F. William Engdahl -- September 11, 2001

F. William Engdahl -- September 11, 2001

Excerpt of Chapter TEN from the book ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’

The call by Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld and others immediately after September 11, 2001 to launch a military assault on Iraq, rather than go after the alleged mastermind, Osama bin Laden, led many astute investigators to ask whether the attacks of September 11, 2001 were in fact the “new Pearl Harbor” the authors of the PNAC report had been praying for.

A growing number of critical citizens began to question the accusations against an elusive Osama bin Laden as mastermind of 19 Arabicspeaking terrorists. The idea that they could commandeer, with only primitive boxcutters, four sophisticated Boeing commercial jets and redirect three of them, successfully, as apparently poorly-trained amateur pilots in air maneuvers which seasoned pilots claimed were near impossible, was creating growing disbelief among ordinary Americans in the official US Government version of the events.

What became clearer in the months after 9-11 was that the attack was clearly used immediately by the Bush Administration, at the very least, as the pretext to launch a war on Islam under the name of a ‘War on Terror,’ the ‘Clash of Civilizations,’ which Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington outlined in the early 1990’s.

Many senior international intelligence experts began to put forward the possibility that the attacks of September 11, 2001 had been a “False Flag” operation.

Eckehardt Werthebach, former president of Germany’s domestic intelligence service, BundesVerfassungsschutz, told the press just after 9/11 that, “the deathly precision and the magnitude of planning behind the attacks would have needed years of planning.”