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Summary: great book
Review: this is a powerful, well researched document. it puts to rest the impossible story that has been used as a justification for bush and his regime to attempt to re-institute naked colonialism against the world.i'm curious what motivates the reviewer who said claimed this book "didn't do its homework." to say "The New York Press (a free weekly newspaper that I never heard of until I read this book) is a prime source of the "facts" the author uses as the foundation for his conclusions" is a outright lie. this book cites everything, from the wall street journal, the new york times and other "mainstream" newspapers, to Zbigniew Brezezinski, to interviews with pilots, politicians and other experts. read this book.
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Summary: Chilling, informative, and thought-provoking
Review: The War On Freedom: How And Why America Was Attacked September 11, 2001 by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed (Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development, Brighton, United Kingdom) is a powerful and meticulously researched reconstruction of the background of events and the motivations of participants leading up to and following the infamous September 11 attacks on America. Numerous quotes and excerpts form the foundation of this carefully reasoned analysis of the recent history of the Taliban and Osama bin Ladin; fallout from the so-called "war on terrorism"; as well as a harrowing prediction of overly concentrated power in the United States leading to the rise of a new type of governmental fascism at home. Chilling, informative, and thought-provoking, The War On Freedom is very highly recommended reading and a welcome contribution to the growing library of information on contemporary international terrorism.
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Summary: A quirky sense of humor helps
Review: I have read this book. Perhaps I can help you decide whether it would be worth your money. Let's start with the "Executive Summary", which is at the front of the book, wherein we find that the Bush administration has "unlimited war powers, free from Congressional accountability." As the next paragraph explains, "In the U.S. this has been accompanied by unprecidented curbs on civil liberties and basic human rights, the crushing of domestic dissent, and the criminalization of legitimate protest." No, these folks are not talking about a stroll through an airport. A bit further on, the author quotes approvingly, "The U.S. role in culturing extremism while establishing the network of Afghan fighters who later went on to form various warring factions was particularly crucial and damaging. As already noted, the U.S. support of the mujahideen involved inculcating extremist religious "war values", garbled with Islamic jargon." About the Taliban, which the author is at great pains to describe as bad, "America and Russia bear primary responsibility for the state of war which plagues Afghanistan...Meaningful pressure that could have been exerted upon the Taliban to change its policies was simply avoided." I have not chosen quirky bits. In essence, all the bad stuff is the fault of the U.S. Government, and most of it intentional. It's big oil, Bush family greed, we didn't really want to shoot down the hijacked planes, bin Laden was thick with the CIA and Bush, and on, and on. If you have information and experience beyond this book, and have a quirky sense of humor, or like to watch people try to spin you, this is Five Stars. If you want to taste the polemic diet of Muslims in Manchester or Amsterdam (and God help us, New York), this is a Five Star meal. I don't recommend it.
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Summary: Is Offical Inquiry Impossible?
Review: Essential information on United States politics, and valuable for the preservation of liberty. Thoroughly documented from very widespread sources both mainstream and "fugitive"-now the internet. I venture critical comment, however slight. In places the study is maddeningly over-written. Nafeez Ahmed will restate key items of information several times in new variations with slight shifts in emphasis or content. He is sufficiently honest to remain unsure of the correct relationships of facts, or of the facts' accuracy, or of their ramifying implications, such that he repeatedly calls for full official inquiries into topics he admits he cannot fully fathom as an independent scholar, but which he nevertheless concludes evince official infamy. It is as though he is describing with a scientific scholar's analytical intellect a water-filled Christmas snowing figurine that he has picked up and whose poison snow swirls tantalizingly around blurred shapes that disappear and reappear in variations at each shake. It is to his credit that the written variations treating the facts as he derives them from his sources are invariably fruitful, though which, if any, catch an elusive truth dead on cannot be known. Ahmed could have ascertained his priorities before writing, but the polemic that likely would have resulted would have been false and a turn-off. On the other hand, his tentatively ruminative approach may be inherent in a topic necessitating speculation and conjecture in the face of secrecy and duplicity. That the facts have so quickly become as well established as they are is amazing in itself--Ahmed's presentation of them is exhaustive, well-structured, and by-and-large convincing. This leads to the sad question of the loss of confidence in institutional authority. Will demonstrations of its moral vacuity that books such as this present lead to insurrection? Will social elements of responsibility prevail through reason and dialogue in the face of violence?
