In perhaps the most controversial segment of his landmark article,
Chaim Kupferberg argues that, in addition to the "Official" 9/11 Legend,
a number of counter-legends
were built in so as to generate false leads and to take the emphasis away from
the most likely instigators. Plus: An all-new section on former CIA agent
Robert Baer and Daniel Pearl.
The events of September 11 gave birth to three parallel threads -
or counter-legends - pointing the way to the culpability of three
possible foreign suspects, or patsies - namely, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan,
and Israel. Of the three, the Saudis were the patsies of choice
for the mainstream "critics", who were a motley assortment of neo-cons,
FBI investigators, or "retired" national security types opposed to the war
in Iraq. The Pakistan/ISI thread to 9/11 flared up most noticeably in the
events surrounding the death of Daniel Pearl and the alleged involvement
of Omar Saeed Sheikh - events which were used, in fact, to smother the
Pakistani/ISI connection to the 9/11 money trail. As regards Israel,
the most radical opponents of the War On Terror were nursed on the
twin threads of an Israeli spy ring and a neo-con cabal supposedly
at the helm of the Bush Administration.
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