A lie told once is lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.”
—German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels

He is arguably the most notorious person in the 21st century.

The world takes for granted that Osama bin Laden was the architect of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But why was this man singled out for this horrific crime? How did we learn of his alleged guilt?. And what evidence exists to support his guilt?

These questions are critical because the allegation against bin Laden led, less than a month later [on October 7, 2001], to the launching of the Global War on Terror with the invasion of Afghanistan. The mission called Operation Enduring Freedom, ordered by George W. Bush was specific. The intent was to capture or kill Osama bin Laden.

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Bremer names bin Laden

Just hours after the World Trade Center towers were destroyed, a man by the name of L. Paul Bremer appeared on an NBC affiliate in Washington D.C. Less than a minute into the interview with host Jim Vance, Bremer mentioned bin Laden as potentially being the mastermind of the event. It appears that the bin Laden myth was created at this point, and it soon went viral.

Who is L. Paul Bremer, and what was he doing in Washington at the time?

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Bremer, like Bush, is a graduate of Yale and, like Bush, is also a member of the notorious Skull and Bones fraternity. After leaving government in 1989, he became managing director of Kissinger Associates, a consulting firm owned by Henry Kissinger. [ It is worth noting that Henry Kissinger was the original choice to head the 9/11 Commission.]

In May 2003, following the “shock and awe” bombing of Iraq, Bremer was named director of the Coalition Provisional Authority. Without question, he was a Republican insider. He was supposed to be on his way to New York City, to his office in the North Tower of the World Trade Center, on Sept. 11 but his plane was diverted due to the events of that morning.

In addition to speculating in the interview about bin Laden’s complicity, Bremer said that “terrorists declared war on the United States, and we declared war on the terrorists.” What was this supposed to mean? Would it follow that the United States would have carte blanche to invade any country anywhere if a terrorist or terrorists were thought to be living there? Would that include Canada, Iceland, New Zealand, or France?

Bremer also said, “We can’t throw away democratic freedoms and civil liberties that are the heart of our society.”

But Americans did not throw away a thing. Their freedoms were taken by Bremer’s colleagues in the Bush administration. This happened through the passage of the Patriot Act, the creation of the Transportation Security Administration, the spying on Americans by the National Security Agency, the prosecution of whistleblowers, and the stifling our 1st and 5th Amendment rights. The list is long.

Bremer continued: “There will be consequences. In fact, I hope the most severe military consequences we can come up with.”

In this he was prescient. Using the justification of 9/11, the United States invasion of Afghanistan was followed by the invasion and destruction of Iraq, the bombing of Libya into the Stone Age, the arming and aiding of Saudi Arabia in their mission to destroy Yemen, and the instigation and perpetuation of the Syrian horror. Add in drone wars and proxy wars in God knows how many countries, and Bremer must have swelled with pride over that level of carnage.

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Bush names bin Laden

On the evening of Sept. 11, President George W. Bush addressed the nation from the Oval Office of the White House and said this: “Today was the Pearl Harbor of the 21st century. We think it’s Osama bin Laden.” For the second time on that day, without a trace of evidence, we hear the name bin Laden from a national bully pulpit.

For all intents and purposes, the Global War on Terror started on 9/11. Without a shred of evidence to support their claim, two high-profile government officials, speaking to Americans from a national bully pulpit, put Osama bin Laden in the crosshairs. He instantly became America’s public enemy number one, a faith based charge, guilty by government decree.

The accusation was further reinforced by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Baruk, who appeared on the BBC the morning of 9/11 [even before the buildings collapsed] and pointed to bin Laden and al-Qaeda as likely being behind the event. He called for the U.S. to launch “an operational concrete war on terror.”

Before the dust had settled from the destruction of the towers, Bremer and Bush, along with Baruk and the worldwide media, implicated Osama bin Laden without evidence. A little more than a week later, on Sunday, Sept. 23, Colin Powell made it official. With host Tim Russert on Meet the Press, Powell named bin Laden the architect of 9/11.

Russert asked Powell for evidence. He responded: “We are hard at work bringing all of the information together, intelligence information, law enforcement information. And I think, in the near future, we will be able to put out a white paper, a document, that will be able to describe quite clearly the evidence we have linking him [bin Laden] to this attack.” He told Russert he would make it available to him once it was completed.

