Tessy
04-10-2008, 06:23 PM
UN Human Rights Official Wants Investigation
Into US Government Role In 9/11 (http://www.infowars.com/?p=1426)
An official in the newly formed UN Human Rights Council has called for a fresh
investigation into the events of 9/11 in order to examine the possible role that
neoconservatives may have played in the attacks.
The New York Sun (http://www2.nysun.com/article/74465?page_no=1) picked up the story today, explaining that Richard Falk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Falk), a
professor of international law emeritus at Princeton University, and an expert
on human rights was assigned to a new position within the council on March 26.
His role is to report on human rights in the conflict between Israel and the
Palestinian Arabs.
Two days prior to the announcement, Falk appeared on former University of
Wisconsin lecturer Kevin Barrett’s radio show and spoke of how he is keen to
see a fresh investigation into 9/11 in order to address inconsistencies in the
official account of what happened.
Mr. Falk told Barrett, "It is possibly true that especially the neoconservatives
thought there was a situation in the country and in the world where something
had to happen to wake up the American people. Whether they are innocent
about the contention that they made that something happen or not, I don’t
think we can answer definitively at this point. All we can say is there is a lot
of grounds for suspicion, there should be an official investigation of the sort
the 9/11 commission did not engage in and that the failure to do these things
is cheating the American people and in some sense the people of the world
of a greater confidence in what really happened than they presently possess."
Falk previously penned the preface to Professor David Ray Griffin’s ground-
breaking 2004 book The New Pearl Harbor, in which the theologian catalogued
scores of unexplained facets surrounding 9/11 and inconsistencies in the official
government version of events.
Falk has also published a number of notable books and essays analyzing the
legality of the Vietnam War and other military operations, including the Iraq
invasion.
A year ago he played a prominent role in a Citizens’ hearing on the legality of
the Iraq War (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61WOtqddxKg) as a tribunal testifier. Of the Invasion he has previously written:
"inescapable that an objective observer would reach the conclusion that this
Iraq war is a war of aggression, and as such, that it amounts to a Crime
against Peace of the sort for which surviving German leaders were indicted,
prosecuted and punished at the Nuremberg trials conducted shortly after the
Second World War."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61WOtqddxKg
Falk’s appointment to the Human Rights Council has also hit headlines due to
the fact that he has previously slammed the Israeli occupation of Palestine
and compared the Zionist government’s treatment of Palestinian Arabs to
the Nazi treatment of Jews in the holocaust.
The Israeli government announced Tuesday (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/972974.html) that it will deny Falk a visa to
enter Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.
Despite this and the now customary attacks from the Anti-Defamation League,
Falk has stood by his comments, telling the BBC: (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7335875.stm) "If this kind of situation had
existed for instance in the manner in which China was dealing with Tibet or the
Sudanese government was dealing with Darfur, I think there would be no
reluctance to make that comparison,"
The New York Sun reports that former ambassador to the UN, John Bolton
commented on Falk’s recent appointment to the Human Rights Council:
"This is exactly why we voted against the new human rights council."
Bolton is clearly worried that like Falk, some of the officials within the
council are legal experts that recognize war crimes when they see them
and may actually attempt to do something about it.
Last month Japanese member of Parliament Yukihisa Fujita told the Alex
Jones Show (http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2008/033108_un_investigation.htm) that a potential new investigation of the 9/11 cover-up may
be coordinated by individuals within the United Nations.
It remains to be seen whether the Human Rights Council is composed of
enough well meaning individuals to have a significant impact or whether,
like much of the rest of the UN, it becomes a part of the establishment
left arm of the global elite system.
Into US Government Role In 9/11 (http://www.infowars.com/?p=1426)
An official in the newly formed UN Human Rights Council has called for a fresh
investigation into the events of 9/11 in order to examine the possible role that
neoconservatives may have played in the attacks.
The New York Sun (http://www2.nysun.com/article/74465?page_no=1) picked up the story today, explaining that Richard Falk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Falk), a
professor of international law emeritus at Princeton University, and an expert
on human rights was assigned to a new position within the council on March 26.
His role is to report on human rights in the conflict between Israel and the
Palestinian Arabs.
Two days prior to the announcement, Falk appeared on former University of
Wisconsin lecturer Kevin Barrett’s radio show and spoke of how he is keen to
see a fresh investigation into 9/11 in order to address inconsistencies in the
official account of what happened.
Mr. Falk told Barrett, "It is possibly true that especially the neoconservatives
thought there was a situation in the country and in the world where something
had to happen to wake up the American people. Whether they are innocent
about the contention that they made that something happen or not, I don’t
think we can answer definitively at this point. All we can say is there is a lot
of grounds for suspicion, there should be an official investigation of the sort
the 9/11 commission did not engage in and that the failure to do these things
is cheating the American people and in some sense the people of the world
of a greater confidence in what really happened than they presently possess."
Falk previously penned the preface to Professor David Ray Griffin’s ground-
breaking 2004 book The New Pearl Harbor, in which the theologian catalogued
scores of unexplained facets surrounding 9/11 and inconsistencies in the official
government version of events.
Falk has also published a number of notable books and essays analyzing the
legality of the Vietnam War and other military operations, including the Iraq
invasion.
A year ago he played a prominent role in a Citizens’ hearing on the legality of
the Iraq War (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61WOtqddxKg) as a tribunal testifier. Of the Invasion he has previously written:
"inescapable that an objective observer would reach the conclusion that this
Iraq war is a war of aggression, and as such, that it amounts to a Crime
against Peace of the sort for which surviving German leaders were indicted,
prosecuted and punished at the Nuremberg trials conducted shortly after the
Second World War."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61WOtqddxKg
Falk’s appointment to the Human Rights Council has also hit headlines due to
the fact that he has previously slammed the Israeli occupation of Palestine
and compared the Zionist government’s treatment of Palestinian Arabs to
the Nazi treatment of Jews in the holocaust.
The Israeli government announced Tuesday (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/972974.html) that it will deny Falk a visa to
enter Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.
Despite this and the now customary attacks from the Anti-Defamation League,
Falk has stood by his comments, telling the BBC: (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7335875.stm) "If this kind of situation had
existed for instance in the manner in which China was dealing with Tibet or the
Sudanese government was dealing with Darfur, I think there would be no
reluctance to make that comparison,"
The New York Sun reports that former ambassador to the UN, John Bolton
commented on Falk’s recent appointment to the Human Rights Council:
"This is exactly why we voted against the new human rights council."
Bolton is clearly worried that like Falk, some of the officials within the
council are legal experts that recognize war crimes when they see them
and may actually attempt to do something about it.
Last month Japanese member of Parliament Yukihisa Fujita told the Alex
Jones Show (http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2008/033108_un_investigation.htm) that a potential new investigation of the 9/11 cover-up may
be coordinated by individuals within the United Nations.
It remains to be seen whether the Human Rights Council is composed of
enough well meaning individuals to have a significant impact or whether,
like much of the rest of the UN, it becomes a part of the establishment
left arm of the global elite system.