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When Barack Obama was still in office, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, one of the
perpetrators of the 9/11 terror attacks, penned a letter to him. Though a
judge recently ruled that letter could be sent to the White House before the
outgoing president left office, the contents were to be withheld from the
public until a month later - until after President Trump had assumed power.
This week, the Miami Herald obtained and published the contents of the 18-
page letter, originally written in 2015 and titled “LETTER FROM THE CAPTIVE
MUJAHID KHALID SHAIKH MOHAMMAD TO THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE, BARACK OBAMA, THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE COUNTRY OF OPPRESSION AND
TYRANNY.” It contains the Kuwait-born Pakistani terrorist’s insights into
why 9/11 occurred, as well as surprisingly accurate assessments of American
politics.
One of the main reasons for 9/11, according to Mohammed, is one terrorists
have referenced before: American foreign policy. His explanation is rooted
both in history and in current affairs.
“The American people were misled by the Johnson administration and the
Pentagon into waging a war in Vietnam that cost 58,000 U.S. lives and
millions of Vietnamese lives and ultimately led to a humiliating defeat,”
he writes, correctly referencing Johnson’s false flag attack in the Gulf of
Tonkin, which the Democratic president used to push the U.S. into a
prolonged, messy, and ultimately failed war.
Mohammed also focused on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and the
Muslim world specifically, providing a long list of reasons why the “U.S.
reaped what it sowed on 9/11.” One of those grievances was the U.S.
government and CIA’s scheme to back and support “the Indonesian dictator
Suharto when his army-led massacres slaughtered hundreds of thousands of
landless farmers,” though his examples span the globe.
He cites America’s notorious desire for oil, referencing when the U.S.
built “military bases in the Arabian Peninsula in Tabuk, Dhahran, Bahrain,
Kuwait, Oman, and U.A.E – which is prohibited by Sharia laws – to secure a
non-stop flood of oil to [their] country at the cheapest price.” He argues
this was “to support the dictatorial rule of monarchial families and
oppressive, corrupt, dynastic regimes and looting the wealth of the Muslim
Ummah population; and to accomplish [U.S.] military objectives there.”
He references the CIA’s 1953 coup in Iran — conducted in conjunction with
their British intelligence counterparts — to overthrow the country’s
democratically elected leader and empower the “Shah of Iran and Safak, the
brutal Iranian intelligence agency, for 40 years.”
Discussing Iraq in the 1990s, he references “when Anglo-Saxon crusaders
imposed sanctions against the Iraqi people in a manner of collective
punishment that resulted in the death of half a million civilians.” He
later addresses former U.N. ambassador Madeleine Albright’s claim that the
deaths of half a million children were “worth it.”
Mohammed also points out hypocrisies in American foreign policy, such as the
American officials’ ties to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad before they
wanted to oust him. He also points out that before invading Iraq, the U.S.
“supported Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War, even when he was using
poison mustard gas against the Kurds…”
Mohammed discusses at length the centuries of Western attacks on Muslims and
their countries, also noting the way Western countries broke up formerly
Ottoman nations in the early 20th century, dividing them up and claiming
control in the region.
He circles back to indict the whole of American foreign policy, noting the U
.S. has escaped prosecution for their “brutal and savage massacres against
the American Indian and [their] crimes in Vietnam, Korea, Tokyo, Hiroshima,
Nagasaki, Dresden, and Latin America; and for [their] support for the
Chinese Dictator, Chiang Kai-Shek, and Mexico’s dictator, Santa Ana.”
“You can keep your military bases in Japan, Germany, Italy, and elsewhere,
” he writes, “but Muslim land will never accept infidels army bases in
their land.” He credits Allah with helping them fight back against Western
aggression, frequently weaving in religious sentiments as justification for
further violence.
