This book provides an urgent answer to the failure of the US intelligence agencies, the Congressional Joint Inquiry, and the Kean-Hamilton 9-11 Commission to discover the basic facts in the September 2001 terror attacks.

The author starts from the official myth of 9-11 - nineteen Arab hijackers, al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, the laptop in the cave in Afghanistan - and shows how this myth was fabricated during the ten days after 9-11 by media leaks from George Tenet and Richard Clarke, remarks by Colin Powell, and Bush's September 20 address to Congress.

In the meantime, each of these figures has been repeatedly caught blatantly lying about Iraq and other subjects, and it is high time their lies about 9-11 be exposed as well.

After a reality check to establish that no proof for the official account of 9-11 has ever been forthcoming, the author explains international terrorism as based on the experience of the Kennedy assassination, the Red Brigades, and the Baader-Meinhof group.

International terrorism - including 9-11 - is overwhelmingly the product of intelligence agencies, he argues, pointing out the roles of patsies and fall-guys, of networks of moles inside the government and the media, of anonymous professionals who actually carry out the atrocities the public sees, and of secret command cells in privatized paramilitary settings.

Tarpley next analyzes a score of points at which the official account of 9-11 is absurd, contradictory, highly suspect, or just physically impossible. Answering objections, the author shows that such vital ideas in American history as the Declaration of Independence, Lincoln's House Divided Speech, and the 1860 Republican Party platform would be classified as conspiracy theories by the self-appointed neocon guardians of orthodoxy today.  

Tarpley outlines the long history of terrorism as a tool to manipulate public opinion in favor of war and dictatorship, from Guy Fawkes to the Maine to Operation Northwoods. Through his famous spot resolutions which rejected the Polk administration's official account of the outbreak of the Mexican War, the figure of Abraham Lincoln emerges to exemplify the classical American demand for truth and rejection of government manipulation.

This book concludes with a survey of the November 2004 presidential election in the U.S. and the geopolitical struggle between U.S. expansionist neocons and the Russian Federation, placing 9-11 within an ongoing Cold War context.

Table of Contents

Introduction
I. The Myth of the 21st Century
II. The Theory and Practice of
     Synthetic Terrorism
III. The Roots of 9/11: The Globalized
     Crisis of the 1990s
IV. Al Qaeda: The CIA's Arab Legion
V. Could the Alleged Hijackers Fly the
    Planes?
VI. The Collapse of World Trade
      Center 1, 2, and 7
VII. What Hit the Pentagon?
VIII. Shanksville
IX. "Angel Is Next" - The Invisible
      Government Speaks

X. Anthrax
XI. Insider Trading, Cell Phones,
      MI-6 and Mossad
XII. Conspiracy Theory: The Great
       American Tradition
XIII. The 9/11 Myth: Collective
        Schizophrenia
XIV. Networks of Interest
XV. Islamic Fundamentalism: Fostered
       by US Foreign Policy
XVI. Election 2004: In the Shadow of
        Synthetic Terrorism and War

Afterword
Bibliography
Index

478 pages, 6 x 9, Paperback, Illustrated

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