Press Release:
Monday 23 January
Oxford Union Society: “Was 911 a Conspiracy”
Today one of the world’s most famous debating forums will consider the taboo
question at the heart of the war on terror. Is the official Washington story
of the 911 attacks correct, or is 911 a myth created by Washington’s
military industrial complex to justify a generation of lucrative wars?
The Oxford Union has invited 911 sceptics David Shayler and Annie Machon,
both ex-MI5 officers, Ian Henshall co-author of non-fiction best-seller 911
Revealed, and risk analyst Bill Durodié to discuss whether the attacks
occurred in anything like the way the mainstream Washington news
organisations claim.
Ian Henshall said today:
After the WMD fiasco, newsrooms have so far been unwilling to ask whether
they were duped by their intelligence sources over 911 as well. So much
evidence has been seized by the US authorities and never made public that it
is impossible to say for sure how the 911 attacks happened. There are now
several versions of the official story which stand in open conflict with
each other. Many believe the attacks were manipulated or allowed to succeed
and quite a lot of evidence has leaked out to support this.
Notes
for more details of this evening’s forum and the Oxford Union contact
details see
http://www.oxford-union.org/termcard.php?PHPSESSID=babb6829c6917b573094c3304
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Ian Henshall can be contacted on 01273 326862 daytime. His book 911 revealed
co-authored with Rowland Morgan was given favourable reviews in the Daily
Mail and the Sunday Times, but although it is a non-fiction best-seller it
has so far been ignored by the mainstream broadcast media, despite their
legal obligation to due impartiality.
The official 911 story has never been tested in a court of law, while
crucial evidence has been seized by the FBI and ferociously withheld from
the media, and even from the families of the victims. The official 911
Commission whas been denounced even by pro-war Republican Senators after it
emerged last year that alleged 911 ringleader Mohammed Atta had been known
to the US authorities prior to 911, contrary to the assertions of the
Commission’s final report. Recently Senator Barbara Boxer stated that the
truth of the 911 attacks must be pursued wherever it leads.
Since the 911 attacks internet sites, books and alternative news media have
criticised the official conspiracy theory which holds that the attacks were
carried out by a highly skilled terrist cell acting on the under the orders
of mastermind Osama Bin Laden. Some hold that the attacks were a Pentagon
organised hoax along the lines of the documented Pentagon 1960′s plan
Operation Northwoods. This which would have used a drone aircraft to fake a
shootdown of a passenger airliner over Cuba and create the pretext for a US
invasion.
Most 911 sceptics however hold that elements in the US government took over
one of Osama Bin Laden’s many half-baked plans, made sure it worked and
possibly embellished it by a fake attack on the Pentagon’s only unoccupied
section or controlled demolitions of the three World Trade Centre buildings.
They cite the anthrax attacks purporting to be from Al Qaeda which
heightened the war panic in 2001. The anthrax terror, aimed at Senators who
were questioning the 911 war plans, was quickly forgotten after being traced
to US biowarfare laboratories.
911 sceptics say it is absolutely predictable that with war looming against
Iran and the Republicans facing meltdown in the midterms another fuzzy
audiotape should have emerged last week with new threats from Osama Bin
Laden, the man who US troops allowed to escape from Afghanistan. Even on CNN
commentators recently agreed that the language purporting to come from Bin
Laden is now quite different from his original statements. Software exists
which, given a sample of a voice, can generate new speech apparently spoken
by the same person.
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All comment is written in a strictly personal capacity.
From Ian Henshall, co-author 911 Revealed, publisher of Crisis Newsletter
and www.911dossier.co.uk. He is also proprietor of Coffee Plant
(www.coffee.uk.com) and chair of INK, the trade organisation for the UK
alternative print media (www.ink.uk.com).