by Michel Chossudovsky

About the author: Michel Chossudovsky is a professor of economics at the University of Ottowa, Canada, and director of the Centre for Research and Globalisation.

A few hours after the terrorist events in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, the Bush administration concluded without waiting for supporting evidence that “Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida organization were prime suspects.” George Tenet, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, stated that bin Laden has the capacity to plan “multiple attacks with little or no warning.” Secretary of State Colin Powell called the attacks “an act of war,” and President Bush confirmed in an evening televised address to the nation that he would “make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those...