CHOSSUDOVSKY, Michel. Canadian economics professor: "From the outset, the objective was to use 9/11 as a pretext for launching the first phase of the Middle East War... The media disinformation campaign went into full gear"

Michel Chossudovsky (Canadian economist, author and a professor of economics at the University of Ottawa) (2015): “From the outset, the objective was to use 9/11 as a pretext for launching the first phase of the Middle East War, which consisted in the bombing and occupation of Afghanistan. Within hours of the attacks, Osama bin Laden was identified as the architect of 9/11. On the following day, the “war on terrorism” had been launched. The media disinformation campaign went into full gear. Also on September 12, less than 24 hours after the attacks, NATO invoked for the first time in its history “Article 5 of the Washington Treaty – its collective defence clause” declaring the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) and the Pentagon “to be an attack against all NATO members.” What happened subsequently, with the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq is already part of history. Iran and Syria constitute the next phase of the US adminstration’s military roadmap. 9/11 remains the pretext and justification for waging a war without borders (Michel ChossudovskyFrom, “Prof. Michel Chossudovsky: the truth behind 9-11”, True Publica, 15 September 2015: http://truepublica.org.uk/united-states/prof-michel-chossudovsky-truth-behind-911/ ).