From: "John Thomson"
Subject: [marxist] WHO  CARRIED  OUT  THE  ATTACK? - socparty text


WHO  CARRIED  OUT  THE  ATTACK?

The attacks on the US leave many questions unresolved. What
will the final death toll be? Who carried out the attack and
what will be the US response?  Why was the attack carried
out? Any answers at the moment are purely speculative.

Osama bin Laden is widely believed to be behind the terror
attacks. He is a billionaire Islamic fundamentalist, former
US ally and protégé, who fronts a terrorist organisation
whose fighters were trained and financed by the CIA during
the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Following the car bomb
attack at the World Trade Centre eight years ago, four of
those arrested and charged with the attack were found to be
amongst those trained by the US (Robert Fox, New York's
regional FBI director revealed this in a TV interview in
1993). When the US attacked bin Laden's bases near the
village of Khost in Afghanistan (along with the Sudanese
pharmaceutical factory) following attacks on US embassies in
Africa, they could do so with pin point accuracy for the CIA
had planned and designed them.

US Surveillance was well aware of bin Laden's absence prior
to the attack and it seems they purposely chose not to
target him because a dead bin Laden would dangerously
enhance his legendary charisma amongst the Islamic
fundamentalists he inspires, his death inciting his
followers to more crazed acts of vengeance - the logic that
has informed the US decision not to assassinate Saddam
Hussein (one described as the world's no. 1 mad man).

The US is now reaping the bitter harvest of its foreign
policy, which used Islamic fundamentalism as a puppet in its
perennial game of globo-political-profit making. For years
it courted some of the most dangerous, conservative and
fanatical followers of Islam and is now paying the price.

John
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