Emily Louise Church: Hi, I’m a big fan of yours. You said at the end of the film that we should always question the official story. Do you think that things like that also apply to the issue of 9/11? Because what we’ve basically seen in the media is everyone carrying on with the official story, and not even questioning slightly what they say, even though there are gaping holes in it. If you read something like the 9/11 Commission report, which I’m reading currently, it’s so very clear to see that there are so many gaping holes. And the media have completely wiped over it and not questioned it at all when there are thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of people all over this world who do actually doubt it and they are labelled as conspiracy theorists. I just wanted to know your opinions on that.

John Pilger: [inaudible] that’s one of the difficulties but it’s not a proper answer to your question. In fact, it’s part of the answer that I say to anybody who asks about 9/11, do read the Kean Report, the official report, that’s all you need to read, er… and that’s, as you say, full of so many omissions and so frustrated in being denied information… Ah that’s a long way from saying Mr Bush and Mr Cheney arranged the whole thing, blew up buildings. No it isn’t but ah… certainly I don’t think there has been… um… I don’t think there has been the kind of concerted questioning of really salient points about 9/11 that there ought to be. One of the reasons that I believe that 9/11 happened and then things then followed in very very quick time, and Iraq and Afghanistan were brought in the frame, this sense of shock consumed er… journalism, politics in this country and in the United States and so on. And unfortunately the genuine conspiracy theorists have then made it quite difficult, I don’t blame them entirely but they’ve made it quite difficult for an open debate about 9/11. I have to say at public meetings in the United States when I speak, I’ll always get 2 or 3 on 9/11, and they are deeply conspiratorial so it’s very difficult to work with. There’s so much about 9/11 that I don’t think we’ve got the time to talk about right here, but it is something that requires more investigation, of course.

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Audience Question: “I would like to ask your views or theory that the US government was complicit in or even perpetrated the attacks on 9/11 to gain support for criminal [inaudible] Afghanistan and Iraq?”

John Pilger: “I think there is a lot of evidence that certain elements in the Bush administration, whether by intent or by or by their own arrogant incompetence, I don’t know, let things happen. I think there is enough evidence to…

We know the senior FBI people who gave warnings right throughout 2001. We know about the extraordinary inactivity by the NORAD aircraft on the day of September 11th. We know that Cheney was in charge of the White House on that day.

I think the most plausible is the “let it happen”, now at what stage it was let happen, I don’t know, I don’t know. But certainly that seems to me, the most plausible.

There is no doubt that 9/11 became the opportunity for a new “Cold War” basically, only called the “War on Terror”. But beyond that I wouldn’t want to…”

John Pilger on 9/11 by 9/11 Truth News

The image above was taken from an interview with John Pilger at the same event.

Thanks to Chris C and ZKT for the audio and transcription.

John Pilger’s website

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