The War on Freedom: How and Why America Was Attacked, September 11th, 2001: How and Why America Was Attacked September 11, 2001 [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

"...Huey Long once said, 'Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism'. I'm afraid, based on my own long experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security."

Nafeez Moseaddeq Ahmed, Preface
and quote from Jim Garrison, New Orleans
District Attorney, 1967, from the Conclusion
THE WAR ON FREEDOM

There are not words to describe the courage it will take anyone, conservative or liberal, left, right or center, to read this book from cover to cover and sit with the new world you will be looking at afterwards. Ahmed, through more than *six hundred* footnotes, political and historical analysis, quotes of everyone from European and Afghani political analysts to New York stockbrokers to American congressman and FBI agents--and some of the most erudite, plain language scholarship I have ever read--irrevocably changes one's view of history and current events such that one is left with the profoundly disturbing fact not by saying that his main theory is true, but by proving unqeustionably that it is POSSIBLE.

This is not an America-hating rant, the likes of which would make it the international antithesis (i.e. siamese twin) of much of the pro-American "literature" coming from the far right nowadays. This is scholarship the likes of which can only demand a paradigm shift in one's thinking, regardless of how you choose to reinterpret his fact-finding when you put the book down. If you've ever wondered what the Catholic bishops must have felt when reading the work of Galileo for the first time, or the Protestant community of the 19th century reading the work of Darwin, or what the Newtonian physics scientific community felt seeing Einstein prove his point about relativity, the scholarship of Ahmed will let you know in perhaps the most politically frightening way possible. Ahmed in fact, does not rely on the rogue scholars we are familiar with for the bulk of his work. He quotes BODY OF SECRETS: INSIDE THE NSA, the work of Gore Vidal like THE GOLDEN AGE, and 9-11 by Noam Chomsky as mere redundancies, adding to the mountain of evidence he has generated leading one to the inevitable conclusion that is the book's theme.

In the end, whether or not you choose to follow Ahmed to the end of his theories, you will be left with a totally new understanding of the secret architecture and raison d'etre of both modern history and modern war. If you didn't know that FDR knew the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor because he set America up to be bombed in 1941 in order to get the isolationist minded American populace to join World War Two--and how he did it--you will learn it here. If you didn't know that there were plans in the military (kept classified until the Freedom of Information Act of 1975) of terrorizing and even killing American citizens in Miami and throughout Florida in such a way that it would look like Castro's military did it to justify an American invasion of Cuba in 1962, you will learn it here. If you didn't know that the total absence of military response to the hijacking of American planes before they hit the World Trade Center on Septemeber 11th is something that has NEVER happened before in FAA or military history, you will learn it here. If you had no idea of the unusual and otherwise inexplicably heavy trade on the stock market that took place days before Septemeber 11th regarding Airline and oil stocks, you will learn it here.

And if you can find a way to digest all of that, plus

1) hundreds of other provable historical/foreign policy facts of the European/American 20th Century from a plethora of credible sources--in and out of America--he brings to light,

2) the political/economic agendas behind the secret psychological architecture of modern day war explained with amazing clarity,

3) the revealing of our current Administration's relationship with International Oil cartels for the past three generations, and

4) the seemingly infinite number of both otherwise inexplicable anamolies AND examples of unprecedented ineptitude regarding both the intelligence community and the military's failure to prevent 9/11 from happening, WITHOUT coming to the same conclusions the writer of this book does...than God bless you.

I cannot.

This is just a little bit bigger than a phony land deal in Arkansas and some oral sex in the Oval Office. Ahmed makes it clear through the WAR ON FREEDOM that it is time for a full investigation of our Administration. If for no other reason as it will be the only thing that could make this nightmare of a book go away. There are some books every American should read to strengthen their own mind or enrich their own lives. This is one book every American needs to read in order to save our Nation's soul. Remain ignorant at the cost of your own freedom.

Because of the gravity of the subject matter I believe the author has done this on purpose, realizing that any intelligent reader, will most likely discriminate between what they perceive to be a truly valid and vital source, and what could possibly be dismissed as speculation, or simply independent observation.

