9/11: The Pretext

An alternative approach to 9/11

By Manju Gupta 



9/11: The Pretext, NM Hussain, Other Books, Pp 348, Rs 375.00

Written by an investigative journalist, the book attempts to explore some unsaid and unrevealed mysteries behind the September 11 attack on New York City in 2001, which caused grief over the death of many innocent people on the one hand, and on the other, there was “hatred against the dastardly policies of the US imperialism that brought this about,” says the author. He however, admits that “equally distasteful were the attitudes of terrorist groups that victimise people in its operations of protest against the cruelties of the government.”

Through this book of his, the author, a freelance journalist in Kerala, presents the ‘other’ view of the terrorist attack on September on New York City by calling it a myth in international politics. He says that to substantiate this myth, several sub-myths were created and had this not been so, then why did the British Prime Minister’s dossier not give a single piece of evidence against the activities of the Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden? Why did it leave unsaid the “putative role of the rightist militia which is responsible for the largest terror attacks on the US? Why did the government, rather than presenting a cementing proof, harp on the role of bin Laden without even giving a hint on the rightists, although the latter deserved more suspicion than the former?”

The book is divided into two chapters followed by the appendices. The first chapter titled ‘Fighter Jets Stand Still’ discusses the anomalies in the official US records and the media analyses saying why the fighter jets, which were supposed to intercept the hijacked planes were too late to take off, why the subsequent actions were lackadaisical and why 9/11 Commission Report and mainstream media left it unnoticed. That the US Government itself could murder its citizens by attacking the Twin Towers could be a possibility according to him. The second chapter titled ‘Operation Northwoods’ tries to provide answers to some questions that the readers may like to be answered during the process of reading. Through his own answers the author tries to focus on the “machinations of the US from 1962, the political lies it told, the terror links it manufactured and the politics of oil.”

The Appendices present the summary of analyses done by investigators like David Ray Griffin, Paul Thomson, Nafeez Mossaddeq Ahmad and other analysts to give a bird’s eye-view of the alternative findings on the event.
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