Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, author/political scientist Dr Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, and author Ian Henshall were invited by Reinvestigate 911 to address Members of Parliament in England about the urgent task of setting up a new independent investigation into the events on September 11, 2001. The evidence they presented in the meeting centered on government foreknowledge of the attacks, and the insufficient findings of the 9/11 Commission Report, which were based on information gathered from torture of detainees.
Dr. Ahmed emphasized that nine years later after the tragic events, the public understanding of 9/11 is still very minimal, saying, "we actually don't really know what happened on 9/11." He also highlighted the critical point that the official 9/11 Commission report "was rejected outright by many of the 9/11 families." Dr. Ahmed concluded his speech by reminding attendees that the world still remains largely in the dark about the nitty–gritty details of the events that transpired on 9/11, and cautioned against proclaiming wild conspiracy theories because nobody knows the truth, except those few who organized and committed the crimes:
[Rough transcript of Dr. Ahmed's speech from 5:00 - 7:05 in part 2 of the video listed below]In her presentation, Cynthia McKinney brought up the fact that 9/11 has been used as the justification for both the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. In June of 2009, President Barack Obama urged in his address to the Muslim world at Cairo University that the United States was not the aggressor in the War on Terror:
The one thing I kind of want to add, and close on, at this point, really, is how we address these issues and some of the issues that Ian was saying about is it an inside job, or is it not an inside job? Where do we stand, ...For me, I think the issue of this kind of binary kind of divide between, you know, did the Bush administration do it? Did Islamic terrorists do it? And there's also questions about Al Qaeda and Islamic terrorists, which you know, we'll probably talk about in the evening session. For me, this divide is an artificial one, it's a construct which has been created by the very thing that you have, you have conspiracy theorists and you have people who are against conspiracy theorists, you have so-called "truthers" and so called "debunkers."
This whole thing, we need to come out of this constructed divide, and focus on, in my view, fundamentally on what we know, and ask really hard questions about those issues, because it's clear that we cannot establish a paper trail on either side, we can't really prove, .it's clear the government hasn't really proved its case about the hijackers, for example, they haven't proved their case about Osama Bin Laden, clearly. We also haven't been able to prove a case. There's no paper trail, which says that this particular individual gave an order on this day that allowed the planes to [...]. We have no way of establishing that. But what we can do is build up a picture, which establishes that what were supposed to be told isn't the absolute truth, which is now underpinning this whole narrative of the War on Terror, just does not stand up to scrutiny. It's completely false. And that leaves us in a state in a complete limbo, where we really don't know.
And I think it's admitting that we don't know is for us a strength, it will undercut the statements of the debunkers who kind of focus very much on very specific things, and they say "well, you accept this theory, and you say that theory",.[...] But we're much stronger if we focus less on those particular interpretations, and focus on the contradictions and anomalies.
I'm aware that there are still some who would question or even justify the events of 9/11. But let us be clear, Al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 people on that day. The victims were innocent men, women, and children from America and many other nations who had done nothing to harm anybody. And yet, Al Qaeda chose to ruthlessly murder these people, claimed credit for the attack, and even now states their determination to kill on a massive scale. They have affiliates in many countries, and are trying to expand they're reach. These are not opinions to be debated. These are facts to be dealt with.Such statements are similar to those that former President Bush made in his address to the United Nations in November 2001:
We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty.That "we must speak the truth about terror," is exactly what Cynthia McKinney, Dr. Ahmed, and others are doing across America, and the world. And we must speak the truth because what happened on 9/11 matters to everything that is going on right now, it has developed a life of its own. It is a lie that has been used to spread terror to the Middle East, and around the world, so what happened on that fateful day "is not the past," as McKinney says. The effects of 9/11 will be with us until we face up to the truth that what we were told, and continue to be told, is a big lie. As long as that fact remains hidden, we are not free human beings, but live at the mercy of a criminal and secret ruling elite.
McKinney also made the point that Barack Obama has signed onto "war crimes, and crimes against humanity." She then added that along with President Obama, the Bush Administration, and the United States government, "the American people are complicit in these crimes against humanity, and war crimes, and crimes against the peace, because of September 11."
Seeking to bring together the 9/11 truth community and the peace community, McKinney said, "there needs to be someway in which people who are interested in peace, MPs who want peace, should also, must, also say that an investigation into exactly what happened on September 11 is necessary." She followed those remarks by saying, "the United States is now on the brink. We are on the brink...of collapse."
Dr. Ahmed is the author of The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation And The Anatomy Of Terrorism, and The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001.
Ian Henshall is the author of 9/11: The New Evidence, and a coordinator of Reinvestigate 9/11.
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