Germans Support Claims That The US Government Staged and Plotted 911

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Germans Support Claims That US Plotted 911




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Germans Support Claims
That US Plotted 911
"If what I say is right, the whole US government
should end up behind bars."
By Kate Connolly
The Telegraph - UK
10-17-3

BONN -- A former cabinet minister is drawing huge crowds and stoking the fires of anti-Americanism in Germany with a book arguing that the US government mounted the Sept 11 attacks as part of a plot to win global domination.

Andreas von Bulow has gone even further than Michael Meacher, Britain's former environment minister, who claims the US knowingly failed to prevent the attacks.

Von Bulow, 66, believes that Sept 11 was staged to justify the subsequent wars on Afghanistan and Iraq.

"If what I say is right, the whole US government should end up behind bars," he says.

The German government has made no official response to the book, although ministers have tried to distance themselves from his views.

But von Bulow's ideas are very popular and polls show a fifth of Germans believe Washington ordered the attacks.

The CIA and September 11, written mainly from internet research, is a besteller, with sales of more than 100,000.

? Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2003.





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Subject: God Put Bush In Charge, Says US General


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God Put Bush In Charge,
Says US General
By David Rennie
The Telegraph - UK
10-17-3

The general leading the hunt for Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein has publicly declared that the Christian God is "bigger" than Allah, who is a false "idol", and believes the war on terrorism is a fight with Satan, it emerged
yesterday.

Investigative reporters from the Los Angeles Times and NBC television have
dug up two years' worth of seemingly incendiary comments from Lt Gen William
"Jerry" Boykin, the newly promoted deputy undersecretary of state of defence for
intelligence.

Gen Boykin has repeatedly told Christian groups and prayer meetings that
President George W Bush was chosen by God to lead the global fight against Satan.

He told one gathering: "Why is this man in the White House? The majority of
Americans did not vote for him. He's in the White House because God put him
there for a time such as this."

In January, he told Baptists in Florida about a victory over a Muslim warlord
in Somalia, who had boasted that Allah would protect him from American
capture. "I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real god and
his was an idol," Gen Boykin said.

He also emerged from the conflict with a photograph of the Somalian capital
Mogadishu bearing a strange dark mark. He has said this showed "the
principalities of darkness... a demonic presence in that city that God revealed to me as
the enemy".

On the Middle East, Gen Boykin told an Oregon church in June that America
could not ignore its Judaeo-Christian roots. "Our religion came from Judaism and
therefore [Islamic] radicals will hate us forever."

In the same month, Gen Boykin told an Oklahoma congregation that Osama bin
Laden and Saddam Hussein were not the enemy.

"Our enemy is a spiritual enemy because we are a nation of believers... His
name is Satan."

The disclosures will doubtless be seized on by Muslim critics as proof that
the US-led war on terrorism is a crusade against Islam. It is a charge that Mr
Bush has worked hard to refute.

Though careful to respect minority religions within its ranks, the US
military is strikingly devout from top to bottom. Mr Bush and several key figures in
his administration are staunch Christian conservatives.

Few outside the Pentagon noticed when Gen Boykin, a 13-year member of Delta
Force, the top-secret commando unit modelled on the SAS, was promoted this
summer, with responsibility for speeding the flow of top-secret intelligence to
commandos hunting bin Laden and other high-value targets.

At a routine press conference yesterday, Donald Rumsfeld, the normally
confident defence secretary, appeared wrong-footed by the controversy. He hailed the
general's "outstanding record" and said his comments were made "in his
private capacity".

However, Mr Rumsfeld was careful to cite Mr Bush's injunctions against
viewing Islam as the enemy.

Gen Boykin told NBC that he would be curtailing his speeches to religious
groups. "I don't want to come across as a Right-wing radical," he said.