How September 11 changed the US 11-Sept-07

[suhailshafi]

Excellent report.

I think the US has a right to defend itself and some of the post 9/11 changes are necessary and inevitable. But the ``culture of fear'' is sad and one can hope that someday it will be replaced by a culture of trust.

[HopeDiamondSS16]

I just uploaded a ground-breaking video!! Please watch. I hope it provokes thoughts. (9/11)

[eekdog2005]

9/11 opened my eyes to false flag terrorism, Govt. sponsored terrorism and has taught me to study my constitution and to demand freedom from a tyrannical govt. that has hijacked my country!

[ASUK999]

Please everybody visit this video (on my channel) and inform others about it, to get the message across Muslims are against terrorism:

"MUSLIM HIT SONG-CONDEMING TERRORISM!!!"

[RBLA818]

The Neo-Conservatives plan "The Project for a New American Century" said:

American people would not stand for a war against Iraq unless there was, as they put it IN THEIR OWN DOCUMENT: "A NEW PEARL HARBOR"!!!!

[DSLandis]

On 9/11/2001, I watched in total disbelief as three steel buildings collapsed at free-fall speed on their own footprint. Building 7 was not hit by a plane, and it's fires were under control. Jet fuel does not melt steel. Someone please tell me more about the debris from the "commercial airliner" that hit the pentagon.Google Terrorstorm, Loose Change, and Zeitgeist. There is now probable cause for a full criminal investigation of all 9/11 events.

[mikemay7]

Everything you just said is complete bs. Go to the website "debunking911", or just type debunking 9/11 into the youtube search. The buildings didn't fall at free fall acceleration, they didn't fall into their own footprint, and there is plenty of debris from the pentagon, and no one claims the fire melted the steel. How stupid do you have to be to think a truck could pull up to the pentagon and dump all of that debris without anyone noticing..

[joniindo78]

@mikemay7

Why don't you go to AE911truth. or search "9/11: blueprint of truth"

or read "debunking 911 debunking"

LOL it's not hard to see that the official story is full of lies...

unless we believe that black box should be made out of passport!!

not me

[DevBlazed]

The war is 100% about oil. American people do not get Iraqi Oil. Its a foreign asset.

INSTEAD they sell to asians and europeans... Its too expensive to bring it back.

Hussain(Iraq), Chavez(Venezuela), and Ahmadinejad (Iran) opposed giving the neo-cons free access to their oil. AND the Taliban(Afganistan), refused to let the neo-cons build pipelines from asia to the caspien sea.

do your homework.

[4getto]

If the war was about oil then we would have just Stayed in Kuwait because there is does not have the political, economic, social, historical, or geographical problems that Iraq does and all the oil in near the coast and closer more highly developed wells. Oh yeah and their government like us because we protected them against Iraq. SO if it was for oil why didn't we just stay there? Oh maybe it is because the war was something else other than oil.

[10timer]

According to CH4 in UK on10/9/2007 at 9.00 PM the programm called FH9/11 showed that 9/11 was inside job and only two families are to blame. Bush family and Osama ben Laden family. We as public just watch or read news and beleave that the media is bringing the true news to us. media has blame 9/11 totaly on Muslim people Which shows how democratic this world is.

[KingKroniclesWynndow]

Watch my video response for my comments.

[dtruth99]

The video we have just seen reminds me the connivance made between Bush and the Jews to rule America by means of invading the New York twin towers and charged it to this so called Muslim terrorists leaded by Osama Bin Laden and instantly attacked Afghanistan to misguide the American people and allow Bush to rule America in what we say the Bush coup d etat style.

[dtruth99]

Just think! how many thousands of Jews employed in the twin towers and that very same day and time no single Jew goes to work, is it a coincidence??? (unbelievable) or an intention (most probably)??? think of a great lies made in the 21st century. Think a hundered times and you will get the final view.

[chiefchumley]

All you have to do is look at the list of people that died in the WTC to see that there were plenty of jews there. You need to do some real research before you open your stupid mouth.

[dtruth99]

chiefchumley please open your mind to the truth, have you seen the lists? or maybe a bulk of lies to cover up the truth. How about the reality of the plane passengers? where are their loved ones? if they are right?

[nicholas9999]

_All_ reporting of this type is sure to be somewhat "biased." However, it seem to me that AJ is mostly echoing what many people are saying. There is a culture of secrecy, of fear of the loss of civil liberties, in which a person may be detained without any representation, without any chance to argue their case. This video by AJ could have been 10 times worse and still been well within the limits of honest reporting.

