria surrounding  Osama bin Laden has also permitted his extra-judicial execution by President Obama (if indeed the person executed was indeed Osama, the Americans having conveniently disposed of the body at sea).  The Bush Administration  rapidly disposed of the 9-11WTC steel as scrap to Asia (thus eliminating key forensic evidence as to how 3 WTC buildings were demolished in a facsimile of expert explosive demolition); set up a phony 9-11 investigation; and rejected the offer of extradition of Osama bin Laden to a Third country for interrogation. Now Obama has similarly destroyed key evidence in relation to what happened on 9-11 by murdering a key witness. Indeed whoever did 9-11, the extra-judicial murder of a key witness, Osama bin Laden, makes President Obama an accessory after the fact of 9-11. The key point of any judicial process is not just  punishing the alleged transgressors but critically  determining the facts of the matter to minimize the probability of recurrence (rational risk management).

In summary, Osama bin Laden has been America 's most valuable terrorist "asset" for 30 years, fuelling the terror hysteria-based US War on Terror and enabling a racist, pro-Zionist, violent and genocidal neocon America to variously bomb, invade, occupy and devastate Muslim countries from Libya to Pakistan . The US was almost certainly involved in the 9-11 atrocity but Osama bin Laden was made the equivalent of bogeyman Emmanuel Goldstein in Orwell's novel "1984" by successive US administrations with the help of pro-war, pro-Zionist Mainstream media. Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden were responsible for the killing of at most several thousand Westerners if one assumes their unlikely complicity in the 9/11 atrocity. Osama bin Laden was America 's chief terrorist asset and helped enable the US Alliance to kill 9 million Muslims since 9-11 as well as causing the deaths of over 1 million people world-wide from opiate drug-related causes due to US Alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry.  The demonization of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda by the Mainstream media and politicians has enabled a vastly more deadly UK , US and Apartheid Israeli terrorism to flourish coupled with overwhelming Mainstream  media censorship of the Awful Truth. Hugely disproportionate but predictable,  murderous,   civilian targeting  Western responses  to terrorist atrocities by al-Qaeda mean that Osama bin Laden must bear a major responsibility for the Western murder of 11 million Muslims in the period 1990-2011. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity – please tell everyone you can.

Dr Gideon Polya currently teaches science students at a major Australian university. He published some 130 works in a 5 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London , 2003). He has recently published "Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950" (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ); see also his contributions "Australian complicity in Iraq mass mortality" in "Lies, Deep Fries & Statistics" (edited by Robyn Williams, ABC Books, Sydney, 2007): http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s1445960.htm ) and "Ongoing Palestinian Genocide" in "The Plight of the Palestinians (edited by William Cook, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010: http://mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/4047-the-plight-of-the-palestinians.html ). He has just published a revised and updated 2008 version of his 1998 book "Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History" (see: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ ) as biofuel-, globalization- and climate-driven global food price increases threaten a greater famine catastrophe than the man-made famine in British-ruled India that killed 6-7 million Indians in the "forgotten" World War 2 Bengal Famine (see recent BBC broadcast involving Dr Polya, Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen and others: http://www.open2.net/thingsweforgot/ bengalfamine_programme.html ). When words fail one can say it in pictures - for images of Gideon Polya's huge paintings for the Planet, Peace, Mother and Child see: http://sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/gideonpolya/ .



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