September 11th Hijackers and the U.S.
President George W. Bush has vowed to find and punish terrorists and "those who harbor them". So where did the hijackers of September 11, 2001 live and train? In and around U.S. military bases, particularly in Florida (where Curious George's brother, Jeb, is governor).
- Ed.
Sept. 15, 2001 — U.S. military sources have given the FBI information that suggests five of the alleged hijackers of the planes that were used in Tuesday’s terror attacks received training at secure U.S. military installations in the 1990s.
Three of the alleged hijackers listed their address on drivers licenses and car registrations as the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida — known as the “Cradle of U.S. Navy Aviation,” according to a high-ranking U.S. Navy source.
Another of the alleged hijackers may have been trained in strategy and tactics at the Air War College in Montgomery, Ala., said another high-ranking Pentagon official. The fifth man may have received language instruction at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
http://msnbc.com/news/629529.asp?cp1=1
The United States government funded, harbored, and trained the 9-11 terrorists. So what has the U.S. been doing to reduce terrorism? As this article from 1986 tells us, what's being done is more likely to provoke than prevent terrorism.
- Ed.
"The combating of terrorism is not helped by bombastic speeches at high
levels, stressing what a monstrous evil terrorism is and that its elimination is
to be given the highest priority. I'm afraid that the most likely terrorist
reaction to such a speech, whether it comes from a President, a Secretary of
State, or other important official, is: "You see, they have to pay
attention to us now. We are hurting them. Let's give them more of the same.
" And it all helps with recruitment. A movement that is denounced by a
President is in the big time. And some kind of big time is what is most wanted
by the aggressive and frustrated, who constitute the pool on which terrorist
movements can draw.
"What applies to speeches applies a fortiori to unilateral, military
action against countries harboring terrorists. Whatever short-term advantages
may be derived from such attacks, a price will be paid — in increased
international sympathy for the "cause" of the terrorists in question,
and so in enhanced glamour and elbow room for them, all tending to legitimize
and so facilitate future "counterattacks."
"Today's world — especially the free, or capitalist, world —
provides highly favorable conditions for terrorist recruitment and activity. The
numbers of the frustrated are constantly on the increase, and so is their
awareness of the life-style of the better-off and the vulnerability of the
better-off..... A wide variety of people feel starved for attention, and one
surefire way of attracting instantaneous worldwide attention through television
is to slaughter a considerable number of human beings, in a spectacular fashion,
in the name of a cause."
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/86jun/obrien.htm
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