Comments on: Chomsky: No Evidence Provided For 9/11 War

By: albert lucientes

albert lucientes — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:11:43 +0000

i dont see the difference. Al Qaeda, like the ‘intelligence’ to invade Iraq, and how confounded the two were in the minds of most Americans, was created out of thin air, so to speak.

By: cosmos

cosmos — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 04:38:37 +0000

I changed the headline. I was hesitant to do so, since it had already been published for so long, but I think the mandate for maximal accuracy and clarity outweighs that consideration. I do think I might have been swayed by other sites – including Raw Story – going with “No evidence of al Qaeda” line. But this headline is better and I’ll go with my gut next time. Chalk one up for editorial transparency and thanks for the feedback!

By: Don Paul

Don Paul — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:15:55 +0000

Cosmos,

Yes, I think your first pick is definitely preferable and actually puts Chomsky and the war-makers more on the spot.

Don

By: cosmos

cosmos — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:20:15 +0000

Perhaps I should have gone with my first headline pick “Chomsky: No Evidence Provided For 9/11 War”.

By: Don Paul

Don Paul — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:25:35 +0000

Much as I appreciate the 911truthnews.com site, your headline for the excerpt from the Chomsky interview misrepresents its content. N C does not say al-Qaeda in this excerpt; he repeatedly says “the Taliban.” He says that in October 2001 the U.S./British Governments could not supply evidence linking the Taliban to the 9/11 attacks. Also, he hugely misstates the full dimension of Robert Mueller’s admission in Spring 2002 about the FBI’s lack of evidence in regard to the 19 alleged “hijackers.” (Mueller told the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on April 19, 2002: “In our investigation, we have not uncovered a single piece of paper – either here in the United States, or in the treasure trove of information that has turned up in Afghanistan and elsewhere – that mentioned any aspect of the September 11 plot.”) Also, Chomsky specifically echoes in this video-clip the U.S. Government’s secondary line that the plot originated “in the United Arab Emirates and Germany”–i.e., with al Qaeda.

In short, this excerpt from the recent interview does not convey any real step forward by Chomsky toward 9/11 truth.

Readers might want to check out a more extensive rebuttal to Chomsky’s kind of “structural analysis”, offered through an interview with Bob Feldman from June 2003–http://www.questionsquestions.net/docs04/0526_donpaul.html .

By: Jon Gold

Jon Gold — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 03:39:33 +0000

It’s important to note that Noam Chomsky is referring to the incident specifically about Osama Bin Laden. Not “Al-Qaeda.”