[hela999]

think about it... where would America be today if 9/11 did not happen? Maybe Bush would of found another way to cover up his oil-infatuated occupation over the middle east. Who knows.

[rickcovert]

With words like "invaded","pretext"& "mythology" Viviana Hurtado reveals her obvious contempt for the US. It would be refreshing to hear more neutral language used and let the viewer use their God-given intelect to make judgments, instead of the relentless axe grinding that passes for reporting in this piece.

[chiefchumley]

Very well said. There are some things that aljazeera is incapable of reporting fairly.

[jklasdfjdfksl]

"invaded" and "pretext" are terms that do not fully encompass the contempt that could be shown. for instance, if the reporter called the invasion a criminal act of war aggression, which is the supreme crime of international law and in clear violation of the UN charter; she would be 100% factually correct without having to show any bias agianst the US.

[jklasdfjdfksl]

"pretext" could be called "preventative war", which is an illegall kind of war that results from imagined threats; rather than "pre-emptive" war, which requires that threats from a country can actually be shown to exist. the terms she used were very neutral and did not criticize the US, they simply stated the facts of the situation briefly and objectively.

[jklasdfjdfksl]

i think it is more telling of US culture, that any judgement of the facts which shows that the US may be in the wrong is immediately labeled as "contempt for the US" without any consideration for the facts. this actually shows a perfect example of the fear culture in the US right now; people are likely to think that these factual statements are made because everyone hates the US.

[chiefchumley]

we are fully aware that you hate the US

[dtruth99]

I love America and the honest and sincere Americans and as we know, history speaks of the fast.

[EmperorAtahualpa]

Good point. But besides that, the reporter should also have mentioned the suspicions that the American invasion of Iraq is out of economic interests (oil), if only shortly.

[4getto]

The war was not about OIL! the Americans have not gotten one drop of oil from the Iraqis, and if we have then oil would not be at an all time high right now.

[oolong2]

And the oil companies have been reporting record profits over the last 5 years... Do you think what you pay at the pump is a reflection of the influence these companies have? The war is about strategic LONG TERM control in that region... it's not about invading, grabbing some oil, and getting out.

[4getto]

Why do you think there has been record profits? that is becasue the supply is so low! when you have markets like India and China growing at 10% annually, they need power. China is also buying oil from countries without having it go into the market. So it is a simple supply and demand. it is basic ecominics. to get the price (and profits) to go down all that needs to happen is for more oil to go into the market.

[shinada]

Dude, I dont see any correlation of this info with Iraq war. I learned economics and they are not the basic one:)

[4getto]

you have never heard of Supply and demand? if there is less of something then the price will go up, and if there is more of it the price will go down.

[shinada]

Should I repeat my statement? I dont see any correlation of supply and demand with invading Iraq. Anyway get back to main point. The Iraq war is useless. More than half a million of Iraqis died in the last 4 years equivalent to 0.2% of the total population. 1.2 millions are homeless and million of others have become refugees and leave the country. So whats the good point?

[4getto]

the piont was that the invasion of iraq has nothing to do with oil... Iraq is a memeber of OPEC and therefore the exports of oil would be judged by that cartel. OPEC wants to keep the production down becasu ethen the price goes up. the numbers you quote are not accurate becasue no one truely knows the death there

[shinada]

Whether Iraq is a member of OPEC it wont make any different because the invasion was highly moitvated by the high oil reserve in that country. the number of death is provided by the study made by John Hopkins University and I'm not so sure about your source. Ron Paul argued that Bush didnt declare the war thus make it illegal.

[DevBlazed]

The war is 100% about oil. American people do not get Iraqi Oil. Its a foreign asset.

INSTEAD they sell to asians and europeans... Its too expensive to bring it back.

Hussain(Iraq), Chavez(Venezuela), and Ahmadinejad (Iran) opposed giving the neo-cons free access to their oil. AND the Taliban(Afganistan), refused to let the neo-cons build pipelines from asia to the caspien sea.

do your homework.

[shinada]

4getto, be smarter than that. If Bush and his gangs even dare to hijack his own country why would they give u any profit from the war? duh....