Though Mohammed focuses largely on U.S. imperialism, one of his main
grievances is the U.S. government’s support for Israel throughout the
decades. He argues America reaped what it sowed on 9/11 in part because of
America’s backing of Israel “in the political arena, when you blocked
resolutions in the United Nations Security Council more than 45 times to
protect repeated Israeli crimes.” Mohammed cites the U.S.’ support for
Israel’s invasions of Lebanon throughout the years, ultimately arguing that
jihadists fight for all oppressed Muslims. He claims they represent
Palestinians and others who have been crushed by Western influence and
invasion (of course, it is impossible to prove all victimized Muslims
support terrorism as recourse, making this claim rather grandiose).
He discusses Obama’s ongoing efforts to continue providing weaponry to
Israel even as the former president openly questioned Israeli settlements.
“While your children may play safely in the White House backyard, the
entire world is watching your weapons kill Palestinian children at play on
the Gaza beach during Holy Month of Ramadan or studying in their classrooms.”
Mohammed criticizes American politicians’ repeated claims that Israel “has
a right to defend itself.”
“Why can’t you or any American president before you say that the
Palestinians have a right to defend themselves against Israeli crimes?” he
wonders. “The answer is very clear but you can’t say it because your lords
will be very angry.” Indeed, Israel wields significant influence over
American policy.
The notion that American politicians are beholden to higher powers is echoed
throughout the letter, but not just with regard to Israel’s influence
through lobbying organization AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs
Committee). With surprising accuracy, Mohammed details corporate influence
throughout government. Early in the letter, he points out that politicians
must serve their donors, whether they are in the healthcare industry, the
prison industry, or “Blackwater, Halliburton, or any other arms industry of
weapons firm.” He says the latter industry requires politicians “to push
the DoD and U.S. soldiers into more wars…”
He condemns American capitalism and the farce of democracy throughout the
letter, referring to politicians as mercenaries working for their financiers
. He asserts that “[i]n the end, this will lead the rich to grow richer and
the poor to grow poorer. The country will sink into debt and finally the
nation will die.”
Mohammed also singles out Obama, citing his drone strikes, which killed
countless innocent civilians and children. He condemns Obama’s
assassination of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki without trial — followed
by the killing of his 16-year-old son — as well as the president’s
establishment of indefinite detention and his failure to close Guantanamo,
where Mohammed has been imprisoned for years.
He calls out Western media, as well.
“Don’t let Fox, CNN, BBC, or American and pro-Israeli channels cover your
eyes because they never show the truth, their main task is brainwashing,”
he argues. “They are experts at lying and distorting the facts to achieve
their masters’ ends.”
(Instead, he praises Al-Jazeera, which is, in fact, a news agency originally
funded by the oil-rich Qatari government, an ally of the United States.)
Since 9/11, the political establishment’s narrative has asserted Islamic
terrorists target the United States because they hate us for our freedom,
because their religion is violent, and because they are hellbent on
destroying anyone who disagrees with their ideology. While it’s
indisputable that anyone who would seek to kill 3,000 civilians is a cold-
blooded murderer, his explanation has been echoed by terrorists before; the
Charlie Hebdo shooters, the Boston Marathon bombers, and the Orlando night
club shooter all referenced violent, imperialistic American policy as
reasons for their attacks.
Mohammed concludes:
“If your government and public won’t tolerate 9/11, then how can you ask
Muslims to tolerate your 60 years of crimes in Palestine, Lebanon, the
Arabian Peninsula and the whole Muslim World?”
As former congressman and longtime non-interventionist Dr. Ron Paul warned
in 1998 — long before 9/11:
“Far too often, the bombing of declared (or concocted) enemies, whether it
’s the North Vietnamese, the Iraqis, the Libyans, the Sudanese, the
Albanians, or the Afghans, produces precisely the opposite effect to what is
sought. It kills innocent people, creates more hatred toward America,
unifies and stimulates the growth of the extremist Islamic movement and
makes them more determined than ever to strike back with their weapon of
choice – terror.” |
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