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This article appears in the January 25, 2001 issue of Executive Intelligence Review. 

Opposition to `Osama Did It': 
Impact of LaRouche's Thesis 

by Paul Gallagher 

With what Lyndon LaRouche called "the policies of Sept. 11" now the subject of
increasing American debate over what to do next, a growing number of leading
observers around the world are publicly challenging the "Osama did it" story
underlying those policies so far. 

There is only one problem with the Osama explanation: No matter how uniformly
media and governments repeat it, swear to it, and add more and more tertiary
details to it, it nonetheless couldn't have happened that way. The security,
intelligence, and military-air command services of the United States could not have
slept innocently while an assortment of Islamic militantsâ€”of the type monitored
intensively in the United States by security services for a decadeâ€”carried out a
much-warned of precision airborne attack on critical American sites, which the Soviet
special services, in their heyday, could not have attempted. 

Using the official media fairy-story of Sept. 11 as their touchstone, the powerful
faction typified by Zbigniew Brzezinski is pushing for the imperial elimination of
national sovereignty all over the world, and the Sharon government in Israel is
pushing for general religious war in the Mideast. So, the growing opposition to the
"Osama bin Laden did it" line is important. The rallying-point for this opposition has
been the international activities, statements, and analyses of Lyndon LaRouche
since September, including his authoritative "Zbigniew Brzezinski and September
11," published on Jan. 11 by EIR. 

From Africa to Europe 

Former South African resistance leader and President, Nelson Mandela, announced
a high-profile and deeply considered "about-face on bin Laden," reported first on
South Africa's News24 television on New Year's Day. Mandela repudiated and
apologized for his former, controversial statement holding Osama bin Laden and
al-Qaeda responsible for the attacks, as "one-sided and over-stated." He said he
would be arranging meetings with Muslim leaders in South Africa to personally
convey this messageâ€”called by News24 a "highly unusual" reversal of view by the
most widely respected of African leaders. "We are also writing to President Bush,"
Mandela announced, "to appropriately qualify the view we previously expressed to
him in person and in correspondence." 

In another African power, Egypt, the rejection of the official Sept. 11 story by
President Hosni Mubarak (an experienced military pilot) is a view shared by much of
Egypt's population. On Jan. 5, the University of Cairo's Center for Asian Studies held
a seminar on "Who Committed the Sept. 11 Attacks, and Why?" The Center's
director, Prof. Mohammed Selim, introduced Muriel Mirak-Weissbach of EIR's
Wiesbaden bureau as the featured speaker. She presented Lyndon LaRouche's
analysis that the attacks constituted an attempted coup d'Ã©tat against the U.S.
government, involving rogue elements of the American military and security
apparatus who share the view of Brzezinski's circles. Mrs. Mirak-Weissbach stressed
the desperate need to get "imperial control" over an uncontrollable global economic
breakdown, as the motivation of the coup's powerful backers. 

At the same Cairo conference, an important analysis was put forward by Brig. Gen.
Dr. Mahmoud Khalaf of Egypt's Higher Military Academy; he is also a fellow of the
British Royal Institute for Home Defense and member of the Scientific Association of
the U.S. Army. 

General Khalaf said that in the Sept. 11 attacks, "we are confronted with a technical
operation of extremely great dimensions. We estimate that the planning organ for
this operation must have consisted of at least 100 specialized technicians, who
needed one year for planning. Each stage of this operation has many details, and
every single technical detail needs measures, which are called 'deception,' and
camouflaging, against around ten specialized organs in the United States which are
called the 'Intelligence Community.' We will not say the CIA, but we will say the DIA,
which is the Defense Intelligence Agency. The DIA has highly qualified technical
capability.... I will not exaggerate and say it can monitor every single square meter of
the planet audio-visually at any momentâ€”[and] the agency called the National
Security Agency.... Yes, there was a penetration of the security system and the U.S.
Armed Forces." 

General Khalaf presented to the conference a detailed, virtually minute-by-minute
military expert's analysis of the attacks; he emphasized the contradiction between
the great confusion and inaction of the U.S. military and security services for hours,
that fact that President Bush could not return to Washington, and that the Executive
could not clearly characterize what was happening; and the fact that who had
presumably done itâ€”Osama bin Ladenâ€”was nevertheless being announced
everywhere within less than two hours. 

Other Egyptian experts concurred, and a former Foreign Minister reported meeting,
in Canada, with senior European bankers in September, who told him they believed
"Americans" had done the attacks "because of the economic crisis prior to Sept. 11."


But an even more forceful rejection of the official "Osama" story came from a senior
figure in Germany's establishment, Andreas von BÃ*low. 

