Jeremy Scahill on 9/11

[Paul Rigby]

What a surprize.

The usual suspects implying that Scahill is a left gatekeeper. Which is an entirely sterile and destructive argument.

As opposed to the positively enormous surprise of finding you, Jan, yet again defending a left-gatekeeper. So is it really "sterile and destructive" to expose Scahill as Zelikow's emissary to the Left?

Researchers disagree. Sometimes because they don't know all the evidence. Sometimes because they disagree on interpretation of the evidence.

Fascinating, but not exactly Scahill's position, is it? Which is?

“I believe that the United States was attacked by Al Qaeda on 9/11, by men who flew planes into those buildings…I think it [9/11 dissidence -PR] is insulting to the people who died on 9/11”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBS7kdgVb6A

Good to see that old establishment stand-by, emotional blackmail, given an airing again. Kind of reminds me of Priscilla Johnson McMillan, and that time we all huddled together...

Jeremy Scahill has undertaken and published excellent investigative work into Blackwater.

Or may be he was just spoonfed a lot of inside-dope the better to build a legend.

http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/05/...ment-16534

Mithras, on May 10, 2010 at 1:20 pm Said:

Here is a bit of first-hand back story from one who was in Iraq with Jeremy Scahill for (?) Democracy Now during the run up to the Iraq War invasion in 2003. (Scahill’s arrogance even then was insufferable and his ignorance of the middle east appalling.)

He entered Iraq with an anti-war group who got him a visa upon his promise to cover the effects of the US bombing on Iraqi people. This NGO group was one of the only orgs remaining in Iraq planning to monitor human rights abuses and record and document deaths and crimes against innocent Iraqis by the US military. Amnesty Intl was not there, nor Red Cross - even the UN agencies had pulled out. We were pretty much the only ones left to do it. But we were all under heavy watch by Iraqi gov (as Americans whose gov was soon to demolish Iraq). We were told unequivocably NOT to take pix, as they could be used by the US to bomb targets, and not to go off sightseeing unescorted as there were real fears by Iraq gov that we could have spies among us gathering intel while posing as peaceniks. We were warned repeatedly by the highest authorities that to do so would mean automatic expulsion.

So what does Scahill do? A few days before the invasion- Scahill and an army photographer Joel Preston Smith go out – in the middle of the night- set up tripods around various sites in Baghdad (on all but deserted Baghdad streets as the nightlife was nil), and they begin photographing buildings, “scenic landmarks” (Ministry of Info is “scenery”??) and other locations around Baghdad.

They were soon arrested by the Iraqi authorities, interrogated extensively and summarily deported. End of alternative coverage of US war crimes. Not only that, but his surveilling (or whatever the hell it was) got most of the group kicked out as well, because it spread a suspicion of spying on all the rest of us. So half the already small group of human rights protesters had their visas revoked and were thrown out because of this egotistical asshole. And Democracy Now had no one on the ground reporting.

Was Scahill’s subsequent Blackwater “success” the reward by the Establishment for his Iraq stunt?

There were British journalists who were on the trail of military contractors’ crimes in Iraq but that all got pushed to the wayside by the Blackwater merc saga. Funny.

He is not a "douche bag" That is a puerile and pathetic viewpoint.

Au contraire, it's merely an uncomfortable truth about the way the CIA et al routinely create dissidents the better to defend their empire of lies.