Chomsky: No evidence 'al-Qaeda' carried out 9/11 attacks

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"The explicit and declared motive of the [Afghanistan] war was to compel the Taliban to turn over to the United States, the people who they accused of having been involved in World Trade Center and Pentagon terrorist acts. The Taliban…they requested evidence…and the Bush administration refused to provide any," the 81-year-old senior academic made the remarks on Press TV's program a Simple Question.

"We later discovered one of the reasons why they did not bring evidence: they did not have any."

The political analyst also said that nonexistence of such evidence was confirmed by FBI eight months later.

"The head of FBI, after the most intense international investigation in history, informed the press that the FBI believed that the plot may have been hatched in Afghanistan, but was probably implemented in the United Arab Emirates and Germany."

Chomsky added that three weeks into the war, "a British officer announced that the US and Britain would continue bombing, until the people of Afghanistan overthrew the Taliban... That was later turned into the official justification for the war."

"All of this was totally illegal. It was more, criminal," Chomsky said.

The 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan was launched with the official objective of curbing militancy and bringing peace and stability to the country.

Nine years on, however, the American and Afghan officials admit that the country remains unstable and civilians continue to pay the heaviest price.

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Maybe Im mistaken, but I thought Bin Ladin, after some time, announced that he and Al Queda did it.

There are many cases of terrorism attacks in which more than one group attributes an attack to themselves.

In fact, 9/11 is an example. I remember a Japanese group took the credit during the first hours of it.

The only video of that was a fake.

First you claim Bush was so stupid he couldn't even spell his own name now you're saying that he was responsible for 9/11 and flew the planes into the twin towers...

There is a diagnosis called Bush derangement syndrome...

So who did do it then?

presstv.ir is an Iranian propaganda website, dunno what you're doing reading that site.

Noam should hang out with Jesse Ventura. I don't know how either can preach about hating the government and how we can't trust it while spouting these ridiculous conspiracy theories while at the same time supporting socialist or at the very least socialistic policies that would greatly increase the power of the government they claim to hate. I can accept that Ventura isn't the sharpest tool in the shed but I don't know what Chomsky's excuse is.

As a theoretician, Noam Chomsky is one of this planet's preeminent semanticians.

As an expert on history, international relations, and video manipulation, Noam Chomsky is one of this planet's preeminent semanticians.

You might as well ask George Will about brane theory. (Or, to be fair, ask Stephen Hawking about the political implications of the 2010 US elections...)

I've made that claim? I think you have me confused with someone else. Quit making generic "I WATCH FOX NEWS" "conservative" replies.

He did not. He did praise it though.

There's a difference between believing that someone was involved and proving it. Chomsky says that there was no proof that could be used in a court of law. Why do you think it took so long to get Al Capone?

There's a good case to be made that the plot was hatched by people who were of similar opinion to Bin Laden but were not under his command. That the whole plot apparatus disintegrated with the aeroplanes themselves. So with the plotters gone who is left to punish? No one, and that will never do.

At one point someone tried to pin it on the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine! That was one of the first "suspects" cited by media during the extravaganza.

Try typing 'NYC' in the Wingdings font. I think the evidence is pretty clear that Microsoft did 9/11.

Chomsky is a left-wing wacko extremist.........a libertarian socialist (hint:oxymoron) who tongue kiss the like of Chavez and ahmadinejad

what a joke

This is a silly discussion. Anecdotal evidence does not trump the facts.

The hijackers were identified over the 19 days after the attack, they didn't attempt to hide their names. Once the identities were established it was relatively easy to establish their connection to Al Qaeda. Bin Laden was the founder of the organisation and considering that it was Mohammed Atef (the military commander of the organisation) and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed who wired the money to pay for the operation and the hijackers training it was fairly easy to establish who was behind the attacks.

Oh...another fun thing was always Condaleeza Rice saying that there was no way to predict that such an attack was going to happen. The various intelligence reports pretty much predicted it and there was even a TV show earlier that year where one episode was based around the idea of crashing planes into the World Trade Center in New York (the pilot episode of The Lone Gunmen).