IT’S criminally easy and tempting to equate the idea of a conspiracy theory with gossip, unverified or motivated slander, usually pertaining to a high-profile political event, not excluding assassination.
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IT → ’ → assassination
Karl Popper was wary of pinning conspiracy theories onto individuals or institutions that could sway outcomes.
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that → pin → outcomes
He felt theories upfronting individuals or groups masked the trigger that prompted the event in the first place.
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that → feel → place
I have my own conspiracy theory, if that is what one must call it, about the origins of the phrase and I pin it on the zealous and potent Zionist media.
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I → have → media
Technically, the phrase is ascribed to the 19th-century claim that Britain backed the Confederates in the American Civil War.
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Britain → ascribe → War
But its first significantly notable use was the CIA’s attempt to debunk compelling questions about the assassination of JFK in 1963, particularly those leading to an Israeli hand.
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use → debunk → hand
We’ll come to that.
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We → come → that
Nipping curiosity or agreeable narratives about the Israel lobby in the imperial hub of the US, which John Mearsheimer wrote a book about, remains a problem for Third World media consumers of Western-origin reports, which subtly or staunchly, knowingly or unwittingly root for the Zionist worldview.
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which → nip → worldview
A new potentially important theory has surfaced about the over-chewed 9/11 narrative.
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theory → surface → narrative
Renowned anti-establishment American anchor Jimmy Dore interviewed Curt Weldon last week.
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Dore → interview → Weldon
The former 10-term Republican Congressman from Pennsylvania claimed new revelations into the affair.
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Congressman → claim → affair
Weldon has spent decades claiming that a secret US military intelligence programme called Able Danger identified 9/11 hijackers before the attacks, and that the information was deliberately buried.
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information → spend → attacks
Unsurprisingly, the claims routinely have been officially denied.
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claims → deny → ?
Weldon served as Congressman from 1987 to 2007 and was vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
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Weldon → serve → Committee
Before Congress, he was a lifelong volunteer firefighter, and he responded to the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing and the 9/11 attacks themselves.
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he → respond → bombing
He has long argued that he lost his 2006 re-election bid as retaliation for his efforts to expose pre-9/11 intelligence failures.
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he → argue → failures
A new potentially important theory has surfaced about the over-chewed 9/11 narrative.
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theory → surface → narrative
Weldon’s new book, Able Danger: What the 9/11 Commission Never Told You, is scheduled for release today (Sept 22), and presents more than his hitherto detailed accounts of 9/11 allegations.
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Commission → tell → allegations
The central claim is that a classified US Army data-mining programme called Able Danger used supercomputers to analyse intelligence databases and identified leading hijacker Mohamed Atta and his ‘Brooklyn cell’ over a year before 9/11.
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programme → call → 9/11
Weldon alleges that Able Danger team members tried to pass this information to the FBI at least three times by late 2000, but were blocked by military lawyers and bureaucratic ‘walls’.
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members → allege → lawyers
The 9/11 Commission released its report in 2004, and Able Danger’s findings were nowhere to be seen, the book laments.
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book → release → 2004
Weldon claims that the Commission deliberately omitted the most consequential facts to protect reputations and avoid accountability.
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Commission → claim → accountability
He said his 2006 election loss was part of a “deep state” plot to prevent him from becoming Armed Services Committee chairman and exposing the truth.
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loss → say → truth
Why was Weldon bringing up the charges today, a quarter century after the event and what’s new?
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what → bring → event
Dore believes the book offers a series of explosive allegations that go beyond the standard ‘Able Danger’ intelligence failure narrative, directly accusing senior US officials of not just failing to prevent 9/11, but of actively planning and covering it up.
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that → believe → it
A personal memo Weldon retrieved from his archives ties the FBI raid on his daughter’s home three weeks before his 2006 election to the Able Danger cover-up.
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Weldon → retrieve → up
According to Weldon, the memo was sent by a top adviser to then defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the same day as the raid, and it stated: “Kurt, I warned you about Able Danger.
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I → accord → Danger
Dick and Don are now going to destroy you.”
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Dick → go → you
He frames this as proof that his political destruction was orchestrated by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld to prevent him from becoming chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and exposing the programme.
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destruction → frame → programme
Weldon’s key assertions include the claim that the administration played games with Mohamed Atta’s identity, referring to him as ‘Mohamed Elsa’ to obscure that Able Danger had identified him.
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Danger → include → him
He also claims that army intelligence officer Erik Kleinsmith was ordered to destroy 2.5 terabytes of Able Danger data to prevent it from coming to light.
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Kleinsmith → claim → light
Crucially, Weldon alleges that the US knew where Osama bin Laden was when it invaded Afghanistan and actually helped hide him in the Balochistan region (overlapping Iran and Pakistan), while sending American soldiers to die searching for him.
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it → allege → him
He specifically accuses Commission director Philip Zelikow of leading a “whitewash”.
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He → accuse → whitewash
It doesn’t matter much what Weldon is aiming to do with the new book.
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Weldon → matter → book
The point to note is that a former Congressman from the Republican circuit is making claims as an insider, which pits his version of the story against the familiar flat denial sans a winning logic.
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which → note → logic
Comparing Kennedy’s assassination with 9/11 terrorism throws up several points to ponder, keeping Israel in the crosshairs.
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Comparing → compare → crosshairs
In the 9/11 event, five Israelis were arrested after being reported for allegedly dancing with joy, according to Chinese news reports of the attack.
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Israelis → arrest → attack
The arrests happened but the joy was apparently not proved and the men were freed.
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men → happen → ?
The FBI found no foreknowledge of the terror event with the men.
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FBI → find → men
In Kennedy’s case, a widely shared belief that the Mossad killed him is backed by a clear motive — Kennedy’s documented push for inspecting Israel’s illegal Dimona nuclear facility.
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Mossad → share → facility
…and 3 more, not listed.
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