The War on Terror is Over!! (or is it?)

Its been a busy week on the personal front, so a bit belatedly, it is time to announce that war on terror is over. The United States has successfully extracted a complete confession from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Not only has the mastermind of virtually every terrorist attack of the past 15 years confessed, but he has done so without the aid of torture. Now, torture was used, but not in the extracting of the confession.

This brings to mind a few questions. Firstly, if torture was not required to extract this confession, why was it used at all? Secondly, if torture was used at any point to extract information, how accurate can any information be? And, thirdly, if other acts or involvements were extracted by torture, what could these acts be? He's already virtually admitted to single-handedly planning and organising every atrocity since 1993!

In consideration of the fact that Osama Bin Laden, and extensionally Al Qaeda, have NEVER been charged, or in fact linked to 911, this confession directly contradicts the pretext for war against Iraq. Let us not forget that possession of weapons of mass destruction was only part of the rationale for war. The other part was that Saddam Hussein was in some way supporting Al Qaeda. We all now know that the WMD claim was at best exaggerated and at worst completely fabricated. Now we're expected to believe that Osama Bin Laden is a nobody, and in fact, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is the responsible party. "I was responsible for the 9/11 Operation, from A to Z," Mohammed, speaking through a personal representative, said according to the transcript of the hearing on Saturday at the U.S. military's Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba. This flies directly in the face of the supposed Bin Laden confession, in an audio tape released on a website, a voice claiming to be Osama bin Laden claims Zacarias Moussaoui had nothing to do with the 9/ll attacks and, in fact, was not even aware they were to take place. This statement has been touted by the US Government as proof that Osama Bin Laden planned and executed the attacks on 911.

It is virtually impossible to decipher the truth from the official US reports of the events of 911 and who was responsible. What is possible, however, is to look at the official press releases and determine that the truth has NOT been revealed. Many claim that 'conspiracy theorists' are irrational and do not look at the facts. The truth is that the 'official' account is a theory, and that particular theory does not in any way fit with the known facts. Are the 'conspiracy theorists' wrong? In all cases, save one, they are. There is only one truth and, unfortunately, it is not the official version.