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"Google "Inevitable Ring to the Unimaginable" written 9/13/2001.It's a "chickens came home to roost" piece about 9/11."

I did, and it was very educational. Thanks for the tip. With a statement like this...

"Far from being the terrorists of the world, the Islamic peoples have been its victims - principally the victims of US fundamentalism, whose power, in all its forms, military, strategic and economic, is the greatest source of terrorism on earth."

...Pilger makes it eminently clear where he's coming from, and establishes his level of credibility. On September 13, 2001, I was somewhat preoccupied, like most Americans. Meanwhile, Pilger had the time to write and publish that article, 2 days after the towers fell.

The fact that I found this particular copy on a German Marxist website also speaks volumes about the man and his fellow travelers.

Now please pardon me while I go take a long shower after reading this hack's worthless garbage. But before I go wash the scum off me, let me leave you with the last two sentences from that article:

"It is only a few years ago that the Islamic fundamentalist groups, willing to blow themselves up in Israel and New York, were formed, and only after Israel and the US had rejected outright the hope of a Palestinian state, and justice for a people scarred by imperialism.

"Their distant voices of rage are now heard; the daily horrors in faraway brutalised places have at last come home."

Cairo Egypt,Feb 24,2001 Powell was on a Middle East mission to restore a broad front against Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein.``I know there is some unhappiness,'' Powell told a news conference in Cairo, the first stop on a four-day
tour that includes Jerusalem, Ramallah in the West Bank, Amman, Kuwait, Damascus and Riyadh.

Egyptian commentators tried to rip the U.S. policy and U.N. sanctions to shreds. British air strikes on air defense installations near Baghdad had just occured and the victory of Ariel Sharon over Ehud Barak in Israeli premiership elections on Feb. 6 added to the
potent mix. Amr Moussa of Egypt disagreed openly with Powell's view that the Arab-Israeli conflict should be seen
as only one part of the whole picture of Middle East problems.Moussa was also openly critical of the sanctions still in place against Iraq.
"Sanctions should be reconsidered only as a weapon or as one of the procedures the Security Council resorts to,"
Moussa said.

Powell said the sanctions had largely succeeded in depriving Saddam Hussein of weapons of mass destruction and
preventing it from threatening its neighbors.

But Powell has shied away from the original phrase for his objective -- to ``re-energize'' sanctions against
Iraq by rebuilding the Gulf War alliance of which he was a part as chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff
10 years ago.

A senior State Department official said on Saturday the United States was now looking at requests to ease up
on Iraq imports of items which can have both civilian and military uses.

``People are telling us that some of the dual-use stuff that is not getting through does contribute to an
impact on the civilian population and that's the area that he (Powell) said we would be looking at,'' the
official said.

``We're quite willing to look at the sanctions to try to eliminate any impact (on ordinary Iraqis), if there
is an impact like that,'' he added.
Powell said he was open to suggestions to modify the sanctions, but the Egyptians did not offer any, according
to the senior U.S. official.

Economic sanctions imposed following Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait cannot be lifted until U.N. inspectors
certify that Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons have been destroyed.

Iraq's foreign minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, has said he will insist during the U.N. talks that the
embargo be lifted and that he will not accept the return of the weapons inspectors.

Powell's brief trip to the Middle East and Persian Gulf prompted protests Saturday
Palestinians demonstrated by burning his picture along with the American flag and chanting ``Powell go home.''
Protests also took place in Lebanon and Jordan.