In a significant observation many time UN contributor & international
observer Professor Hans Koechler said “9/11 may have been an insider’s
job” in response to a question from one of the delegates attending his
lecture The 'Global War on Terror - Contradictions of an Imperial
Strategy' last night at the Trades Hall in Auckland.

“I am not a boy-I am 59. There are many inconsistencies and inaccuracies
in the official version of events. Those who could not handle a Cessna
pulled off 9/11,” he said.

But he was quick to note that the official version has to be challenged.
Quoting David Ray Griffin he said these events, in terms of destruction
caused, these incidents cannot have been exclusively organized by a
shadowy network of Mujahedeen from the remote places of the globe.

The causes officially given for the incidents are not a sufficient
explanation for what actually happened on that day, especially as
regards the logistics of this highly sophisticated operation and the
very advanced infrastructure required for it.

He has published more than 300 books, reports and scholarly articles in
several languages. In his book The Global War on Terror and the
Metaphysical Enemy he writes the atrocities of September 11, 2001-
Instead of dealing with the contradictions and inconsistencies in the
official version of events and the numerous gaps in terms of the factual
information, a “dogma of political correctness” has been promulgated
according to which 19 Islamic-inspired Arab hijackers, directed by an
elusive “Al-Qaeda” (“base”), succeeded in carrying out the atrocities
all by themselves.

During the course of his lecture he recalled the detailed and precise
questions asked on 11 January 2008 by Yukihisa Fujita, member of Japan’s
House of Councillors (Senate) and Director of the Senate’s Committee on
Foreign Affairs and Defence, about the 9/11 attacks as the origin of the
war on terror are a rare exception.

The total silence about Mr. Fujita’s intervention before the Committee,
that was broadcast live on Japan’s public NHK television channel, in the
Western corporate media is a telling example of the
lack of courage in front a powerful political establishment. Thus, a
rather docile and obviously opportunistic intellectual élite in the
West, in tandem with client régimes in the Muslim world, has effectively
silenced – or at least marginalized – critical opinion.

Against this bleak – geopolitical as well as civilizational – background
we can basically identify two desiderata of international politics in
the framework of the increasing alienation between Islam and the West,
which accompanies the confrontation over the “global war on terror”:

The countries of the West, “assembled,” to varying degrees of intensity
and loyalty, around the United States as the imperial hegemon, have to
realize that they are about to embark upon an unwinnable test of wills:
a conflict that cannot be ended in (conventional) military terms and
that will, if not contained by means of multilateral diplomacy,
completely absorb the “political energies” and exhaust, to a
considerable extent, the resources even of advanced industrial societies.

At the same time, they have to correct and eventually reverse the
process of “civilizational alienation” vis à- vis Islam for which they
are responsible in important respects. There is a need, as then
Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, has put it, “to
unlearn the stereotypes that have become so entrenched in so many minds
and so much of the media.”

Since 1972, UN Secretaries-General in their statements subsequently
acknowledged Professor Köchler’s contributions to international peace.
In April 2000, Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Professor Koechler
as international observer at the Scottish Court in the Netherlands
(Lockerbie Trial).

He said “up to the present day, the government of the United Kingdom has
rejected calls for a public inquiry into the circumstances of the
explosion of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on 21 December
1989. As international observer, appointed by the United Nations, of the
Lockerbie trial in the Netherlands I have outlined the flaws in the
proceedings and called for a revision of the court’s verdict.”

Eventually, in June 2007, the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission,
apparently sharing the author’s original concerns, referred the case
back to the appeal court.

He pointed out the sentencing of a lone intelligence officer from Libya
for the downing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which has
caused the death of 270 people. While this individual most likely is not
guilty as charged, i.e. is not the one who inserted the bomb onto the
plane via Malta and Frankfurt (according to the “Opinion of the Court”:
The High Court of Justiciary at Camp Zeist, Case No: 1475/99, 31 January
2001), no efforts have been made to date to comprehensively investigate
the midair explosion and prosecute the actual perpetrators. The U.K. and
U.S. governments have both rejected a public inquiry into the
circumstances of this incident, thus preventing efficient measures
against possible acts of terrorism against civil aviation in the future.

Prof Koechler is the Founder and President of the International Progress
Organization (I.P.O.), an international non-governmental organization
(NGO) in consultative status with the United Nations and with a
membership in over 70 countries, representing all continents.

Through his research and international activities, Professor Koechler
made major contributions to the debate on international democracy and
United Nations reform, in particular reform of the Security Council.
This was acknowledged by international figures such as the German
Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel. In 1985, Professor Koechler organized the
first major colloquium on "Democracy in International Relations" on the
occasion of the 40th anniversary of the United Nations in New York. With
Irish Nobel Laureate Seán MacBride he initiated the Appeal by Lawyers
against Nuclear War, which set in motion an international campaign that
eventually led to a General Assembly resolution and the issuing of an
advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice. As President of
the I.P.O., he dealt with the humanitarian issues of the exchange of
prisoners of war between Iran and Iraq and with the issue of Kuwaiti
POWs and missing people in Iraq.

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Syed Akbar Kamal is Producer/Director for current affairs programme
Darpan - The Mirror nationwide on Stratos & Triangle TV.
www.teamworkproductions.co.nz

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