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America Need New 9/11 ?

 

 

     [ Written by Hammad Yousuf, Chairman, MetaExistence Organization,  a non-profit   Organization that helps to improve policy and decision-making in Pakistan and other Islamic countries through Research and Analysis. ]

 

The presumption of a Second 9/11 has become an integral part of US military doctrine. America is under attack. The US military must respond preemptively. 

Operation Northwoods  

The concept of massive casualty producing event is part of military planning. In 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff had envisaged a secret plan entitled Operation Northwoods, to deliberately trigger civilian casualties among the Cuban community in Miami (i.e. staging the assassination of Cubans living in the US) to justify an invasion of Cuba:

Former CENTCOM Commander, General Tommy Franks, in an magazine interview in December 2003, had outlined a scenario of what he described as a massive casualty producing event on American soil a Second 9/11. Implied in General Franks statement was the notion and belief that civilian deaths were necessary to raise awareness and muster public support for the global war on terrorism.  

terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event will occur somewhere in the Western world it may be in the United States of America - that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event. (General Tommy Franks Interview, Cigar Aficionado, December 2003)

Franks was obliquely alluding to a Second 9/11 terrorist attack, which could be used to galvanize US public opinion in support of martial law. 

Statements emanating from the White House, the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security point to a growing consensus on the necessity and inevitability of  a second terrorist attack on a major urban area in the US. 

Various scenarios of a Second 9/11 attack on the United States were envisaged. According to the Pentagon a second attack on America, would serve an important  policy objective.  

The three Pentagon documents consisted of an overall  campaign plan plus two subordinate plans. The second subordinate plan explicitly focused on the possibility of  a Second 9/11 and how a second major attack on American soil might provide an opportunity to extend the US led war in the Middle East into new frontiers: 

It sets out how the military can both disrupt and respond to another major terrorist strike on the United States. It includes lengthy annexes that offer a menu of options for the military to retaliate quickly against specific terrorist groups, individuals or state sponsors depending on who is believed to be behind an attack. Another attack could create both a justification and an opportunity that is lacking today to retaliate against some known targets, according to current and former defense officials familiar with the plan. (Washington Post, 23 April 2006, emphasis added)

Who are the Known Targets ?

America is power. America has a world’s most powerful army. America has a powerful spy infrastructure across the world. There is no country in the world that wants to like a fight with US. There is no group in the world that have a ability to attack on United Stated, Not in the Past nor in the present.

Without enemy, you cannot fight a war and United States is well versed about how to fabricate an enemy.

 

Now America needs another 9/11 due to the following reasons.

 

1.     Failure of objectives in Iraq war.

2.     Failure of Objectives in Afghanistan.

3.     Sexual Abuses on US Army.

4.  Disarm the Pakistan's nuclear assets before the start of Middle East Military Agenda or Attack on Iran.

These are the four key points that is why America needs new 9/11.

In 2007, US Military apparatus has taken a U-Turn towards Pakistan instead of Iran. It is an important change of US Military Strategy in this region. There are a number of constant statements made by US Foreign office, State department and even the director of CIA that the next attempt on United States will originate form Pakistan.

In July 2008, US started a constant air strikes inside the tribal areas of Pakistan that are still going on.

 

Is Al-Qaeda  really a threat for America:

  1. First of all, The terrorist organization itself is a question. Many US and Non US think tanks believes that Al-Qaeda is a production of US Intelligence Apparatus. Al-Qaeda organization is a “shield deployment” of American imperialism in the world especially middle east.
  2. After 8 years of long military operations against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. It is not acceptable by a common man that al-Qaeda have a strength to attack on America, even with nuclear weapons. It is totally disinformation campaign by united states of America.

Psychological Preparation of American People

US Government is continuously involved in the Psychological Preparation of American people that "We are under threat".

Let us see some statements of US officials in the Psychological Preparation.

