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Demand Congressional Inquiry of 9-11

by Carol Brouillet (cbrouillet [at] igc.org)
Demanding a Congressional Inquiry of 9/ll, March and Delegation to meet with Senator Feinstein's staff, Tuesday, January 8th, San Francisco, Noon-(Justin Heman Plaza), March up Market Street to Post where Senator Feinstein's office is for 1:00 meetingFeinstein's office
The events of 9/11 shocked and horrified many people and plunged the U.S. into a "War on Terrorism" and a "War on Afghanistan" and perhaps an expanding "War upon many, many other countries." The media has not seriously questioned the U.S. government's assessment of "who was responsible," "why," or even "how," but has beat the drum for war and retaliation. Sober analysis and inquiries into the relationships between the "suspected terrorist group, Osama Bin Laden" and the Bush family, the CIA, Pakistani Intelligence, Saudi Intelligence have not been publicly explored.


We must raise these questions and issues, in public, in the media, with our elected representatives, and demand a full Congressional hearing.


I am compiling the most compelling evidence, articles, that I have been able to locate to present to my congresswoman, my senators, and the media. I urge you to do the same with your representatives, or to contact the media (email me if you want a media kit), or to support my efforts physically, especially if you live in Northern California.


On January 8th at 1:00pm, a delegation of people will meet with Senator Feinstein , it would be good to have a diverse group of people (limited to 10)- representing students, labor, faith based groups, peace organizations, business, perhaps even retired military of varying ages, ethnicity, gender- please contact me, if you would like to be part of the delegation- I need to fax names beforehand.


If a few hundred or thousands of people were to be demonstrating that afternoon against war, for truth, justice... it certainly wouldn't hurt to get the message across loud and clear to the world. We could meet at Justin Herman Plaza at noon and march right up Market Street to Feinstein's office at Post and Market, bring signs, leaflets, songs, creativity, enthusiasm...


The aftermath of 9/11 fits too clearly the agenda of transnational corporations (whose ruthless pursuit of profit includes terrorizing populations, waging war, pillaging the Earth's resources, oblivious to the suffering and damage to humanity and the biosphere upon which all Life depends.) A major power shift has occurred, democracy is threatened, civil and human rights everywhere are threatened; the power of police, militaries and corporations are being strengthened. China has joined the WTO; deals for pipelines to funnel the Caspian Sea oil to the growing markets of Asia are being struck. An informed US public was, and still is, the greatest threat to blatant corporate rule via the WTO, IMF, World Bank, UN, NATO dominated by the US and backed by US military power.


Our challenge is to penetrate the veils, expose the truth, separate the propaganda from reality, cast light upon the darkness.


Here are some of the questions that need to be asked (and answered) with links to key articles and websites-


Who is Osama Bin Laden?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO109C.html http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO110A.html

Who created and funded the Al Qaeda Network?

http://www.communitycurrency.org/vital.html

What is the relationship between Bin Laden, his family and the Bush family?

http://www.copvcia.com/stories/sept_2001/bushbin.html http://globalresearch.ca/articles/LAZ112A.html

Why were no fighter planes dispatched to intercept the four hijacked planes on September 11th?

http://www.nypress.com/14/50/taki/bunker.cfm http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-1.htm http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-2.htm

What role did Pakistani Intelligence play on September 11th?

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111A.html#c

Did the CIA have foreknowledge of the attack, who tried to profit with put options on American, United, Merrill Lynch... stock just before the attack??

http://www.copvcia.com/stories/oct_2001/krongard.html http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=99402

Why were the FBI told to not investigate the Bin Laden family links in the US?

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/BBC111A.html http://globalresearch.ca/articles/HIN111A.html http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MAR111A.html

If the CIA met with Bin Laden last July, why didn't they try to arrest him?

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/RIC111B.html

If the US is serious about ridding the world of terrorism, why do we continue to fund and train terrorists?

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/PAS111A.html http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MAR111A.html

IF CIA AND THE GOVERNMENT WEREN’T INVOLVED IN THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS, WHAT WERE THEY DOING?

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/RUP112A.html

Why are we bombing Afghanistan, when none of the alleged bombers actually came form there, could there be another reason for our presence in that region?

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/RUP111B.html http://globalresearch.ca/articles/PIL111B.html

Is this war illegal? When will the FBI, the CIA and the National Security Agency start to turn their new powers (that they have under the Ashcroft police state bill) against American citizens?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BOY111C.html

What are Bush, Cheney and Rice's connections to the oil industry?

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CAV111A.html

Has the US government ever thought to mislead the public to justify a war against another country?

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/

Who was responsible for the Anthrax attacks, and why were Democrats and the media the targets?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111D.html http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,582222,00.html

Why seal Presidential records? Why intimidate professors from speaking out against this war?

http://www.tompaine.com/features/2001/11/30/3.html http://globalresearch.ca/articles//GON112A.html http://globalresearch.ca/articles//MCM112A.html http://globalresearch.ca/articles/VIN111A.html


Please e-mail or phone me to help with this.
Carol Brouillet tel- 650-857-0927, fax 650-857-0419, email- cbrouillet [at] igc.org, website- http://www.communitycurrency.org

by sarah olson
hi. thank you very much for all of this information. but could you get rid of the picture of bush with a turban on his head. that picture is offensive to people who wear turbans.

thanks!
by huh?
why is it offensive to people who wear turbans? if he was wearing a baseball cap, would that be offensive to rednecks? if he was wearing a beret, would that be offensive to french people? i think the point being made is that bush and bin laden are not too far apart from each other politically and i dont see how that would be offensive to people who wear turbans.
by BD
The point is to force the issue into the light of day, where the drones can see it. A meeting with Feinstein will garner some mainstream press. And, she may actually have to try and answer some of those questions. Won't that be interesting?
by concerned citizen
We need to push hard to bring this to light.

