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| 2006-12-24 |
| Gauhar is allegedly the ghostwriter for Perv's book "In the line of fire" By Humayun Gauhar “Things are not always what they seem,” I said last Sunday. “There is reality and there is manufactured reality.” Manufactured reality is a sort of illusion that creates a certain public perception in order to ‘justify’ a particular project. For example, a particular virus can be let loose (and I dare say, has been) that causes an epidemic in an area. Then the sole manufacturer of the antidote moves in and ‘conveniently’ provides the medicine and rakes in billions. Thank you very much! There is more. There is ‘manufactured reality’ and there is also ‘manufactured foul’. The term comes from the game of polo where players create a situation in which the other side unknowingly and foolishly commits a foul without realising it. It’s a trap that opponents fall for. The Argentines started it but soon the authorities got wind of it and banned it. Now, if a referee feels that one side is trying to manufacture a foul, he intervenes. In world affairs too there are manufactured fouls to ‘justify’ some action, usually nefarious. Cast your mind back to 1991 when the US ambassador to Iraq, April Gillespie, got Saddam Hussein imagining that if he attacked and occupied Kuwait he could get away with it. Saddam fell into the trap but after occupying Kuwait came the realisation that the United States would have none of it. If Saddam had done it of his own volition and wished to hang on to Kuwait, what was there to stop him from pressing on and reaching Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, in 36 to 48 hours and then striking a deal – withdrawal from Saudi Arabia in return for Kuwait? Instead, he just sat in Kuwait while the USA took days first to build a coalition, get UN approval and then build up its forces in Saudi Arabia before it attacked Iraq and ‘liberated’ Kuwait. Beautiful: first have a place occupied and then ‘liberate’ it and earn billions of dollars from the Saudis, Kuwaitis and other gullible Arabs in return. Purpose? Not just the billions of dollars, though capitalism-gone-mad loves it, but the destruction of Iraq’s arsenal that the same USA had provided it in its war against Iran (which too it almost certainly instigated by encouraging Saddam to attack a country in revolutionary turmoil), and to establish military bases in Saudi Arabia. But where is the referee in world affairs? Well, it’s supposed to be the United Nations, but as a peacekeeping and conflict resolution institution it has failed miserably and has become a tool of US foreign policy. Most of the time it conveniently passes resolutions ‘authorising’ America to undertake military intervention or slap economic sanctions on countries that need to be brought to heel. When it doesn’t, as with the second 1993 attack on Iraq, the USA simply ignores the UN and ridicules it. According to the ‘The Observer’ of London, outgoing UN secretary general Kofi Annan “expressed frustration at the power the US wields over the UN in his parting speech…” So much for the referee. Now consider the events of September 11, 2001 – the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the crash of a commercial jetliner over Pennsylvania. Many writers (including this one), commentators and filmmakers have often wondered how someone sitting in a cave in Afghanistan with his kidneys attached to a dialysis machine could have pulled off such an audacious thing. And how could the USA, which monitors every phone conversation in the world and whose satellites can film a peasant girl in Sri Lanka picking tea or the number plate of a car on a road in Africa, have missed this one? American actor-director Michael Moore tried to question the assertion that Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda had the capacity to plan and pull off something like 9/11, but was effectively ridiculed with the help of the US and western global media which works in tandem with US foreign policy. Now comes a documentary called ‘Loose Change’, apparently released on the Internet but which I saw on DVD. If you haven’t seen it, I suggest you waste no time and go buy it or rent it from your local video shop and see it as soon as you can. ‘Loose Change’ too has been made by Americans and questions all US government assertions about 9/11. It makes no judgments; it only provides some historical background prior to 9/11 and backs what it says with official documents and films. For example, back in 1962 the US was planning ‘terrorist’ attacks on its base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including replacing a commercial flight with an unmanned commercial jetliner and crashing it over the water near Cuba, in order to justify an attack on Cuba. Kennedy turned it down. The US has the ability to hijack planes from the ground. They show films of how buildings collapse in a concertina effect when explosives are strategically placed in it so that surrounding buildings are not damaged. The Twin Towers collapsed just like that. They show in slow motion flashes in both building as floors collapsed one after the other, suggesting that they were from explosives strategically planted inside the towers earlier. Inexplicably, explosive-detecting dogs were withdrawn from the WTC days before 9/11. There were $200 billion worth of gold ingots kept in the basement of the Twin Towers. They disappeared some days before 9/11, apparently because ‘someone’ had prior knowledge of the attacks. An American billionaire, Larry A. Silverstein, purchased the WTC on July 24, 2001, and included ‘terrorist attack’ in its insurance policy. The shares of American Airlines and Boeing dropped dramatically due to an inordinate number of ‘put options’ being placed on them starting September 6, 2001. I’m getting ahead of myself. Osama bin Laden was secretly taken like a VIP to an American hospital in Dubai for treatment on July 4, 2001, where the local CIA chief met him. Osama started life as a CIA agent. Is he still one? American military and intelligence authorities practiced many simulated plane attacks like 9/11 before 9/11. There is no evidence of a jetliner having crashed in Pennsylvania except a hole in the ground – no parts, no wreckage, no bodies. The same goes for the plane that purportedly crashed into the Pentagon – no parts, no bodies, no nothing. The US government claims that everything was vaporised. They show that it could not have been at the heat generated and suggest that the hole in the Pentagon’s wall could have only been a cruise missile. As to the planes that hit the WTC, the calls made by passengers from mobile phones just could not have been made at those heights in those days and the recordings that have been released are manufactured, as indeed is the recently released recording from the cockpit black box of the Pennsylvania plane which claims that the passengers rushed the cockpit. If they have even a 10-second recording of someone’s voice, they can manufacture audio tapes that sound just like him – hence so many recordings of Osama and Zawaheri saying exactly what the US administration would like them to say. Many of the hijackers identified by America are alive and well and living and working in other countries – which suggests that someone took control of the planes from the ground. The WTC planes too were vaporised yet the passport of a hijacker was found virtually unscathed in the rubble. How come that was not vaporised too? There is more, much more. ‘Loose Change’ has to be seen to be believed. It will certainly leave you wondering. What about the callous deaths of so many Americans? Do you know what? Frankly my dear, they don’t give a damn. |
| Posted by:john |
| #6 It is disheartening to see how gullible and stupid my fellow humans are, though. As Honoré de Balzac said: "Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day." |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-12-24 15:20 |
| #5 Personally, I *love* conspiracy theories. They are like old Rube Goldberg machines but made of 'facts' and truthiness instead of common gadgets. It is disheartening to see how gullible and stupid my fellow humans are, though. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2006-12-24 13:00 |
| #4 I'm telling you, the sooner we create the Islamabad Crater, the better. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2006-12-24 11:24 |
| #3 It's a Conspiracy™! Deep laid, dark plots! Islam is under attack! Btw, "loose change" was very appropriately aired on prime-time on the main sat/cable french documentary channel, for the 2006 anniversary of 9/11. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-12-24 08:10 |
| #2 Allegedly General Ayub KhanÂ’s biography, Friends, Not Masters, was ghost-written by Altaf Gauhar. And Perv choose the nutcase son to write his own "autobiography"... |
| Posted by: john 2006-12-24 08:06 |
| #1 His father, Altaf Gauhar, was the PR man for another Pak dictator - General Ayub Khan |
| Posted by: john 2006-12-24 08:03 |