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Fleischer slams the door

The day after Powell’s promise, the New York Times devoted a front page article to the evidence they believed was forthcoming citing statements by government officials that “the evidence reaches from the southern tip of Manhattan to the foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan

On Monday, Sept. 24, the day after Powell’s interview, Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer met with the media and said Powell’s statement of a white paper was “misinterpreted.” There was no plan to release the information. It is classified.”

A reporter had the audacity to ask, “Is there any plan to present to the public evidence so the average citizen, not just Americans but people all over the world, can understand the case against bin Laden”?

Fleischer’s response was predictably condescending: “In a democracy it is always important to provide the maximum amount of information possible. But I think American people understand that there are going to be times when that information cannot immediately be forthcoming.”

On one issue, Fleischer spoke truthfully: the white paper was not immediately forthcoming. In fact, it has never been forthcoming. No white paper exists in the public domain containing forensic evidence linking Osama bin Laden to the 9/11 attacks.

The arrogance, hypocrisy, and disregard for human life of this man and the entire Bush administration cannot be overstated. American troops were about to be sent to war. Many would die or be seriously injured for life.  Afghan civilians, considered collateral damage, would be killed in large numbers as always happens in war. Yet no soldier, nor any American citizen or Afghan citizen, was allowed to see the evidence justifying why the United States was about to invade one of the poorest countries in the world.

It gets worse.

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NATO classifies the evidence

The NATO alliance was formed following WWll, ostensibly to protect east European countries from naked aggression by the Soviet Union. Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty states that an attack against any member nation is an attack against all member nations. Article 5, in its entire history was never invoked until Sept. 11, 2001. It wasn’t a small NATO country that needed help; it was the United States of America, the most powerful country in the world.

On Sept. 12, 2001, NATO Secretary General Lord George Robertson summoned the North Atlantic Council to meet in Brussels. All 19 members agreed the attack on the U.S. was an attack from abroad. All Robertson needed to invoke Article 5 was the responsible party with evidence to wage war on the perpetrators. He soon got what he needed, or so he thought.

U.S. State Department representative Frank Taylor met in secret with all NATO representatives on Oct. 2, 2001 and provided documents that supposedly contained “clear and compelling” evidence of bin Laden’s guilt to the Secretary General. After the meeting, Robertson met with the press and predictably said the evidence provided by Taylor was classified. In all, 29 countries joined the U.S. in the invasion of Afghanistan, including Britain, France, and Canada. They joined in the invasion of this tiny impoverished country justified by “evidence” the public was not allowed to see.

It gets even worse.

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A revelation from the FBI

On June 5, 2006 investigative reporter Ed Haas from the Muckraker Report noticed that on bin Laden’s Most Wanted Page in the FBI files it did not include the crime of 9/11. He eventually spoke with Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity of the FBI and the exchange went like this.

Haas – “Why is there no mention of 9/11 on Osama bin Laden’s Most Wanted web page?”

Tomb – “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Osama bin Laden’s web page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.”

Haas – “How is this possible”?

Tomb – “The FBI gathers evidence. Once evidence is gathered it is turned over to the Department of Justice who then decides whether it has enough evidence to present to a grand jury. In the case of bin Laden he has not been formally indicted and charged because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.”

So how does this work? Bremer, hours after the towers collapsed blamed bin Laden. Bush, later that day blamed bin Laden. Colin Powell days later on national television claimed to have solid evidence of bin Laden’s guilt. Frank Taylor from the State department on October 2, 2001 turned over “clear and compelling evidence” of bin Laden’s guilt to the head of the Nato Alliance. Yet, the chief law enforcement agency in the United States, the FBI,  said “they have no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.” Really?

It would be remiss not to mention that a “confession video “ by bin Laden was found in Afghanistan in December 2001 that was immediately used to bolster the claim of bin Laden’s guilt. The video was soon debunked by a leading expert on bin Laden, professor Bruce Lawrence of Duke University who called the tape ‘bogus.” It also begs the question as to why, if authentic, the tape was not used on bin Laden’s Most Wanted Page in the FBI file. One also has to wonder why this evidence, unlike all the other evidence the Bush administration claimed to have in its possession, was widely disseminated to the public while the rest remained classified.   

And it gets worse yet.

Source: The world “knows” bin Laden did 9/11 – so why isn’t there any evidence?