lOSt AND fOuND
Bin Laden read my book. So what? I’m more interested in what the US is NoT telling me, writes greg Palast
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inding out that my book “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy” was on the Bin Laden bookshelf confirms my fears about America’s war on whistleblowers. I already knew that Osama bin Laden read my book before the headlines last month – but I’m still angry that he gave “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy” only four-anda-half stars on his Amazon review. Obviously, something in the book pissed him off, because he never friended me on Facebook. It was actually quite embarrassing to learn that Bin Laden was reading my tome – and a few by my homie Noam Chomsky. It’s embarrassing because it’s clear that Bin Laden was more well-read than our president of the time (though, in George W Bush’s defence, there’s much to be learned from “My Pet Goat”). I do hope Osama made it to page 229. I talk about a guy who worked at my office, Clinton
Davis. Before I left to write for the Guardian and Observer, my office was in Tower 2 of the World Trade Center. Davis, a cop, was safe at ground level, but he ran upstairs to save others – and disappeared, forever. Did Bin Laden get a little laugh out of that one? At least he got to know his victim’s name. And what did Bin Laden think of my investigation of the 9/11 attack? While working at BBC’s Newsnight, a few weeks after the towers fell, a little birdie dropped off a 30-page memo marked “SECRET,” “eyes only” and “1-99I WF”, which is code for “national security document”. The document suggested that FBI agents were blocked from investigating the Bin Laden family well before 11 September 2001. Calls to the Defense Intelligence Agency, CIA and FBI insiders authenticated this bombshell of a devastating intelligence failure.
Bin Laden never took credit for 9/11. in fact, he repeatedly denied any responsibility for those mass murders
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