The War On Paperclips

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Wed, 18 May 2005 10:39:12 -0700 (PDT)

The War On Paperclips

 

 

 

 

The war on paperclips

 

I worry that I'm turning into a conspiracy theorist

 

AL Kennedy

Wednesday May 11, 2005

The Guardian

 

OK, I'm paranoid and depressed. My new government of troglodytes,

murderers and spivs barely elongates the customary scream I give upon

waking. What troubles me more is our rulers' inevitable recommencement

of the war on terror bollocks.

 

To begin at what we're told is the beginning, we have 9/11 - the one

in the US, not the earlier one in Chile when covert US government

intervention killed thousands of innocents and handed the country to a

commerce-friendly, torture-loving, far-right junta. Now if 9/11/2001

is so important, why is it so hard to find out what happened?

 

The FBI, as we know, blocked all manner of investigations into the

plot in the run up to its execution, whether these involved highly

specific warnings from its own agents or from government sources in

Afghanistan, Argentina, Britain, the Cayman Islands, Egypt, France,

Germany, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Morocco and Russia.

 

Meanwhile, I worry why the nearest military aircraft weren't scrambled

to intercept any of the hijacked flights when this is standard

procedure and why, when more distant jets were finally aloft, they

flew at less than half speed, thus failing to prevent the impacts at

the twin towers and then, it would seem, managing to shoot down Flight

93 when its passengers may already have overcome its hijackers.

 

It would, of course, be easier to know what happened to Flight 93 if

there weren't - according to educated estimates - three minutes of the

cockpit recording missing. It would, equally, be handy to have access

to the black boxes from the other crashes. Firefighters at Ground Zero

have repeatedly stated that three of the four possible black boxes

there were found and taken away by government agents.

 

And these worries are maybe less important than the ones about clear

links between the Pakistani ISI, the CIA and the men named as the 9/11

hijackers. Or the mysterious inability of anyone to capture Osama bin

Laden, who fled from Tora Bora, possibly being evacuated by

helicopter, and then escaped to Pakistan unhindered.

 

So while Chinese paperclips are now made out of vital 9/11 evidence

and almost every implicated party goes free, we and our controlling US

interests continue fearlessly to terrorise countries unconnected with

the attacks, to place permanent military bases near oil reserves and

pipeline routes, to harass and murder Muslims anywhere we can, and to

foment terrorist resistance at every opportunity. The UK unmasks

non-existent ricin plots and threatens us with ID cards, but we can't

supply our troops in Iraq with working radios or a legal causus belli.

 

But you'd never want to think that on 9/11/2001 covert US government

intervention killed thousands of innocents and handed the country, if

not the world, to a commerce-friendly, torture-loving, far-right

junta. That would make you a paranoid, depressed conspiracy theorist.

And, take it from me, that just wouldn't be comfortable.

 

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