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Willful Blindness and Our Saudi ‘Friends’
It’s sometimes hard to believe that 9/11 took place
fifteen years ago. We will never forget this horrendous terrorist
attack on America’s soil. We may have rebuilt, recovered, and healed
our wounds over the years, but we will never forget.
Further, we must learn from the details and evidence obtained from
terrorist activity, and from those involved in terror attacks, in order
to alter our course of history. Have we?
In this very detailing article below, Andy McCarthy explains the
involvement of the Saudi Arabian government in 9/11. He states,
“The government must disclose the 28 pages of the 2002 congressional
report on the 9/11 attacks that it has shamefully withheld from the
public for 14 years. Those pages outline Saudi complicity in the
jihad.”
We certainly agree. Release the pages.
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Willful
Blindness and Our Saudi ‘Friends’
Andrew C. McCarthy, National
Review
 For many
years, I was reluctant to write a memoir of my experience leading the
investigation and prosecution of the jihadists against whom we are
still at war over 20 years later. For one thing, while an exhilarating
experience for a trial lawyer, it was also a very hard time for my
family, for obvious reasons. Also, with all the tough judgment calls we
had to make, we inevitably made some mistakes — “we” very much
including me. A triumphant outcome has a pleasant way of bleaching away
any memory of errors; to write honestly about the case would mean
revisiting them. Who needed that?
And about that triumph: I had, and have, a gnawing sense that we
failed. Yes, the conviction of the Blind Sheikh and his henchmen was a
great law-enforcement success. Throughout the long trial and in the
years that followed, though, I came to appreciate that national security
is principally about keeping Americans safe, not winning court cases.
Sure, winning in this instance meant justice was done and some
terrorists were incarcerated. How safe, though, had we really kept
Americans?
For all the effort and expense, the number of jihadists neutralized was
negligible compared to the overall threat. The attacks kept coming, as
one might expect when one side detonates bombs and the other responds
with subpoenas. As the years passed, the tally of casualties far
outstripped that of convicted terrorists. When 9/11 finally happened,
killing nearly 3,000 of our fellow Americans, al-Qaeda credited none
other than the Blind Sheikh with issuing the fatwa — the sharia edict —
that authorized the attack. We had imprisoned him, but we had not
stopped him.
That is mainly why I finally wrote the memoir in 2008. I called it
Willful Blindness . . . and not just because my infamous defendant was
both blind and willful. American counterterrorism, even seven years
after 9/11 (and fully 15 years after the jihadists declared war by
bombing the World Trade Center), had bored its head ever deeper in the
sand. It consciously avoided the central truths driving the terrorist
threat against the United States.
The most significant of these is that violent jihadism is the
inexorable result of the vibrance in Islam of sharia supremacism — a
scripturally-rooted summons to Muslims to strive for conquest over
infidels until Allah’s law (sharia) is established everywhere on earth.
Read
entire story here.
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