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-9-11 First responders, Deceptions Then and Deceptions Now

September 11, 2003 by tokyoprogressive Leave a Comment

Journalists are invited to contact the following people for interviews.

Institute for Public Accuracy
915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
(202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org
___________________________________________________

* 9/11 First Responders

MEG BARTLETT, groundzeroforpeace@hotmail.com
Bartlett is founder of the group Ground Zero for Peace — First Responders
Against War. As an emergency medical technician, she responded to 9/11. She
said today: “We do not want our experiences to propagate further violence.
No one should have to see what I’ve seen. But people around the world have
seen it for years. If our job is to protect life, it doesn’t make sense for
us to support violence against anyone. The inside of a body looks the same
no matter what continent it’s found on. We’ve begun a letter-writing
campaign with people who do the same work in Kosovo, Israel, the occupied
Palestinian territories and Afghanistan.”

FEKKAK MAMDOUH, fmamdouh@aol.com, http://www.rocny.org
Mamdouh was the primary shop steward for Windows on the World, the
restaurant atop the World Trade Center. He knew most of the 73 workers
there who were killed on 9/11. He is co-founder of Roc-NY (Restaurants
Opportunities Center), which is organizing displaced workers to open co-op
restaurants in New York.

* Administration Deceptions, Then and Now

[Donald Rumsfeld spoke Wednesday afternoon at the National Press Club. The
New York Times reported (Sept. 27, 2002) that Rumsfeld claimed “American
intelligence had ‘bulletproof’ evidence of links between Al Qaeda and the
government of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq. Mr. Rumsfeld said that
recently declassified intelligence reports about suspected ties between Al
Qaeda and the Iraqi government … were ‘factual’ and ‘exactly accurate.'”
On March 30, 2003, interviewed on ABC Television, Rumsfeld said about
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq: “We know where they are. They are in
the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.” See:
and
]

SHELDON RAMPTON, JOHN STAUBER, [via Kelly Groves,
Kelly.Groves@us.penguingroup.com], http://www.prwatch.org/books/wmd.html
Rampton and Stauber authored “Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of
Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq.” They said today: “Based largely on the
administration’s insinuations, a majority of Americans still mistakenly
believe that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11. [See:
] This
is a lie, and a dangerous lie. The Bush administration has hijacked the war
on terror and turned it into a war on Iraq.”

ROBERT JENSEN, rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu,
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/%7Erjensen/freelance/freelance.htm
RAHUL MAHAJAN, cell: (512) 589-3435, (204) 772-6252, rahul@tao.ca,
http://www.rahulmahajan.com
Jensen and Mahajan wrote a piece that appeared yesterday in the
Philadelphia Inquirer, titled “When Will Voters Finally Get Wise to the
Shell Game?” They said today: “When the weapons-of-mass-destruction
rationale for the invasion was exposed as a lie, the focus moved to the
liberation of Iraq. As that soured and resistance to the occupation grew,
the president shifted to talk about terrorism in Iraq without even
bothering to attempt to explain past lies and distortions.” Jensen is the
author of the forthcoming “Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim
Our Humanity.” Rahul Mahajan is the author of “Full Spectrum Dominance:
U.S. Power in Iraq and Beyond.”

STEPHEN ZUNES, stephen@coho.org,
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0908-09.htm
Professor of politics at the University of San Francisco and author of
“Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism,” Zunes
wrote the recent article “The War in Iraq is Not Over and Neither Are the
Lies to Justify It.”

For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167

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