The near-term attacks ... will either rival or exceed the 9/11 attacks...  And it's pretty clear that the nation's capital and New York city would be on any list.

(Former DHS Secretary Tom Ridge, December 2003)

You ask, Is it serious?  Yes, you bet your life. People dont do that unless its a serious situation. (Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, December 2003)

Credible reporting indicates that Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States in an effort to disrupt our democratic process... (Former DHS Secretary Tom Ridge, 8 July 2004)

The enemy that struck on 9/11 is weakened and fractured yet it is still lethal and planning to hit us again. (Vice President Dick Cheney, 7 January 2006)

Our main enemy is al Qaeda and its affiliates. Their allies choose their victims indiscriminately. They murder the innocent to advance a focused and clear ideology. They seek to establish a radical Islamic caliphate, so they can impose a brutal new order on unwilling people, much as Nazis and communists sought to do in the last century. This enemy will accept no compromise with the civilized world.... (President George W. Bush, CENTCOM Coalition Conference, May 1, 2007)

We now have capabilities in science and technology that raise the very realistic possibility that a small group of terrorists could kill not only thousands of people, as they did on September 11th, but hundreds of thousands of people. And that has changed the dimension of the threat we face. (Michael Chertoff, Homeland Security Secretary,  Yale University, April 7, 2008. 

We are fighting a war on terror because the enemy attacked us first, and hit us hard. ... Al Qaeda's leadership has said they have the right to kill four million Americans, For nearly six years now, the United States has been able to defeat their attempts to attack us here at home. Nobody can guarantee that we wont be hit again. ... (Vice President Dick Cheney, United States Military Academy Commencement, West Point, New York, May 26, 2008)

[Question: Who's the enemy?] Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them. (Barack Obama in response to Bill O Reilly, Fox News, September 5, 2008)

We have dealt a serious blow to al Qaeda in recent years. But they are not defeated, and they will strike us again if they can. (John McCain, Acceptance Speech, September 5, 2008)

All these authoritative statements point in chorus in the same direction:  The enemy will strike again!  

Mainstream Media Report: "The Need" for a Second 9/11

While the Washington Post leaked the substance of the Pentagon's classified documents pertaining to the opportunity of a Second 9/11, the issue has not been the object of mainstream commentary or analysis. 

It is worth noting, however, that in an August 2007 Fox News interview, A Second 9/11 was heralded as a means to create awareness and unite Americans against the enemy. 

Broadcast on Fox News, Columnist Stu Bykofsky claimed that America needs a new 9/11 to unite the American people, because they have "forgotten" who the enemy is. He also claimed that there will be another 9/11, and Fox New Anchorman John Gibson concurred. Civilian casualties would contribute to uniting the country and creating awareness: 

 it iss going to take a lot of dead people to wake America up said John Gibson.

While Stu Bykofskys controversial article in the Philadelphia Daily News (August 9, 2007) was, at the time, considered as outlandish, what Bykovsky was actually saying was not very different from the Pentagon's ploy (modeled on Operation Northwoods) concerning the role of massive casualty producing events in triggering  a useful wave of indignation, thereby galvanizing unbending public support for a military/ national security agenda.

Transcript Fox News Network

THE BIG STORY WITH JOHN GIBSON 

To view the TV interview click here

August 7, 2007, 5PM, EST 

Columnist Comes Under Fire for Saying "We Need Another 9/11 Attack"

Anchorman: John Gibson

Interview with Columnist Stu Bykofsky

John Gibson: In big security, to save America we need another 9/11. That’s what one columnist is advocating as a way to unite America. Nearly 6 years after the heinous terror attacks he says we have forgotten our enemy. He says the Iraq war has divided the US, the Republicans and Democrats are on the attack over the war, we pulled together after 9/11 but he justifies his controversial statement by saying the united front just didn’t last. And now, bloggers are outraged. Some say the journalist should be fired from his job for suggesting we, quote, “need” another attack. So is this just a means to shock or offend or does this columnist actually have a valid point? Well, he’s here now live to explain: Philadelphia Daily news columnist Stu Bykofsky. So Stu, let me... let’s just say it again. What do you say America needs at this point?

