WAR AND GLOBALISATION

THE TRUTH BEHIND SEPTEMBER 11

by Michel Chossudovsky

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

CHAPTER I

BACKGROUND: BEHIND SEPTEMBER 11

Osama bin Laden: Pretext For Waging War

Largest Display of Military Might Since World War II

Military Planners Call The Shots

Destroying the Rule of Law

Extending More Powers to the FBI and the CIA

Global Economic Crisis

CHAPTER II

WHO IS OSAMA BIN LADEN?

Background of the Soviet Afghan War

'The Islamic Jihad’

The Golden Crescent Drug Triangle

The War in Chechnya

Promoting Secessionist Movements in India

U.S.-Sponsored Insurgencies in China

Washington’s Hidden Agenda

CHAPTER III

WASHINGTON SUPPORTS INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

Bosniagate’: Replicating the Iran-Contragate Pattern

From Bosnia to Kosovo

The U.S. Congress tacitly endorses State Terrorism

‘The Islamic Militant Network’ and NATO Join Hands in Macedonia

Misleading the American People

CHAPTER IV

COVER UP OR COMPLICITY?

Role of Pakistan’s ISI in the September 11 Attacks

‘The ISI-Osama-Taliban Axis’

Behind Close Doors at the State Department

CHAPTER V

WAR AND THE HIDDEN AGENDA

Conquest of Oil Reserves and Pipeline Routes

The Planning of War

Militarization of the Eurasian Corridor

Covert Operations on behalf of the Oil Giants

Europe versus Anglo-America: The Clash of Competing Oil Interests

CHAPTER VI

THE TRANS-AFGHAN PIPELINE

The CentGas Consortium

Unocal - Osama Links

BP-Amoco Enter the Pipeline Saga

Unocal ‘Appoints' Interim Government in Kabul

CHAPTER VII

AMERICA'S WAR MACHINE

Post 1999 Military Buildup

America’s War Economy

Nuclear Weapons in the Wake of September 11

Encircling China

The Anglo-American Axis

Franco-German Integration in Nuclear Weapons

Undeclared War Between Russia and America

CHAPTER VIII

THE AMERICAN EMPIRE

War Without Borders

The Military-Intelligence Apparatus

War: A Money Making Operation

CHAPTER IX

DISARMING THE NEW WORLD ORDER 131

Totalitarian State

Sustaining the Illusion of Democracy

Fabricating Dissent

Building Meaningful Mass Movements

CHAPTER X

POLITICAL DECEPTION: THE MISSING LINK BEHIND 9-11

Fear and Disinformation Campaign

Carefully Planned Intelligence Operation

Mysterious 9-11 Breakfast Meeting on Capitol Hill

CIA Overshadows the Presidency

The Decision to go to War