Conspiracy? Or something more sinister

[andrewducker]

This is fascinating. A bunch of facts that could be considered the basis for conspiracy if you added them up. Of course you'd have to be paranoid. Or would you?

That Jonathan Bush’s Riggs Bank has been found guilty of laundering terrorist funds and fined a US-record $25 million must embarrass his nephew George, but it's still no justification for leaping to paranoid conclusions.

That George Bush's brother Marvin sat on the board of the Kuwaiti-owned company which provided electronic security to the World Trade Centre, Dulles Airport and United Airlines means nothing more than you must admit those Bush boys have done alright for themselves.

That George Bush found success as a businessman only after the investment of Osama’s brother Salem and reputed al Qaeda financier Khalid bin Mahfouz is just one of those things - one of those crazy things.

That Osama bin Laden is known to have been an asset of US foreign policy in no way implies he still is.

That al Qaeda was active in the Balkan conflict, fighting on the same side as the US as recently as 1999, while the US protected its cells, is merely one of history's little aberrations.

The claims of Michael Springman, State Department veteran of the Jeddah visa bureau, that the CIA ran the office and issued visas to al Qaeda members so they could receive training in the United States, sound like the sour grapes of someone who was fired for making such wild accusations.

That one of George Bush's first acts as President, in January 2001, was to end the two-year deployment of attack submarines which were positioned within striking distance of al Qaeda's Afghanistan camps, even as the group's guilt for the Cole bombing was established, proves that a transition from one administration to the next is never an easy task.

That so many influential figures in and close to the Bush White House had expressed, just a year before the attacks, the need for a "new Pearl Harbor" before their militarist ambitions could be fulfilled, demonstrates nothing more than the accidental virtue of being in the right place at the right time.

That the company PTECH, founded by a Saudi financier placed on America’s Terrorist Watch List in October 2001, had access to the FAA’s entire computer system for two years before the 9/11 attack, means he must not have been such a threat after all.

It goes on...

Comments

[avatar.livejournal.com]

I don't think you linked that to the right URL.

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Yes - very fascinating. Though I do wonder how you get from a modern version of the dance of the seven veils to the above conspiracy list. ;-)

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

When I lived in Thailand, sometimes I would pretend to be Canadian or basically anything other than an American. Gratned, I was only 12, so I don't know how convincing it was.

But it made me feel better, especially when all of the Desert Storm troops were parked in Jomtien Bay, wrecking havoc on our little resort town.

Sometimes it really is shameful to be an American. *sigh* I take that back, in order to rephrase it. Sometimes it really sucks to be an American under our current administration. The idea of America is great. The execution of that idea, lately, has not been going so well.

[miramon.livejournal.com]

How about http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/08/coincidence-theorists-guide-to-911.html

[andrewducker]

hat's the link I've got in there. I fixed it about twenty minutes ago :->

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Ah - that makes a bit more sense. (Though the dance of the seven veils was the better read...)

Well, not much sense really, it makes my head spin. Like a Google for "Bush Family History", you're left wondering at what point you should stop giving them the benefit of the doubt.

I'm beginning to think we're all pawns in a very big game played by just a few - till we tip their board over.