FAST.

The worst case scenario is truly chilling and it will only be resolved with a committed push from many people to get the government to look at itself.

Not that likely with the likes of Feinstein, but public pressure can make a difference.

Don't let this horrendous crime fall away like so many other deceptions of the public in the past.

I wish I had known in advance of this march, is there a mailing list? Should I just keep checking indymedia?
by imc you and me
http://www.ecologynews.com/cuenews43updates3.html

Numerous articles exist around the fact that the evidence that the WTC was really (or presumably) blown up by bombs is being destroyed, despite the protests of the official investigative team.
by New Bohemian
My guess is that bin Laden is having cocktails with George H. W. Bush at the Bohemain Grove in Sonoma County.

What if Osama bin Laden were to make it to Paris, France, would the US decide to obliterate France?
by salik bi al-Haqq
when i think of all the stories the imc can be covering and i look at this picture and this conspiracy theory of unproven loosely knit unconfirmed reports it saddens me to think about all the people that have come to rely on IMC cameras to some how protect them at protests. to see such information passed on as journalism. i do find it somewhat racist. of course only the white man could blow shit up so effectively, never mind bin ladin gloating on tape, never mind the vast majority of muslim world opinion believing that this is not a CIA conspiracy. so keep digging, maybe one day you will find some evidence to back it up. but probably not and this will just be another one of thos whacky leftist threads while people will continue to be killed in Iraq, continue to be killed in Palestine. continue to be killed on our streets here. we won't see any marches this year for the tens of thousands that will die in Iraq will we. i really think the sf-imc has denigrated itself. i will truly have to reconsider any involvement with it, yet i know that people on the streets are counting on someone to speak for them. will whoever that is always be some self-demoralizing whacked out group of people claiming to speak for for others even when those others keep saying we don't aggree with you. A Turban is worn by many as a sign of honor and respect. you have taken that cultural item, and placed it on a person that is not of the culture it belongs to. Appropriating cultural items that have spiritual significance, for instance the Afghani sufi order Naqshbandis use a white turban as a sign of spiritual wisdom. Do you believe G.W. Bush is spiritually wise? I really have a hard time understand this. I just don't get this shit anymore.
by yuri andropov
i don't understand the last comment. i dont think anyone is denying that a muslim and/or arab person could commit violent acts against the united states. obviously, this is not the first time and it probably won't be the last time. but that is not to underscore the seriousness of finding out what really happened. these aren't 'conspiracy theories' .... these are obvious questions that come up when corporate media, the government, etc have such a unified and impenetrable stance on what is going on. history is written by the victors, and anyone who assumes they know what is happening without questioning based on what the US Government says is full of it.

furthermore, arab sources like aljazeera, muslim jihad news sites, etc have all pushed this 'conspiracy' theory long before it caught on in the USA (although, sf-imc to its credit *did* immediately begin questioning the government-based reality of sept 11th). i have seen numerous foreign media stories talking about mossad involvement, CIA's relationship with osama bin laden, etc. for all we know, just like when iraq invaded kuwait, the US or some powerful group representing to be the US gave a "green light" for an action to occur, etc.

when people were talking about the suspicious circumstances around the gulf of tonkin attack, was that a racist stance towards asian people? i dont think so, and history has proven that to be true.

the fact is there should be more u.s. support for the cause of palestinians, and there should be more u.s. support for the people of iraq. but i dont see you saying what can be done to promote internationalism in a struggling american left. instead i see you contributing to the same vague sectarianism that is literally crippling this movement.
by lisa
i posted the picture (which is now removed) in the center column of this site... and here was my thinking... in case any one is remotely interested...
the picture was a parody... specifically about how the
u.s. government is implying a man in a turban (osama)
is associated with terrorism. it illustrated that no -
terrorists actually do NOT all wear turbans. and the
picture illustrated the uncertainty of the ties
between al queda and bush - which is what the story is
about. so there it is for ultimate editorial transparency. also, the sf-imc editorial collective hotly debated this issue, and hence it was removed from the center column.

i apologize if it offended anyone, it was not meant that way. as for the article... i think it is newsworthy... we should question things - and pressure the u.s. government, to do the same.
by nigerian muslim
I am from Nigeria and I am a Muslim. I do not understand why Bush in a turban is offensive. Is the turban so foreign and mysterious to you that putting it in a picture throws us into fits of self-persecution?
by Demitria Monde Thraam (monde [at] involution.org)
I will post this information on a special page on my own website that deals with these issues.

As for the turban business, please llghten up people, it was a joke. I can see the meaning in it and it is not supposed to be a slam on the turban-wearing of the world. I am a fat person who sometimes gets a little too oversensitive about fat jokes but back when Sanford Wallace - that guy from Cyberpromo - was spamming everyone a few years back, I'd see lots of pictures of him referring to his obesity and realized that it was poking fun at Sanford Wallace, not poking fun at all fat people. I see a parallel here.
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