John Pilger (outstanding UK-based Australian expatriate journalist) on 9-11 (2010): “I think there is a lot of evidence that certain elements in the Bush administration, whether by intent or by their own arrogant incompetence, I don't know, let things happen. I think there is enough evidence to…We know the senior FBI people who gave warnings right throughout 2001. We know about the extraordinary inactivity by the NORAD aircraft on the day of September 11th. We know that Cheney was in charge of the White House on that day. I think the most plausible is the “let it happen”, now at what stage it was let happen, I don't know, I don't know. But certainly that seems to me, the most plausible. There is no doubt that 9/11 became the opportunity for a new “Cold War” basically, only called the “War on Terror”. But beyond that I wouldn't want to…” (John Pilger quoted in 9/11 Truth News, 10 October 2010: http://911truthnews.com/journalist-and-filmmaker-john-pilger-on-911/ ).
[Editor: The 3 major hypotheses about 9-11 are (1) the lying Bush version that al-Qaeda did it, (2) al-Qaeda (or whoever) was involved but the US Government was lying and permitted it to happen (as it permitted Pearl Harbor to happen), and (3) the US Government was directly involved (with or without assistance from others, notably Apartheid Israel ). Hypothesis #1 is adhered to by the overwhelmingly pro-war, pro-Zionist Mainstream media and by the egregiously dishonest Obama Administration following the Bush Administration that told 935 lies about Iraq in the 2 years following 9-11 (see “False pretenses, Center for Public Integrity, http://projects.publicintegrity.org/WarCard/ ”. Hypothesis #2 has wide support. Thus about 90% of Germans and 50% of Americans don't believe the US Government “official version” (see http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/nearly-90-percent-of-germans-do-not-believe-official-911-fairy-tale/ ].