{"article":{"id":195552,"heading":"The War On Freedom by Nafeez Ahmed E-book","author":"False Flag","created":"2007-03-22 02:13:12","modified":"2013-11-11 00:47:32","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:47:32","article":"<p>&ldquo;This riveting and thoroughly documented study is a &lsquo;must&rsquo; resource for everyone seeking to understand the attack on the World Trade Center of New York on September 11, 2001 and &lsquo;America&rsquo;s New War&rsquo; since. It connects together over 10 years of relevant covert actions and decisions by top-level U.S. security-state operations, and organises the whole into a coherent and devastating expos&eacute; of the real meaning and construction of the historic turn of &lsquo;the war against terrorism&rsquo; now rewriting laws and constitutions across borders. For those who have seen or filed facts on these matters from web disclosures and scattered revelations of newspapers, this volume provides the detailed documentation in a definitive and masterful record.&rdquo; <br>  <br> Professor John McMurtry, Department of Philosophy, University of Ontario; Fellow at the Royal Society of Canada; Chair of Jurists, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Tribunal at the Alternative World Summit in Toronto, 1989 (Canada) <br><br> &ldquo;The most complete book I know of, summarizing the relevant background and foreground intersecting upon the events of September 11, 2001... A tour de force in every respect: organization, methodology, timeliness, clarity of purpose and of scope, activist commitment to more inquiry, evenness, relative comprehensiveness&hellip; I can&rsquo;t say how much I admire this work. It must be seen by as many people as possible all over the world as soon as possible.&rdquo; <br>  <br> -Barry Zwicker, Producer and Host, MediaFile, Vision TV Insight; award-winning journalist on CBC-TV and CTV (Canada) <br><br> Table of Contents: <br>  <br> Preface 10 <br>  <br> Foreword: a Synopsis 12 <br>  <br> Executive Summary 14 <br>  <br> 1. The Role of the International Community in the Afghan Crisis 19 <br>  <br> Cold War Imperialism....................................................................... 20 <br>  <br> Afghanistan After the Cold War ........................................................ 23 <br>  <br> Northern Alliance Rule 1992-1996..................................................... 24 <br>  <br> The Rise of the Taliban..................................................................... 27 <br>  <br> Humanitarian Catastrophe Under Factional War ................................. 29 <br>  <br> Misogynism Under Taliban Rule ....................................................... 32 <br>  <br> The Distortion of Islam ..................................................................... 34 <br>  <br> 2. The United States, Afghanistan and the Taliban, 1994-2001 41 <br>  <br> Turning a Blind Eye.......................................................................... 41 <br>  <br> America and the Taliban: Dancing with the Devil............................... 44 <br>  <br> U.S. Support of the Taliban ............................................................... 48 <br>  <br> The Decline of the U.S.-Taliban Alliance and U.S. War Plans ............. 54 <br>  <br> 3. Strategic Design Behind U.S. War Plans 68 <br>  <br> Contemplating Central Asia ............................................................... 68 <br>  <br> Strategies for Intervention by the Council on Foreign Relations ........... 73 <br>  <br> The Irrelevance of Bin Laden............................................................ 77 <br>  <br> 4. Warning Signs of 9-11 and Intelligence Failures 81 <br>  <br> Using Planes as Bombs ..................................................................... 81 <br>  <br> Al-Qaeda&rsquo;s Plans: Project Bojinka ..................................................... 82 <br>  <br> Post-Bojinka Intelligence Gathering................................................... 85 <br>  <br> Air Authorities Were Warned of Bojinka............................................ 90 <br>  <br> Intensification of Surveillance After Confirmation of Bojinka Plans .... 92 <br>  <br> High-Level Government Blocks on Intelligence Investigations ......... 106 <br>  <br> Multiple Intelligence Warnings Converged on 11th September ........... 113 <br>  <br> 11th September Warnings Were Not Ignored by U.S. Authorities ....... 124 <br>  <br> The U.S. Intelligence Community .................................................... 126 <br>  <br> 5. The Collapse of Standard Operating Procedures on 9-11 144 <br>  <br> Standard Operating Procedures for Air Emergencies......................... 145 <br>  <br> Flights 175 and 11 .......................................................................... 149 <br>  <br> Flight 77......................................................................................... 153 <br>  <br> Flight 93......................................................................................... 160 <br>  <br> An Overview of the Collapse of SOP on 9-11................................... 160 <br>  <br> Myers and Bush on 9-11: Negligence Points to Complicity............... 164 <br>  <br> 6. American Ties with the Most Wanted Man on Earth 176 <br>  <br> Osama bin Laden and the CIA: Cold War Allies............................... 176 <br>  <br> Osama: Not a Black Sheep.............................................................. 178 <br>  <br> Bush and Bin Laden Family Ties ..................................................... 179 <br>  <br> Osama and the Saudis: a Covert Alliance ......................................... 187 <br>  <br> The U.S.-Saudi Alliance.................................................................. 191 <br>  <br> Osamagate? ................................................................................... 197 <br>  <br> U.S. Protection of Osama ................................................................ 203 <br>  <br> The U.S.-Pakistan Alliance and the ISI ............................................ 214 <br>  <br> 7. The New War: Power and Profit, at Home and Abroad 236 <br>  <br> The Bush Crisis .............................................................................. 236 <br>  <br> Exploiting 9-11............................................................................... 240 <br>  <br> Starving to Death, Waiting to be Killed............................................ 241 <br>  <br> The Air War................................................................................... 248 <br>  <br> Securing Regional U.S. Interests ..................................................... 257 <br>  <br> 9-11: From Crisis to Silver Lining.................................................... 262 <br>  <br> The New American Police State ...................................................... 265 <br>  <br> Imperialism at Home ...................................................................... 275 <br>  <br> 9-11: Who Benefits? ....................................................................... 279 <br>  <br> Conclusions 290 <br>  <br> Appendix A: Excerpts from Hearings on U.S. Interests in the Central <br>  <br> Asian Republics 301 <br>  <br> Appendix B: Excerpts from Hearings on Global Terrorism and South <br>  <br> Asia 312 <br>  <br> Appendix C: Pearl Harbor and Operation Northwoods 322 <br>  <br> Appendix D: Excerpts from Declassified Northwoods Documents 326 <br>  <br> Backword: Where would we be without our Wars? 329 <br>  <br> Cutting up ...................................................................................... 349 <br>  <br> The Smoking Gun........................................................................... 361 <br>  <br> The Pattern of Provocation .............................................................. 363 <br>  <br> Conclusions.................................................................................... 376 <br>  <br> Index 385 <br><br> more ebooks on 9\/11 can be found here: <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiego.indymedia.org\/en\/2006\/10\/119635.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.sandiego.indymedia.org\/en\/2006\/10\/119635.shtml<\/a> <br>  <br> more e-books can be found here: <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/miami.indymedia.org\/news\/2007\/02\/7744.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/miami.indymedia.org\/news\/2007\/02\/7744.php<\/a><\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.sandiego.indymedia.org\/en\/2006\/10\/119635.shtml","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"application\/pdf","summary":"This is an E-Book edition of Nafeez Ahmed's 2002 book, The War On Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked, September 11th 2001","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2007\/03\/the_war_on_freedom_-_ahmed__2002_.pdf","filesize":"1.1 mebibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2007\/03\/195552.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}