{"id":22685,"date":"2017-02-09T15:30:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T20:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22685"},"modified":"2017-02-09T15:30:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T20:30:33","slug":"911-masterminds-letter-to-obama-heres-why-we-attacked-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22685","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 Mastermind\u2019s Letter to Obama: Here\u2019s Why We Attacked America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-thumbnail\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<h3 class=\"post-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theantimedia.org\/sheikh-mohammed-letter-9-11-obama\/\">9\/11 Mastermind\u2019s Letter to Obama: Here\u2019s Why We Attacked America<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"main-content\">\n<div class=\"main-content-wrap clearfix\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div id=\"left-area\">\n<article class=\"entry-content clearfix\"><b>(<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/theantimedia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>ANTIMEDIA<\/b><\/a><b>)<\/b><i>\u00a0<\/i>When Barack Obama was still in office, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, one of the perpetrators of the 9\/11 terror attacks,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/world\/americas\/guantanamo\/article131466294.html\" target=\"_blank\">penned a letter<\/a>\u00a0to him. Though a judge recently ruled that letter could be sent to the White House before the outgoing president left office, the contents were to be withheld from the public until a month later \u2014 until after President Trump had assumed power.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the\u00a0<em>Miami Herald<\/em>\u00a0obtained and published the contents of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/latest-news\/article131466809.ece\/binary\/ksmlettertoobama.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">18-page letter<\/a>, originally written in 2015 and titled \u201cLETTER FROM THE CAPTIVE MUJAHID KHALID SHAIKH MOHAMMAD TO THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE, BARACK OBAMA, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE COUNTRY OF OPPRESSION AND TYRANNY.\u201d It contains the Kuwait-born Pakistani terrorist\u2019s insights into why 9\/11 occurred, as well as surprisingly accurate assessments of American politics.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main reasons for 9\/11, according to Mohammed, is one\u00a0terrorists have referenced before: American foreign policy. His explanation is rooted both in history and in current affairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>The American people were misled by the Johnson administration and the Pentagon into waging a war in Vietnam that cost 58,000 U.S. lives and millions of Vietnamese lives and ultimately led to a humiliating defeat<\/i>,\u201d he writes, correctly referencing Johnson\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/media-beat-column\/30-year-anniversary-tonkin-gulf-lie-launched-vietnam-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">false flag attack<\/a>\u00a0in the Gulf of Tonkin, which the Democratic president used to push the U.S. into a prolonged, messy, and ultimately failed war.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed also focused on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and the Muslim world specifically, providing a long list of reasons why the \u201c<i>U.S. reaped what it sowed on 9\/11<\/i>.\u201d One of those grievances was the U.S. government and CIA\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2015\/09\/its-been-50-years-biggest-us-backed-genocide-youve-never-heard\" target=\"_blank\">scheme<\/a>\u00a0to back and support \u00a0\u201c<i>the Indonesian dictator Suharto when his army-led massacres slaughtered hundreds of thousands of landless farmers<\/i>,\u201d though his examples span the globe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9\/11 Mastermind\u2019s Letter to Obama: Here\u2019s Why We Attacked America (ANTIMEDIA)\u00a0When Barack Obama was still in office, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, one of the perpetrators of the 9\/11 terror attacks,\u00a0penned a letter\u00a0to him. Though a judge recently ruled that letter could be sent to the White House before the outgoing president left office, the contents were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10,3306,12055,7844,296,14775,522,584,620],"class_list":["post-22685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-10","tag-barack-obama","tag-carey-wedler","tag-donald-trump","tag-false-flag","tag-khalid-shaikh-mohammed","tag-middle-east","tag-obama","tag-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22686,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22685\/revisions\/22686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}