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Summary: 9-11
Review: Treason has been commited against the constitution and every democracy loving American, for the sake of power and money.
Comparing the actions of the right wing over the past several presidencies, but most particularly this administration and
the info in this book and you will get a chilling picture of
what the oligarchs have in store for us. Time to take action
Vote against them all. Lefts& rights feed at the same
corporate trough.
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Summary: A powerful analysis of what allowed 9-11 to occur
Review: This book is an absolutely necessary read for every American, and in fact everyone worldwide. Before ANYTHING else is done, politically or militarily, the information in this book must become part of the dialogue. If every Senator does not read this BEFORE voting for a 9-11 independent inquiry, IT WOULD BE A TRAVESTY FOR JUSTICE and America.
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Summary: Eye-opener
Review: If you ever feel that there's something missing from what you've been told on the airwaves of today's media.(cnn,nbc,abc,fox,cbs,etc.) You owe it to yourself to read this book . Don't you think that the truth has to be found, not given? Hope you enjoy this book, I was shocked, but I feel that I know the truth, not lies.
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Summary: The Worst Piece of "Journalism" Ever Published
Review: First, let me qualify my position on the premise of this book - I agree that there is ample anecdotal evidence of the Bush administration's fore-knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, and its failure to respond to the hijackings per established procedures is consistent with other theories regarding the true significance of this event. Having said that, I found it almost impossible to isolate the facts from the conclusions, opinions and quotes that the author uses liberally to bolster his theory: 1) Reviewers of his book were also sources and contributors. 2) The New York Press (a free weekly newspaper that I never heard of until I read this book) is a prime source of the "facts" the author uses as the foundation for his conclusions. 3) Without any substantiation, the author states early in the book that a failure to intercept a hijacked plane had never occured in the history of the U.S. This is a fundamental premise for his subsequent conclusions. As someone who is sympathetic to the premise of this book, I was hoping for a professional treatment of a possible "alternative" interpretation of 9/11. This is not the book - it only gives the American right a legitimate basis for downplaying its detractors as irresponsible. Try Ahmed Rashid's work (dry, but credible), or if you still like it served up in a neat package, the authors of Fordbidden Truth at least did their own homework.
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Summary: Save a Life
Review: The War On Freedom by Ahmed is the definitive, thoroughly researched indictment of the Bush Adminstration as accessories to the murder (on Sept. 11, 2001) of thousands of Americans . Read it; you will be convinced. Tell others about it. Force it into the hands of your Congressional representatives. The life you save could be your own!
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Summary: The "Pelican Brief" of the 9-11 Terror Attacks
Review: This is the book that the Senators and Congressman need to be reading as well as every Citizen. I just finished it and the documentation itself is thorough and meticulous from reliable and mainstream sources. What this book does is look at the events of 9-11 in context of the foreign policy objectives of the US as stated by planners and officials. It looks at official govt intelligence and media reports on Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden and Afghanistan; its relationship with US energy policy in light of the quest for oil dominance after the fall of the Soviet Union. It puts you in the rooms with planners and the thinkers in the US government and forces you to hear what they say and how the external threat of Al-Qaeda serves an important economic and political role in achieving global American primacy and in establishing greater domestic control and foriegn policy consensus in an increasingly multicultural society. Then it looks at the intelligence prior to the attack, what we really knew(this alone is worth it buying; you won't see this anywhere else, "one word" in particular). It looks at how the September 11 attack unfolded, and how our governments reacted, in light of standard security and intelligence procedures which were not followed. The reading is crisp and coherent and the analysis is brillant. To rational and thoughful people, some very troubling questions are raised that need to be answered. This is the most thorough, comprehensive and unbiased book on the 9-11 attacks. It reminds me of the "Darby Shaw/Pelican" brief, only its real. It asks the right questions, lets the facts speak for themselves and gives some very controversial but credible answers. I recommend it highly for school teachers, students, activists, concerned citizens, serious readers and government officials. A must read. Not to have read this book is to have courted genuine ignorance about the true nature of the September 11 attacks and what it means. It is a testament to a free society that such a revealing, yet unsettling book was written in such troubling times. Yet it is a sign of the need to critically question our governments and hold ourselves and our officials accountable for what we do in the name of freedom and democracy around the world. after reading this book, I am reminded of Benjamin Franklin's warning, we should remember never to sacrifice our freedoms in exchange for security; those who do deserve neither since our security is only guaranteed by our freedoms. The fate of our democracy and republic depends upon it.
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