In other words, even if you threw out half of the information, what you would still be left with is an overwhelming amount of credible information and facts, that should at the very least, (assuming you're not brain dead), raise some serious questions in your mind, even if you are the most cynical skeptic.

Many people still believe that the Sept 11th attacks were not preceded by any type of clear and imminent warnings of some type. This is hardly the case and the author does an excellent job in proving this. After watching the 911 Commission hearings that were held recently, the questions and observations posed by some of the panel members confirm this without a doubt.

There is some essential background information on Afghanistan the author takes you though before he gets into the meat of things. This is necessary in order to understand what drives American foreign policy and interests. He then takes you through what our intelligence community knew, and when they knew it.

Chapter 5 is the most damning, as he dissects the complete abandonment of standard operating procedures that were in place that fateful day Sept.11, 2001, and alerts you to a little known fact about the `official version'.

The book also covers our particular brand of "friendship" with the Saudis, the corporate money trail, plus much, much, more...

It took me 2 months to scour through over 150 of the footnotes I thought the most important, and in doing so I came upon much more information than I ever thought I would, stemming from various sources including trade reports, gas and oil investor news, as well a first hand statements mentioned in the book.

And I have to say, that after reading and confirming what this book reveals about the true US/Taliban relationship prior to 9-11, that it is clear without a doubt, that we have an incredibly selfish and self serving foreign relationship policy, in which we will be "friends" with almost anyone as long as it serves our corporate or military interests, regardless of their human rights record. And only after the friendship sours because of lack of cooperation, will we then launch a campaign exposing them if it will serve in promoting support for disciplinary action.

This may not be an easy book for some Americans to read, and I am sure that some will scoff but fail to look any further. But the case is presented before you and the author's work is done. The burden is now on you, the reader, to investigate his sources and footnotes, and determine whether this book is merely biased propaganda, or a compilation worthy of serious consideration, or indeed .. the awful truth.

Some of the troubling points raised which so many find intolerable to confront that they seek to avoid their implications altogether are:

1) The many warnings received by the FBI and other agencies of the U.S. Government, including from Israel's Mossad. While many media sources decried as paranoiac the claim from Arab nations that Israelis stayed away from the World Trade Center on 9-11, it has been documented that the Mossad warned Washington and that a business half-owned by the Mossad terminated its lease before the attack, apparently aware that it was forthcoming based on the same warnings U.S. Government sources spurned.

2) The tremendous profits earned through put options based on huge drops in American and United airline stocks as of September 11. This option windfall was totally unprecedented in Wall Street annals and almost certainly had to be predetermined based on advance knowledge. No other plausible explanation suffices.

3) The report in European sources beginning with Paris newspaper Le Figaro, owned ironically by the controversial Carlyle Group, that the former head of ISI, the Pakistani intelligence agency, provided the lead September 11 skyjacker Atta with $100,000. The former ISI head quietly resigned after 9-11 and nothing has been said about including him and this incident in any foregoing investigation of 9-11.

4) Links between the intelligence establishment and the terrorist skyjackers, as well as the two mysterious flight training schools in Venice, Florida run by Dutch nationals, one of whom received sponsorship support from none other than Catherine Harris.

5) The fact that, contrary to FAA guidelines, the planes which crashed into the Pentagon and in a Pennslyvania field were not scrambled. This routine measure was undertaken in the case of golfer Payne Stewart when his plane encountered difficulties, but not in the case of the post-World Trade Center terrorist destruction. Cheney lied on the record when he reported, "This was the president's call." It is a pro forma call based on FAA regulations.

6) U.S. Government archival evidence that an invasion of Afghanistan had been planned as far in advance of 9-11 as 1997, a point which needs to be carefully explored.

These are some of the points made, and which need to be addressed by an independent investigator. The Bush Administration telegraphed its intentions by selecting initially definitive international dealmaker and Carlyle Group operative Henry Kissinger to head the official government 9-11 investigation. The current chairman, Tom Kean, is a former New Jersey governor with ties to the oil industry.