Who did 9/11?

I feel insane asking this question on the 24th anniversary of the one day that changed the world. But I feel even more insane not asking it after some mind boggling facts, not opinions, which I had completely missed before. I would be surprised to know that the facts I am about to write were things you already knew.

After 9/11, the FBI and the CIA started capturing suspects from around the world and kept them at unknown detention centres around the world. These suspects were waterboarded, sleep-deprived and subjected to other forms of cruel torture so as to extract out the answer to two basic questions: Where is the next attack happening and where is Bin Laden? Many US citizens were caught in this cruel interrogation dragnet.

However, I just came across a shocking reality. A popular American noisemaker named Alex Jones had predicted in July 2001 that planes would be flown into the World Trade Center and Al Qaeda would be blamed for it. The CIA or the FBI somehow never went to him to ask him a simple question: how did you know all this with such precise detail? Beats me.

We came of age in the age of the internet and online access to past and present news. However, in my years of reading countless books about this one topic, I have never come across anything that talked about the noise building up in the news during the months before 9/11. There was a popular show called The X Files, which I am sure many of you readers know about. It had a spin off show called The Lone Gunmen.

In an episode of that show aired in March 2001, six months before 9/11, the story is that some criminal group in the US government has hijacked a jumbo jet plane and is planning to fly it into the World Trade Center and for all this to be blamed on some foreign terrorist group so that a pretext can be created for the US to launch a war in the Middle East. Sounds eerie yet? Wait for it. Get this: the maker of the show Chris Carter said that the CIA came to him with the plot and script of the episode and requested to include it in the show. And he said he had no idea why the CIA did this.

The news stories during those days, which none of us bothered to look into, talked about things such as what the United States would do if thousands or even millions of Americans die in a terrorist attack. There were also bits and pieces of noise emanating from these controlled media houses that something big was about to happen and the world was going to change. And then it all actually happens. Alex Jones explained that he was able to predict the 9/11 attacks based on the noise building up in the media at the time, including the TV show mentioned above.

Perhaps the TV show and the noise in the news media were all designed to achieve what is called subliminal perception, to install the seeds inside the minds of the American people that a massive terrorist attack on US soil would have some foreign terror group behind and more importantly, the US invading foreign lands afterwards would be the right thing to do, so that when that day does actually come, the American people would react exactly how the US government wants it to react.

One fact that has mentally disturbed me to this day is that Bin Laden had initially denied involvement in 9/11 attacks.

I remember September 12, 2001. I walked up to my college only to find out that it was closed because of an attack that happened in America. On my way back in a horse-drawn carriage (taanga), the driver of the carriage was very clear that this attack was done by the Americans. I have ever since dismissed all these conspiracy theories. Looking back now, that taangay-wala doesn't sound so illogical to me.