UK Minister: Bush Using 'Terror' Ruse To Dominate The World

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UK Minister: Bush Using
'Terror' Ruse To
Dominate The World
ITV.com
12-12-3

Former Government minister Michael Meacher has claimed that the war on
terrorism is a "political smokescreen" allowing the US to dominate the world and its
oil supplies.

Mr Meacher, who was environment minister for six years until June, argued in
a national newspaper that the US knew in advance of the September 11 attacks
but did not act for strategic reasons.

It has since made "no serious attempt" to catch al-Qaeda leader Osama bin
Laden, he added.

His comments provoked a strong reaction from the US embassy in London. A
spokesman said: "Mr Meacher's fantastic allegations - especially his assertion
that the US government knowingly stood by while terrorists killed some 3,000
innocents in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia - would be monstrous, and
monstrously offensive, if they came from someone serious or credible."

Mr Meacher, MP for Oldham, claimed that "the truth may well be a great deal
murkier", citing a document called Rebuilding America's Defences, written in
September 2000 by neo-conservative think tank Project for the New American
Century (PNAC), which was set up by a group including Dick Cheney (George Bush's
vice president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (deputy
defence secretary) and Lewis Libby (Mr Cheney's chief of staff).

The PNAC plan "is a blueprint for US world domination" which "provides a much
better explanation of what happened before, during and after 9/11 than the
global war on terrorism thesis", he wrote.

"From this it seems that the so-called `war on terrorism' is being used
largely as bogus cover for achieving wider US strategic geopolitical objectives."

He said the PNAC document stated that making the US "tomorrow's dominant
force" would be a long process without "some catalysing event - like a new Pearl
Harbour".

Mr Meacher listed a number of newspaper articles detailing intelligence the
US was said to be in possession of which warned of the September 11 attacks
before they happened.

He also questioned why no fighter planes were scrambled until after the third
plane had crashed into the Pentagon, asking: "Was this inaction simply the
result of key people disregarding, or being ignorant of, the evidence? Or could
US security operations have been deliberately stood down on September 11?"

Mr Meacher concluded that the "overriding motivation for this political
smokescreen is that the US and the UK are beginning to run out of secure
hydrocarbon energy supplies".

By 2010, he said, Muslim countries will control as much as 60 per cent of the
world's oil production and 95 per cent of its global export capacity.