The War on Freedom: How and Why America Was Attacked, September 11th, 2001: Amazon.ca: Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed: Books

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A disturbing expose of the American government's hidden agenda, before and after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. A wide range of documents show US officials knew in advance of the 'Boeing bombing' plot, yet did nothing. Did the attacks fit in with plans for a more aggressive US foreign policy? Nafeez Ahmed examines the evidence, direct and circumstantial, and lays it before the public in chilling detail: how FBI agents who uncovered the hijacking plot were muzzled, how CIA agents trained Al Qaeda members in terror tactics, how the Bush family profited from its business connections to the Bin Ladens, and from the Afghan war. A 'must read' for anyone seeking to understand America's New War on Terror.

About the Author

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, a British political scientist and human rights activist, is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development in Brighton, UK, a ‘think tank’ dedicated to the promotion of human rights, justice and peace.

Ahmed is the author of many internationally acclaimed research papers and reports on human rights practices and Western foreign policy. He has been invited to lecture on U.S. foreign policy in various universities and educational establishments around the world. He has been an Oxfam Campaigner since 1996.

Ahmed’s work on the history and development of the conflict in Afghanistan as a consequence of international policies, has been recommended as a resource by Harvard University’s Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, the Department of Communications Studies at California State University, and the English Department at Warren College on Staten Island. His archive of political analyses, published on the Web by Media Monitors Network in Los Angeles, has been nominated a Cool Site on the Netscape Open Directory Project. He was also recently named a Global Expert on War, Peace and International Affairs by The Freedom Network of The Henry Hazlitt Foundation in Chicago. A rising star, Ahmed is still only 23 years old, is married and lives in Brighton.

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The current state of affairs in Afghanistan has its roots in a history that can be traced back to at least the end of the 19th century. Read the first page

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Must read, April 18 2003

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S. Davison (Illinois, QCA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The War on Freedom: How and Why America Was Attacked, September 11th, 2001 (Paperback)

As many of the reviewers before have said. This is definately a must read.
Although Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is extremely repetitive and sometimes comes off sounding like he's trying to convince himself more than the reader. But the facts do not lie. You can look up every source he sites and double check the facts yourself. Although there is no way of truely knowing the absolute truth regarding 9-11. This is as close as you'll ever get.

It also has some startling predictions that the author may have no completely realised until the recent war with Iraq. Some of his observations and that of some of the sources he sites in the book are startling and to be honest damn scary.

In the end I gave this book 4 stars. Mainly for the rehashing he does. In a couple of spots he practically resites entire paragraphs from 3 or 4 pages back.

After reading this you will definately look more closely and question more deeply our foreign policy.

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5.0 out of 5 stars question authority, April 11 2003

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robin bird (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews

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The American public is too quick to believe simple answers from its leaders. There's more to 9-11 and our invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq than most realize and it's imperative that we, as individual citizens, start demanding answers now. I don't believe everything in this book because I don't believe much of anything I read. But I'm suspicious of the Bush administration and I'm so convinced that our country is headed in a very bad direction that I bought 15 copies, in addition to my own, to donate to my city's (Oakland, CA) libraries.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This Book Blows My Mind, Mar 23 2003

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Anna Johnston "musiccrazed" (San Francisco United States) - See all my reviews
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Incredible wealth of historic fact carefully written in a sequential/linear style and very thoroughly footnoted! Highly readable also! What more can you ask for? It reads like a great spy novel but unfortunately itis oh so true...It leaves me aghast (and I thought I knew which way the wind was blowing!-Hah, no, no). Read this book, Read this book, Read this book!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Required reading
I laugh at warnings not to read this book. This IS America, isn't it? It's well documented, and makes the case that the GOVERNMENT, NOT the United States, may very well be... Read more

Published on July 19 2004 by Cathleen M. Walker

1.0 out of 5 stars perfect, if you're brainwashed
This book is more propaganda for the USA haters, and articulates their position, that September 11 was, in essence, our fault, and that we deserved it. Read more

Published on July 16 2004 by Nelson