Stu Bykofsky: Well, my thesis here is that we are terribly divided, there is disunity in this country, and as a divided country we are weak. When I look back over what has pulled the country together over the past few years, 9/11 united the country and it remained united and we were all on the same team for at least a year or two.

John Gibson: Stu, but do you mean to say that we are going to be attacked again, we will be united again, there’s a sort of inevitability to that or that in order to achieve this unity we actually need to suffer?

Stu Bykofsky: Uh, John, I did not actually call for an attack on the United States. Uh, I can see where people read it that way but I did not actually say it. However, another attack on the United States is inevitable. I believe that, do not you?

John Gibson: Yes, I do, actually, and I think that it’s going to take a lot of dead people to wake America up. I think the deal, Steve, Stu, Iam sorry...

Stu Bykofsky: Its okay.

John Gibson: Is the word need. If you say, well, its gonna happen and it, you know, Americans are gonna die because we’ve let down our guard one thing  but when you say we need an attack it especially has riled relatives of the dead.

Stu Bykofsky: John, uh, I can understand them being upset. Are you reading from the headline or from the text of my column which I don’t have in front of me?

John Gibson: Well, that is a good point. Did you use the word need in the text or was it only the headline?

Stu Bykofsky: It is the headline.

John Gibson: So you do not actually, you do not endorse the word need?

Stu Bykofsky: Uh, no, I do not. There was a slight difference. Other people write headlines and its not exactly what I was trying to say.

John Gibson: Alright, so...

Stu Bykofsky: But, but if you look at the context...

John Gibson: But, but what you are trying to say is, is that, that somehow we have been, we’ve let down our guard, were fighting each other instead of the terrorists and that if we don’t get it together people are going to die.

Stu Bykofsky: Thats absolutely correct. We are fighting like a group of rabid dogs and our attention should be turned elsewhere. And I also say that the primary reason for that in my opinion is the, uh, the war in Iraq which has been conducted so horribly by the administration.

John Gibson: Stu

Stu Bykofsky: Not by our troops.

John Gibson: Yeah, okay, I do not want to get you in further trouble. Stu, uh, what has been the reaction? Did the newspaper switchboard light up?

Stu Bykofsky: Uh, no, we donot have a switchboard, John. Uh, yesterday when it appeared, the reaction was moderate because I think people in Philadelphia who have been reading me for a long time maybe know what to expect. Then it got posted somewhere outside of Philadelphia and this morning when I came in uh, there were well over a thousand e-mails and more kept coming in during the day. And a lot of calls...

John Gibson: A bunch want you fired, right?

Stu Bykofsky: Pardon?

John Gibson: A bunch of those e-mails want you fired, right?

Stu Bykofsky: Uh, a number of people told me that they were calling my editor and they were going to suggest that he fire me, yes.  I don’t think that’s going to happen.

John Gibson: You standing by the column?

Stu Bykofsky: Oh, absolutely.

John Gibson: Stu Bykofsky, down in Philadelphia. Stu, thanks a lot.

What is Next: The Prediction 

According to the analysis of Bush administration's statements and Obama, McCain statements it is widely clear that the new 9/11 is a need of American policy. Now the question is: what will the type of attack? In the current situation, Pakistan is under attack by US Spy crafts and the propaganda of US media apparatus against the nuclear assets of Pakistan. The picture is very clear. The Next Attack on United States will nuclear attack with a large number of causalities. Blame will go to Pakistan's nuclear assets.

 

America Need New 9/11

 [ Written by Hammad Yousuf, Chairman, MetaExistence Organization,  a non-profit   Organization that helps to improve policy and decision-making in Pakistan and other Islamic countries through Research and Analysis. ]

 

 

 


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