[4getto]

how could he "hijack" the country? What you are saying is so Delusional it isn't even funny. they have no finnanical gain out of higher prices to be in that elected office you have to give up all stocks and such becasue of conflict of interest

[shinada]

it wasnt intended to be a joke. Who knows whether he gain anything or not. But he is more like a dog and a dog has an owner. Lets make the point straight. If you were saying the Iraq war is good, then tell me the reasons. If you were saying the 9/11 was done by Osama or whoever the so called "terrorist" were, then show me the proofs.

[4getto]

we went into the war to dispose Saddam. It was because the UN res that the world agreed upon. He has waged wars on his neighbors, and used WMD's and committing genocide on its own people. After the attack on the WTC the American saw that there was unfinished business in Iraq and that they did have terrorists (not the ones that did the 911 attacks), but After the 93 bombing we do know that some of them went to Iraq. SO we could not let a someone give the WMD's to terrorist to use on their behalf

[shinada]

not true. the main reason bush used to justify his invasion on a sovereign country was WMD which is nothing. Bush went to war without the Congress approval and it was not according to the UN resolution. This mean the war is illegal. Give me sources to confirm your info. :)

[4getto]

WHAT?! there wass a deabte in Congress and they approved miltary action agaisnt Iraq, look it up. 77 of 100 senators and 296 of 435 House members voted to give the Pres athority to use miltary action.

[shinada]

Well show me the source:)

[guntertimb]

It is an illegal war because it is unconstitutional. Congress was not allowed to vote to declare war or not do so.

[2of6Solutions]

9/11 my life has not changed much at all I don't experience any more fear now than I ever have, but I don't live in the middle east...that would be the place to feel fear.

[rockondon]

yeah i fear bush and cheney and im angered at all the cockgoblers that voted them in office assholes shoulda

EDUCATED YOURSELVES YOU SHEEP OH WAIT IM SORRY I FORGOT BUSH STOLE THE ELECTION MY BAD

[jklasdfjdfksl]

words like "axis of evil" are designed to create fear, which creates hatred. plenty of it exists, all you have to do is turn on the tv to cnn or fox to see some guy ranting about how there are terrorists who hate the US "because were free", and they act as if these people have no legitimate concerns about US policy in THEIR region. its made into an idea of "good guys" against "bad guys", and the US has never done anything wrong to anger people.

[jklasdfjdfksl]

fear was used to mobilize the US public and congress to support the iraq war, using terms such as "mushroom cloud". it is scary that this works, and even scarier that people still do not realize that it did while the new hype about iran is getting their genocidal hatred boiling again.

[jklasdfjdfksl]

rather than addressing the real issues that have caused hatred of the US, the media helps the corrupt politicians whip up fear into a blood frenzy as they drive the call to expand their genocidal war and begin to do away with rights of US citizens; by privatizing social rights and breaking new ground in legally denying people their constitutional rights.

[foititis]

hasn't it worked?

[jklasdfjdfksl]

not if you consider the fact that terrorism has dramatically increased worldwide since the illegal imperial wars began; and yes the US is part of the world. hatred for the US has also skyrocketed, which is what gives birth to terrorism attacks on the US. the fact that al jazeera can report on such things only highlights the continued failures of the US aristocratic media system.

[mo1elftausend]

9/11 was no inside job. Those truthers are rediculing the anti-war movement imo

[ollowert]

This attack could not of happened under a worse administration. The simplistic logic for why this happened espoused by our pres. "they hate our freedom" may be why he is getting rid of said freedom. He's a simple man for an unsimple time.

[SolAurum]

You're the one not being objective here. You are so blinded by foolish patriotism that you cannot see your own country's faults and that the "security crackdown" has become a witch hunt.

[muckletoon]

I'm angry the media failed and still fail to investigate 911, they allowed the real perps in Washington to get away with doing this and wage fake wars against Afghanistan and Iraq

[DamNationDiplomat]

There's no way to objectively analyse 9/11. The extremist bushies and the extremist truthers have invented their own versions of what happened, and all the forensic evidence was cleaned up after the tragedy. How can we open an investigation on material that doesn't exist?

[muckletoon]

photographic evidence demonstrates the WTC was blown to kingdom come

[screwrepubs]

interesting. while some good points were made she left out the abandonment of New Orleans, guanatanamo, CIA renditions, legalization of torture, extreme materialism and environmental destruction, increased violence and hate, and declining education. We've become a decaying empire.

[fourganger88]

Rendition is now a scary word.