Whether or not the legendary 28 redacted pages are made public, the pieces of the puzzle are falling into place. Pakistan's ISI and rogue (?) Saudis were directly involved in planning and financing 9/11.
The idea was/is a Saudi-led hegemony in the Muslim world, where Pakistan would preside in Central Asia. The Pentagon, CIA and FBI lied to 9/11 Commission, not only to protect their links to their own duplicitous agents, but--more importantly--to prevent the whole Saudi/ Pakistani/ US alliance from collapsing in a real Islamic revolution, a la Iran. (This is what was beginning to happen with the rise to power of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, which the Saudis sabotaged with US support.)
The US State Department was encouraging Unocal in its Afghan gas pipeline fantasy right up until 2001, gambling that the Taliban would bow to Saudi-Pakistani pressure to conform to this "grand strategy". But the US, by undermining Afghan society in the 1980s using Islam's Baader Meinhofs, had created a vacuum, a breeding ground for further terrorism. Hence, the dilemma: either the Taliban would have to buckle or the US would have to invade Afghanistan (and anywhere else it deemed a terrorist haven) after a "new Pearl Harbor".
CIA head Tenet and Richard Clarke both supported Bush's pre-9/11 plan to invade Afghanistan, and were just waiting for the go-ahead. In a White House memo a week before 9/11, Clarke wrote that he could not understand, "why we cont inue to allow the existence of large-scale al-Qaeda bases where we know people are being trained to kill Americans. You are left waiting for the big attack, with lots of casualties, after which some major US retaliation will be in order."
9/11 skeptics call this scenario LHOP (let it happen on purpose). Whether it was 100% LHOP or 50% LHOP, it just required letting the logic of history take its course.
A version of this appeared at Presstv
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