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Terrorism expert reveals who's to blame for the 9-11 attack--Clinton, Bush, Albright, Berger, Cohen, Rice, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell, Clarke or Who. ·

    A soon-to-be-identified expert on terrorism reveals evidence showing who deserves blame for the 9-11 attack.  However, before explaining evidence revealing who deserves such blame, the soon-to-be-identified expert insists on recounting relevant historical events that buttresses the compelling evidence supporting such findings.  What follows is a summary of such historical events:

    After fanatical mobs seized the American Embassy in Tehran and held American diplomatic employees hostage, Jimmy Carter ordered a rescue mission, which failed despite the heroism of those on the mission.  Burned by the failure of that mission, he did not order another one.  To spite Carter, and perhaps fearing Reagan, the fanatics released the hostages on the day of Reagan's inauguration as Carter's successor.  

    In 1983, Reagan made the mistake (in the words of then-Senator Barry Goldwater) of sending to Lebanon too few Marines to do the job (of containing the PLO) and too many to die.  After a truck bomb killed hundreds of Marines in their barracks in Lebanon, Reagan withdrew from Lebanon.  He had made the mistake of starting something he wasn't then prepared to finish.  

    In the early 1980's, Iranian fanatics duped Reagan's operatives into believing they were moderates poised to seize power from the fanatics controlling Iran and that by acquiring American weapons for use against Iraq in the Iran/Iraq war they would thereby acquire influence to persuade the fanatics controlling those holding American hostages in Lebanon to release the hostages.  Reagan's operatives procured sequential releases of a number of hostages by covertly selling to such the Iranians posing as "moderates" American weapons the operatives first purchased from the U.S. military.   Meanwhile, Reagan's operatives were diverting profits from such sales to support the Contras in Nicaragua.  Although public revelation of such covert operations led to their cessation and political condemnation of Reagan and the operatives (i.e., Oliver North, et al), the diversion of profits to the Contras proved vital to the ultimate rejection of the Sandinista's totalitarian rule of Nicaragua in favor of non-totalitarian, democratic governance to the credit of North, et al.

    In the 1980's, a series of airline hijackings of airliners other than Israeli airliners repeatedly taught terrorists that Western fears of harm to passengers was so great that terrorists could count on Western governments negotiating with hostage-takers rather than jeopardizing lives of passengers by undertaking rescue missions.  In contrast, Israel's reaction to such hostage-taking was a rescue mission successfully staged against hostages being held at Entebbe.  At Entebbe, the Israeli commandos rescued nearly all the hostages safely, but at least one of the rescuers (the brother of Benjamin Netanyahu) died in the mission. There has not been a hijacking of an Israeli plane since then.

    In 1993, in Somalia, barbaric killers associated with, or inspired by, al Qaeda killed, and then barbarically desecrated the bodies of, American soldiers who were seeking to capture a warlord interfering with a humanitarian mission by American troops initiated under Bush 41 to stop anarchy that was inducing starvation and to provide security to humanitarian organizations feeding the Somali population on the verge of starvation.  Clinton ordered withdrawal of the American forces without those who killed and desecrated the bodies of our troops being required to pay any price for their barbarism.  Usama bin Laden has often cited this to support his assertion to his fanatic followers that such they could count on such acts of slaughter and barbarity to induce the United States to withdraw.

    In 1993, Islamic terrorists, some of whom had indisputable connections to Iraq's intelligence service, bombed the World Trade Center.  One of the conspirators fled to, and received protection of Saddam Hussein's regime in, Iraq.  In 1993, Iraqi intelligence agents attempted to assassinate then-former-President George H. W. Bush (Bush '41) during his visit to Kuwait.  Clinton responded with a cruise-missile attack on a government-ministry building in Iraq.

    In 1995, Islamic fanatics believed to be associated with Usama bin Laden killed five Americans in a car-bomb attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.  In 1996, Islamic fanatics killed 19 American military personnel by bombing the Khobar Towers residential complex for American military personnel in Dharan, Saudi Arabia.  

