The most 
			amusing news this week is the Israeli rerun of a 2008 propaganda 
			story, in which Al Qaeda denounces 9/11 inquiry as conspiracy theory 
			and singles out Israel's arch enemy Iran as the worst peddler of the 
			madness, as described in the Wednesday 
			Ynetnews story, 
			
			Al-Qaeda slams Iran 'conspiracy theories'.
			Thus the Zionist/Globalist bogey man, ridiculed as Al-CIA-duh by 
			the free-thinking Internet Intelligentsia, remains the gang that not 
			only can't shoot straight, but that inevitably shoots the Muslim 
			world in the back. As a former Army Opposing Force's (OPFOR) 
			Controller, I view Al-Qaeda as a nominally red (enemy) force that 
			inevitably acts in support of blue (allied) strategic objectives. If 
			there were no Al-Qaeda, then we would have to create one to keep the 
			Global War going.
			My analysis of a Netanyahu gaffe (below) was one of many that 
			forced the first silly story, so implausible that it would make a TV 
			wrestling pitchman blush. It was reported by Haaretz as
			
			Qaida No. 2: Hezbollah started rumor that Israel planned 9/11. 
			Since the Izzys are trotting out their old stuff it serves them 
			right that I now trot out mine to take up the challenge. It was 
			originally published in The Lone Star Iconoclast on April 
			19, 2008.
			 
			
			
			Report: Netanyahu says 9/11 terror attacks good for Israel
			"We are benefiting from one 
			thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon. These 
			events swung American public opinion in our favor." -- Ha'aretz, 
			Apr. 16, 2008
			More than six years after 
			9/11, the Israel angle becomes more and more acute, and it becomes 
			harder and harder to be obtuse about it. The circumstantial case for 
			Israeli involvement in the terror attacks grows stronger with each 
			new revelation, old evasion or repeated charge of anti-Semitism 
			leveled against those who dare to ask questions.
			Netanyahu's Wednesday remarks 
			suggest that Israel had a motive in the terrorist events, but they 
			are hardly new material. Indeed, on September 11, 2001, shortly 
			after the collapse of the Twin Towers, the same Netanyahu was asked 
			by reporters how the then-fresh cataclysm would affect US/Israel 
			relations.
			"It's very good, Well, not 
			very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy."
			He wasn't the only one who had 
			reason to celebrate the terror attacks. American neocons, closely 
			aligned to Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party, had already published 
			their desire to see a "new Pearl Harbor" to catalyze American public 
			opinion for an imperial "new American Century." The document that 
			contains the "new Pearl Harbor" line, Restructuring America's 
			Defenses, was accepted by an incoming Bush administration in 
			2000. In large part it was a repetition of ideas accepted by Israeli 
			right-wingers in the 1996 document,
			
			A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.
			
			
			One Israeli Arrested, Others Detained at NY Airports.
			"The New York Times reported 
			Thursday that a group of five men had set up video cameras aimed at 
			the Twin Towers before the attack on Tuesday, and were 
			congratulating one another afterwards." -- Fox News, September 
			14, 2001
			Shortly after 9/11, Jewish 
			film director Mark Levin found that more and more New Yorkers 
			believed that Israel was behind the terror attacks. Accordingly he 
			examined the various unexplained facts and unsubstantiated rumors 
			that were fueling local public opinion in his boldly-named 
			Protocols of Zion. The documentary took its title from the 
			controversial underground political classic, The Protocols of 
			the Learned Elders of Zion, which alleged that a worldwide 
			Jewish conspiracy is the unseen force in shaping international 
			events.
			In Protocols of Zion 
			Levin addressed the notorious dancing Israelis, believed to 
			be Mossad agents, who were filming and celebrating the ongoing 
			attack on the World Trade Center when they were arrested by local 
			police. In a popular YouTube clip excerpted from the documentary, 
			three of the arrested Israelis offer a
			
			dubious explanation of their 9/11 activities on an Israeli 
			television program in November 2001.
			Shortly after 9/11, Fox News 
			investigated the forbidden topic of Israeli involvement in the 
			attacks. It abruptly took the video down shortly after airing it, 
			though, reportedly due to pressure from the Israel lobby. The 
			official government investigations that Carl Cameron's report 
			prompted were quietly dropped.
			
			
			Israeli Spy Ring
			"Since Sept. 11, more than 60 
			Israelis have been arrested or detained, either under the new 
			patriot anti-terrorism law, or for immigration violations. A handful 
			of active Israeli military were among those detained, according to 
			investigators, who say some of the detainees also failed polygraph 
			questions when asked about alleged surveillance activities against 
			and in the United States." -- Fox News, December 2001
			Every extract or quote in my 
			essay has come from a pro-Israel mainstream media source, and it's 
			difficult to see how anyone could accuse Ha'aretz, Mark 
			Levin, the Israeli 9/11 suspects or Fox News of 
			anti-Semitism. Nevertheless, for committing the thought crime of 
			putting it all together, I shall certainly be accused of 
			anti-Semitism.
			In this topsy-turvy post-9/11 
			new world order, the label "anti-Semite" is the price one pays for 
			asserting that two plus two equals four. George Orwell, that most 
			relevant of modern writers, predicted things would be like this. On 
			the other hand, it is acceptable in fact, encouraged to assert that 
			"Islamo-fascists" are capable of saying and doing all kinds of evil.
			A few days after the attacks, Osama bin Laden denied any role in 
			them:
			
			
			Bin Laden says he wasn't behind attacks
			"The US government has consistently blamed me for being behind 
			every occasion its enemies attack it. I would like to assure the 
			world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seem to have 
			been planned by people for personal reasons." -- CNN, September 
			17, 2001
			Soon afterward, the Bush 
			administration "discovered" a videotaped confession, so we wouldn't 
			have to worry whom Bin Laden was accusing of being the perpetrators. 
			Never mind that Arabic experts pronounced the videotaped to be a 
			phony. To this very day Muslims have tried to muddy the waters when 
			it comes to 9/11. Take Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for 
			example, who just Wednesday insinuated that the official US story 
			was, at best, in error:
			
			
			Report: Netanyahu says 9/11 terror attacks good for Israel
			"Four or five years ago, a 
			suspicious event occurred in New York. A building collapsed and they 
			said that 3000 people had been killed, but never published their 
			names. Under this pretext, they attacked Afghanistan and Iraq and 
			since then, a million people have been killed only in Iraq." -- 
			Ha'aretz, Apr. 16, 2008
			Without a doubt, Ahmadinejad 
			is stretching things a bit. First, the names of all 2,749 World 
			Trade Center victims were unreported only for five years -- but were 
			read on the fifth anniversary of 9/11. Further, the Bush 
			administration has not killed a million Iraqis. As of the latest 
			report by the British Lancet, it has killed a mere two thirds of a 
			million.
			After Netanyahu finished his 
			remarks about how good 9/11 has been for Israel, he launched into a 
			tirade about the evil of Iran and Ahmadinejad. Thank God we have 
			Bibi to remind us who our real enemies are.