9/11 Paved the Way for America's Permanent Wars of Aggression
By Finian Cunningham
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26476
Global Research, September 11, 2011
Whether
9/11 was an inside job or an amazing terrorist success, the fact is
that either way the atrocity is intimately linked with US state
terrorism.
The attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001 were a seminal
event that paved the way for permanent wars of aggression by the US and
its puppet allies – wars that have made a travesty of international
law, taking state criminality to new heights and resulting in mass
murder of innocents. That is state terrorism, by any definition, that is
out of control, which no alleged original crime can justify.
In the unlikely second scenario where a bunch of
incompetent Al Qaeda pilots managed to pull off an amazing feat of
flying maneuvers than even seasoned professionals could not (see for
example www.pilotsfor9/11truth.org), the fact is that the alleged jihadi plotters were the product of US state terrorism.
It is well documented that Al
Qaeda/Mujahideen/Jihadis – whatever they are labeled – are the
Frankenstein creation of US and British military intelligence to fight
the proxy war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s.
The 9/11 tragedy – if we see it as such – is thus a
form of blowback where the terrorist dogs of dirty war come back to bite
the hand that feeds them.
Amply documented. however, there is no blowback,
whereby the Al Qaeda "Intelligence Asset" goes against its sponsors.
This patron/client relationship between the US, Britain and so-called
Islamic extremists still endures as can be seen in the unholy alliance
of NATO with the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) to overthrow the
Gaddafi government.
The US, Britain and their dictator clients in Saudi
Arabia and the Arabian Gulf are up to their necks in shadowy Jihadi
terror groups, whether it is in Afghanistan, Iraq or Libya, or more
covertly in trying to destabilise Syria and Iran.
So even if we believe that the US/British/NATO “war
on terror” is genuine – albeit crassly misguided – the fact is that it
would not be occurring if it were not for the state terrorism that
emanates from Washington and London in pursuit of imperialist intrigues.
Sadly, many Americans on this 10th anniversary of
9/11 will see the event as an unwarranted atrocity against their people
and way of life. Unbearable to watch is the mainstream media’s mawkish
mourning and solemnity for victims.
Inexplicable and perplexing to many Americans, from
such vacuous media misinformation, is the diabolical hatred that others
appear to harbour. Where can such deranged hatred come from? Why attack
us when our country is so committed to democratic freedom and human
rights?
Leaving aside that 9/11 may have been an inside job
to facilitate strategic permanent war, even if the official narrative
were true, it still gets down to the US and British playing with fire.
These governments create terrorists, fund terrorists, train terrorists,
use terrorists. Either way, the facts emerge: the US and its ally
puppets have absolutely no regard for democratic freedom, international
law or human rights.
Today, on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, a mass hunger
strike has begun in Bahrain. The date is just a coincidence and
superficially has nothing to do with what happened in New York and
Washington 10 years ago. But at a more profound level, the hunger strike
by Bahraini pro-democracy supporters resonates significantly.
For the past six months, the US/British backed
Bahraini dictatorship has been murdering, maiming, imprisoning and
torturing civilians who have dared to rise up and demand their
democratic rights. In its barbarism, the Bahraini regime has been
supported by Saudi Arabia and the other Western-backed Gulf
dictatorships – the same regimes that are facilitating the NATO carve up
of Libya. Washington and London are actively supporting this state
terrorism in Bahrain, politically and militarily to the tune of $20
million a year.
The US/British-backed state terrorism in Bahrain has
seen, among other violations, the incarceration and torture of medics
who had treated the injured and the illegal detention of students who
simply expressed their political opinions. Among the imprisoned and
tortured are human rights activists Abdulhadi Al Khawaja and Abdul Jalil
Al Singace who were sentenced to life imprisonment by a military show
trial court. The two men are in their second week of hunger strike. On
Sunday, the 11th of September, they have now been joined in their
starvation protest by students and civilians across Bahrain.
This is the state of affairs in a US-backed regime
that serves as a base for the American Navy’s Fifth Fleet. Citizens who
have peacefully demanded democratic rights, such as an elected
government and respect for human rights, have been slaughtered and are
now, in extreme, forced to go on a hungerstrike to protest against
heinous violations by the US-backed regimes of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia –
the same regimes that co-sponsor Islamic extremists along with their
Western patrons.
Bahrain shows the reality underneath the rhetoric;
that the US and its Western/Arab clients stand for lawlessness and state
terrorism. The footprint of that reality is not just Ground Zero in New
York. It can be clearly seen in Bahrain and many other countries where
people are struggling simply for democracy. On the 9/11 anniversary,
Americans would do well to turn their attention away from the mawkish
nonsense spouted by their politicians and mainstream media and take a
look at what is really going on in the world under the boot of the
Washington regime in places like Bahrain. Understanding that would be a
far more fitting tribute to the victims of 9/11 and to the many more
innocent victims that have followed since that date.
Finian Cunningham is a Global Research
Correspondent based in Belfast, Ireland. He was expelled from Bahrain on
18 June over his critical journalism covering human rights violations
by the Al Khalifa regime. cunninghamfin@yahoo.com