    In 1998, the two hours-apart bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bore signs of being operations of Islamic fanatics associated with Usama bin Laden.  Two weeks later, Clinton ordered strikes by dozens of cruise missiles on suspected al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and the El Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries factory in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, believed by U.S. intelligence to have been engaging in, or planning to engage in, manufacture of chemical weapons via financial support from Usama bin Laden and direct contacts with the head of Iraq's chemical-weapons program for making VX nerve gas.  (After-attack reports indicated bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders were no longer in the training camps in Afghanistan when the cruise missiles struck and that investigation of the rubble of the pharmaceutical plant failed to reveal chemical-weapons residues.)

    In January, 2000, there was a failed attempt to attack an American destroyer, the U.S.S. Sullivan, and in October, 2000, Islamic fanatics associated with al Qaeda killed 17 sailors and wounded 39 by bombing the U.S.S. Cole in the harbor at Aden, Yemen.

    In July/August 2001, FBI field agents in Minnesota and Arizona independently practicing ethnic profiling of young men from the Middle East ostensibly interested in learning to fly large airplanes without learning to take-off or land failed to persuade their superiors that such activities warranted more aggressive investigative tactics.  By August, Agent Crowley had procured the arrest of Moussaoui for a visa violation but failed to present sufficient probable cause for seizure of his computer hard-drive.  Many in the FBI bureaucracy were still smarting from accusations of prejudice against people from the Middle East as a result of initial reports following the Oklahoma bombing focusing on suspicions that it was the work of Middle-East terrorists.  At the same time, long-standing laws originally intended to protect us from police-state powers being exercised in the name of national security made it a criminal offense for FBI agents to share intelligence with the CIA and vice versa.

    In June/July, 2001, there were "spikes" of intelligence leads suggesting al Qaeda was planning "something big" soon against U.S. interests, and included among such information was information indicating such attack "might" include "hijacking" of airlines to bargain for releases of captives and/or other political concessions.  

    At that time, accepted doctrine for how airlines should respond to any such hijacking was to avoid jeopardizing the passengers by having the airline crew comply with, rather than to resist, hijackers' demands in order to allow "experts" to "negotiate" with the hijackers to secure safe release of the passengers.  If one were to have accepted the predictions of the possibility of hijackings but ignored those same predictions' characterization of such hijackings as being expected comprise the hostage-taking variety and instead embraced the theory that such hijackings would be for the purpose of using passenger airliners as missiles, then to provide a meaningful, non-counterproductive "alert" to airlines would have required instructing them to reverse decades-old doctrine by ordering them to resist the hijackers at all cost regardless of how many passengers they might kill or mutilate to induce the crew to let them gain entry to the cockpit.  Given the information available, no responsible official would have issued any such doctrine-reversing orders even if they were to have known about Moussaoui's incarceration and the contents of the "Phoenix memo."¹ 

Blame-O-Rama-9-11.

    So, who is to blame for the 9-11 attack?  Bill Clinton?  Clinton's advisors?  No.  Madeline Albright?  No.  William Cohen?  No.  Sandy Berger?  No.  Not even Al Gore.  George Bush?  No.  Bush's advisors?  Condoleeza Rice?  No.  Dick Cheney?  No.  Donald Rumsfeld?  No.  Colin Powell?  No.  Not even Richard Clarke.  

For Nine-One-One fixing of blame
this lim'rick peruses the names
of people construed
in hind-sighters' views
as people deserving of blame.

Though some think it fair to blame Clinton,
and Albright, who also is mentioned,
and Cohen as well
and Sandy and Al,
such blame is by fairness forbidden.

Though some think it fair to blame Bush
for failing to urgently push
for Cheney and Condi
and Colin and Rummy
to say, "Plans by Clarke we will push."

However, our expert possessing
the common-sense skill for assessing
the facts as they were
and not as preferred
has learned where the blame should be resting.

You say to our expert on blame
there has to be someone to blame,
but expertise shows
what common-sense knows
as shown in the following frame.*

(*Readers should view the animated slide show "Blame-O-Rama-9-11" to discern whom our expert has discovered to be blameworthy, but readers disliking animations may read the next paragraph.)

    People wanting to know who to blame would say to our expert, "There must be someone to blame!"  To them, our expert replies, "Of course-- the blame belongs on the 19 hijackers, al Qaeda members who supported them, and the masterminds, Usama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri-- it's not rocket science."

¹·"None of the students Williams[, who authored the "Phoenix memo" about young Arab men taking flying lessons,] was investigating were involved in the Sept. 11 hijackings. But one knew hijacker Hani Hanjour from flight training and an Arizona religious center."  

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