Intelligence Professional:
`Brzezinski, the Mad Dog' 

Von BÃ*low's statements were highlighted in an interview, entitled "What Did The
Insider Know?" in the German daily Tagesspiegel on Jan. 13. The newspaper, while
argumentatively disagreeing with him, made clear that von BÃ*low was "already in
the 1970s State Secretary in the [German] Defense Ministry; in 1993 you were the
Social Democratic Party speaker in the Schalck-Golodkowski investigation
committee"â€”the German version of the Iran-Contra investigation, and far more
serious and sensitive than that conducted by the U.S. Senate. This investigation
required von BÃºlow to know about the operations of intelligence services of the
United States, as well as Western and Eastern Europe. 

Said von BÃ*low of Sept. 11: "With the help of the horrifying attacks, the Western
mass democracies were subjected to brainwashing. The enemy image of
anti-communism doesn't work anymore; it is to be replaced by peoples of Islamic
belief. They are accused of having given birth to suicidal terrorism." Challenged on
his use of the term "brainwashing," he added: "The idea of the enemy image doesn't
come from me. It comes from Zbigniew Brzezinski and Samuel Huntington, two
policymakers of American intelligence and foreign policy. Already in the middle of the
1990s, Huntington believed, people in Europe and the United States needed
someone they could hateâ€”this would strengthen their identification with their own
society. And Brzezinski, the mad dog, as adviser to President Jimmy Carter,
campaigned for the exclusive right of the U.S. to seize all the raw materials of the
world, especially oil and gas." 

The events of Sept. 11, von BÃ*low told Tagesspiegel, "fit perfectly in the concept of
the armaments industry, the intelligence agencies, the whole
military-industrial-academic complex. This is in fact conspicuous. The huge raw
materials reserves of the former Soviet Union are now at their disposal, also the
pipeline routes.... 

"I can state," he said of the planned irregular warfare attacks on the World Trade
Center, Pentagon, and perhaps the White House, "the planning of the attacks was
technically and organizationally a master achievement. To hijack four huge airplanes
within a few minutes, and within one hour, to drive them into their targets, with
complicated flight maneuvers! This is unthinkable, without years-long support from
secret apparatuses of the state and industry." 

Von BÃ*low concluded on this point by insisting, "I know a lot of people, including
very influential ones, who agree with me, but only in whispers, never publicly." This
includes not only the Social Democratic Party circles of former federal Chancellor
Helmut Schmidt, who share von BÃ*low's assessment of what Brzezinski represents.


'Search for the Truth' 

Such circles' assessment of the "policies of Sept. 11" is worth quoting from the same
interview with von BÃ*low: 

Tagesspiegel: How did you get the idea that there could be a link between the
attacks and the American intelligence agencies? 

Von BÃ*low: Do you remember the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993? 

Tagesspiegel: Six people were killed, and over a thousand wounded, by a bomb
explosion. 

Von BÃ*low: In the middle was the bomb-maker, a former Egyptian officer. He had
pulled together some Muslims for the attack. They were snuck into the country by
the CIA, despite a State Department ban on their entry. At the same time, the leader
of the band was an FBI informant. And he made a deal with the authorities: At the
last minute, the dangerous explosive material would be replaced by a harmless
powder. The FBI did not stick to the deal. The bomb exploded, so to speak with the
knowledge of the FBI. The official story of the crime was quickly found: The criminals
were evil Muslims. 

Tagesspiegel: At the time Soviet soldiers marched into Afghanistan, you were in the
Cabinet of Helmut Schmidt. What was it like? 

Von BÃ*low: The Americans pushed for trade sanctions, they demanded the boycott
of the Olympic games in Moscow.... And today we know: It was the strategy of the
American security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, to destabilize the Soviet Union from
neighboring Muslim countries: They lured the Russians into Afghanistan, and then
prepared for them a hell on earth, their Vietnam. With decisive support of the U.S.
intelligence agencies, at least 30,000 Muslim fighters were trained in Afghanistan
and Pakistan, a bunch of good-for-nothings and fanatics who were, and still are
today, ready for anything. And one of them is Osama bin Laden. I wrote years ago:
"It was out of this brood, that the Taliban grew up in Afghanistan, who had been
brought up in the Koran schools financed by American and Saudi funds, the Taliban
who are now terrorizing the country and destroying it.... 

Tagesspiegel: What do you think of the bin Laden films? 

Von BÃ*low: When one is dealing with intelligence services, one can imagine
manipulations of the highest quality. Hollywood could provide these techniques. I
consider the videos inappropriate as evidence. 

This senior German intelligence professional concluded the interview pungently: "My
task is concluded by saying, it could not have been that way [according to the official
story]. Search for the truth!"

Official 9.11 Story Unravelling

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