By:
Jamal Kanj*
September
5, 2011
Like many, I remember
vividly the morning of September 11, 2001. I was in Pennsylvania participating
in a conference for the American Public Works Association at Philadelphia’s
Convention Centre. Walking into the conference hall just around 9 am, I
couldn’t help but noticing a large group of likewise professionals congregating
around a wall mounted TV screen watching a live news break.
The
news was reporting on a plane crashing into a New York tower. I didn’t think
much of it at first. Minutes later as another passenger plane hit a second
tower I realized the incident was far more serious. A third plane followed
crashing at the Pentagon in Washington and a fourth in the fields of
Pennsylvania.
Today,
ten years later, the US and people around the world, more importantly next of
kin families, remember the life of more than 3,000 innocent victims who lost
their life in that bestial act. This year we must also honor the memories of
the more than 650,000 innocent Iraqis who lost their life for being “good
targets” to avenge the victims of 9/11.
In his
book Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror, former White
House counter-terrorism advisor Richard Clarke, wrote
that on September 12, US Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld “was saying that we
needed to bomb Iraq ." "And we all said ... no, no. Al-Qaeda is
in Afghanistan . We need to bomb Afghanistan.” And Rumsfeld said “there aren't
any good targets in Afghanistan. And there are lots of good targets in Iraq . I
said, 'Well, there are lots of good targets in lots of places, but Iraq had
nothing to do with it.”
As for
the President, Clarke wrote "But, M r. President [Bush], al Qaeda did
this." "I know, I know, but - see if Saddam was involved. Just look.
I want to know any shred . . ."
Bush
and Rumsfeld’s military IQ must be a match to the leaders of Al Qaida. For the
Twin Towers in New York were too chosen for being “good targets” with equal
disregard to human life.
Unfortunately
ten years later, 9/11 has turned to symbolize a monument of irrational hate
propagated by a Neo Conservative political agendum intended to perpetuate
collective anti Muslim sentiment in the US, rather than taking a coherent
inward look to learn from those tragic events and the unjust debauchery wars
that followed.
Israel’s men in Washington started instigating the Iraqi invasion long before
9/11. For instance, Paul D. Wolfowitz co-authored an article in the Weekly
Standards advocating a military attack against Iraq four years prior to 9/11.
Paul D. Wolfowitz, who served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense during the
Iraq war, was dual Israeli citizen who worked closely with various Israeli governments.
Paul
Wolfowitz was even more audacious when he revealed in an interview published in
Vanity Fair on M ay 28, 2003 that “For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on
one issue, weapons of mass destruction, [as justification for invading Iraq ]
because it was the one reason everyone could agree on.”
This
year’s 9/11 remembrance should also be a tribute to the life of more than 4000
American soldiers who in the words of Richard Clarke “went to their death in
Iraq thinking that they were avenging September 11th, when Iraq had nothing to
do with September 11th.”
Putting
emotions and national pride aside, America must take a constructive critical
look into the events following 9/11 and its misguided foreign policy in the Middle
East by trying to answer these questions:
Why was
America’s target derailed from fighting the purported perpetrators of 9/11? Who
has gained the most out of these wars? Who has a first class “Sayanin”
(Zionist citizens in host nations) spying network capable of instigating these
wars? Who has the interest in a perpetuating conflict between the West and Muslims?
The only answer for all these questions: Israel.
*Jamal Kanj writes frequently
on Arab World issues and the
author of “Children of Catastrophe,
Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America”, Garnet Publishing,
UK . Jamal’s articles can be read at www.jamalkanj.com, his email address is jkanj@yahoo.com
