Clark writes that Iraq has been a target of CIA activity for years and that in order to justify the Gulf War, the CIA worked to provoke Iraq to invade Kuwait. The official spin was that Iraq caused the Gulf War by invading Kuwait. The American people were never told that our own CIA provoked the invasion. The details surrounding the September 11 crime remain shrouded in mystery. Authorities are probing the European business associations of a Venice flight school owner, whose school at the Venice airport trained the nucleus of foreign national terrorist pilots, looking for possible links to international organized crime groups, reported by the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday to be laundering large sums of drug money for major terrorist organizations.
Organized crime is said to launder billions for terrorists.
After eight years as vice president, George Bush was making a run for the Oval Office. But quite a few journalists kept asking whether he was a tough enough man for the job. Yes, what happened on September 11 was horrifying, but it was a criminal act and not an act of war. There is little that has not already been said about the events of September 11, but I was struck by the irony of one happy omission. The Bush administration has vowed that it will not aim the Pentagon's firepower at civilian targets in Afghanistan.