Saturday, February 10, 2007

History Began at 8:46 AM on a Tuesday Morning

At least, that's the impression you'd get from watching this (short) video.

The video claims that the "myths" of 9-11 (that the buildings collapsed because of the fires and that Osama Bin Laden was behind it) were planted in the public's mind by the media carefully and deliberately. Hilariously, the guy acts as if Osama was completely unknown in America prior to 9-11. In fact, he was already wanted for the bombings of US embassies in Africa in 1998, when a two-page feature appeared on him in Time. Indeed, that wanted poster that the Deniers love to point out does not contain mention of 9-11, does mention the embassy bombings:

USAMA BIN LADEN IS WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE AUGUST 7, 1998, BOMBINGS OF THE UNITED STATES EMBASSIES IN DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA, AND NAIROBI, KENYA. THESE ATTACKS KILLED OVER 200 PEOPLE. IN ADDITION, BIN LADEN IS A SUSPECT IN OTHER TERRORIST ATTACKS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.


As for the fires (combined with the damage from the impact of the planes) bringing down the buildings, the filmmaker apparently thinks that had this one rescue worker not mentioned it, perhaps 9-11 Troof would have caught on with the public sooner. But even David Ray Griffin would probably have speculated that cause on 9-11; by his own account he didn't even suspect the "New Pearl Harbor" until a year afterwards.

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