New pressure group Accountable Democracy will be announcing the results of an opinion poll on public attitudes to the 9/11 attacks.
The poll will examine public attitudes to the official narrative of the attacks, which holds that the Al Qaeda attackers pulled off one of history’s most spectacular attacks entirely by themselves, undetected by any of the agencies whose job it was to hunt them down.
Last year polls in France and the UK found substantial minorities who thought the attacks were (France) or might have been (UK) aided by rogue agents within western security services.
Last year this possibility, long voiced by seasoned independent observers like Gore Vidal and John Pilger, received the support of Richard Clark, White House anti-terror chief at the time, and Ali Soufan, a lead FBI al Qaeda investigator. Both confirmed complaints from several FBI offices that investigations which would have thwarted the 9/11 attacks had been blocked by managers.
The CIA’s contacts in the media have responded by suggesting that the alleged 9/11 hijackers were granted a free run in the US because they had been tricked by rogue elements in the Saudi intelligence services. But one expert said: “this is a classic limited hangout but no-one will believe that the CIA trusted the Saudis when the record shows they did not”.
Notes
1. Accountable Democracy will be campaigning for the rule of law to be applied at all levels of society including the banking sector, the political parties, the media, the police and the security services. The first national conference is on November 10 2012, speakers and agenda to be announced.
2. Here are three key sources on the 9/11 attacks
a. On The Eleventh Day – The Ultimate Account of 9/11 by Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan which echoes the official Washington/CIA line.
b. Disconnecting the Dots by Kevin Fenton, a meticulous examination of the various official investigations leaving little or no doubt that there was indeed a rogue network operating around the CIA’s Osama Bin Laden unit and its supervisors.
c. Mounting Evidence by US academic Paul Shea which looks at a wide range of issues, including the evidence for an official NORAD standown on the day; whether the alleged terrorist hijackers had the spectacular flying skills attributed to them; and the mystery of how two aircraft could have caused the total collapse of three skyscrapers (into their own footprint at near freefall speed), when the Twin Towers had been designed to withstand an aircraft collision.