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paul.carline

24 August 2007 - 8:42am

I've just read the (republished) article by Neal Ascherson on pre-emption - essentially a review of Alan Dershowitz's book "Pre-Emption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways". An otherwise excellent commentary is marred by one major and fatal flaw - the failure to recognise or accept that the "war on terror" is not a response to any genuine external attack or threat (from Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda or 'Islamic fundamentalists' in general), but actually the logical and pre-planned follow-up to what was itself a pre-emptive strike: the internally organised attacks of 9/11. Any analysis which omits the reality of state-sponsored 'false-flag' terrorism - routinely used by 'Western' governments and their agencies since the 1960s (especially in Europe) - cannot hope to do justice to either its political or moral consequences. Though in one sense the attacks of 9/11, 7/7 and elsewhere (Madrid, Bali etc.) are merely part of a continuum of state-sponsored violence for political ends, in another sense they do represent something new - in their scale and in the sophisticated coordination of the acts themselves, the media coverage and the subsequent cover-ups. 9/11 was nothing if not a spectacular - and spectacularly well-coordinated - televisual event, with evidence of almost certain complicity on the part of major media networks (including the BBC) in the staging and/or the cover-up. Until the lies of 9/11 and the other false-flag events are exposed, we cannot hope to restore democracy and morality to our political life. One of those who has done most - and most professionally - to expose the mythology of false-flag or 'synthetic' terrorism is Webster Tarpley, author of what is without doubt the best book on the subject: "9/11: Synthetic Terror. Made in USA". Tarpley is making a speaking tour of the UK this November. He should not be missed.