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ah ah, ah, true here on the yard, we understand that there has been a plane crash on the southern tip. that was like a 2nd place. and never again, going to be the same to your name and it will not be to say not in the history on this nation, has carnage me. there was an eat those that took cold that, you know, this terrible attack was a big threat to the country. and that somehow we were all in this together, the government and the the response ought to be appropriate to what is in fact,

the 2nd pearl harbor, the climate after $911.00. and meant that if you spoke out against the cause to invade iraq or the war on terror, you are committing career suicide. this is about good versus evil. this is about people who want to destroy us, our civilization, and our way of life. you live in basically created a world in which the united states was able to present itself as a force of good fighting against this international axis of evil. states like these and their turns down lives constitute an axis of evil. behind the rhetoric is a reality, which is filled with death and destruction to people in the middle east and central asia and south asia. we need to put paper on notice that if they harbor terrorists, they are going to get it. legacy has been creating more terrorism. actually,

we've got a long way to go or to achieve our objective in america has no interest in fighting an endless war in afghanistan. is the war that enhances the conditions that produce what is supposed to eradicate. we want to fight a war against it and when i could win that war in a week, i just don't want to kill 10000000 people. i know my decision will be criticized, but i would rather take all that criticism. pastors decision on to another president in the united states, yet another one, the war that can never really end. ah, one did not have to be a visionary to realize on september 11th, 2001 that the united states was about to change. a strike at the heart of the world's only superpower. almost 3000 american lives lost in a single day. will have that effect. what was unforeseen was,

how many people in countries that had nothing to do with the 911 attacks had been affected by what the bush administration called the people who have never set foot in the west have seen their own countries to change their own rights. freedoms lives restrict, the invasion of afghanistan and iraq turned from temporary interventions into long term occupations and were still dominating these. in 2000 taliban fighters took control of the capital cobble. it was a crusade as president george w bush once called. we've never seen this kind of evil before, but the evil doers have never seen the american people. it started with the white house forging alliances on the airwaves ever in print. and in intellectual circles

. one of the intellectuals who was brought into the white house to help frame the war on terror is bernard lewis, who are not lewis, is famous for pointing the term clash of civilizations. they want to turn this into a religious war. a war of islam against what they see, see the world of the unbelievers and in the world of the believers, obviously the americans come 1st. another person who was brought in is freed secaria. at the time was the editor, the international edition of new suite of the war takes place and it goes well, which i think it probably will. you will also see at the end of this war that saddam hussein was indeed a murderous tire. and there will be stories that will be evidence and in that sense, you know, you will, you will. this will, will look better in history perhaps than it does today. 911 gave a new lease and a new life to orientalist ideas and even oriented lists scribes. this man can

world view of good and evil and away aloud for the bushes administration is notion of this. lemme call to replace actually the space that the evil empire of the soviet union had occupied before. and so the idea really was that it was the role of the united states to go in and civilized these peoples. and what these intellectuals did is they wrap that up and made it palatable for the 21st century. it was a time when the line separating american journalism from those in power faded away or was willingly cross november 29th, 2000. and one was a case in point. it is a day that has stuck to for read the car and proper capital. a writer who worked for the atlantic both attended a meeting, organized by the deputy secretary of defense, paul wolf with a gathering of hawks planning, a war and messengers who knew how to sell

a brainstorming session that capital. and now would mit produced a forceful summary of pro war arguments at the time? the most significant talking point of the meeting was that the united states had to find a way to change the regime in iraq in supporting the iraq war. i build my own test as a realist and have never ceased to remind by readers of that over the last 20 years . i attended no other meetings about the iraq war. and it's correct to say that meeting such as this one, provided an intellectual veneer to the policy that emerged. what rankles me is that with a few exceptions, the people who were writing robustly in favor of the war in iraq, they're the editors of some of the most important publications in the united states

. right now. they're my friends. i don't wanna single them out, but none of them paid or price, not. no one. i supported the war because i was a journalist who had gotten too close to my story. i had made several trips in the 19 eighties and i had never experienced tyranny. like i did in saddam hussein's iraq, so i said to myself, what's worse than this? nothing could be worse than this. well, i found out in the years since the invasion that the anarchy in iraq after saddam cell was much, much worse than the tyranny under his rule. whether caught up in a rush of patriotism or addicted to the ratings that rise when broadcaster is bang, the drums are too much of the american media bought into the eagle eyes on iraqi w. m. d. 's terrorist sleeper south than the us and saddam hussein's fictional

links to outcome. new studios were flooded with ex, military officers turned front men for weapons manufacturers urging us to attack iraq, presented as experts were more like profit here. and the pentagon played a ordinating role in getting them on the air was turned to retire. general, joseph ralston also join me. general bernard, trainer, he's a retired marine corps, lieutenant general air force lieutenant general tom mac. and ernie who is with us in our foxes were briefing room. they were beltway band, former pentagon officials, who make out like bandits when they go into the private sector and then work for military contractor. his campaign is brilliant, it doesn't involve any collateral damage. no villages, no urban warfare. and it was a scandal that david barstow of the new york times uncovered. he brought in the

minutes of the meetings between rumsfeld and the military experts who were going on tv was a completely orchestrated program inside the pentagon, giving talking points to the experts who would go on the media to shape public opinion. ah, anti war perspectives were marginalized, in some cases censor, the new york times was not the only us media outlet to turn into a conveyor belt for a false narrative. but because of its reach and influence at home and abroad, it helped set the news agenda. jill abramson was the times in washington bureau chief chris hedges. his beat at the time was outside, the media was complicit in, perpetuating this mit. you can't make a war on terror. that's

o t ology. it's impossible. and yet we reacted we drank from that very dark elixir of nationalism. you have to remember after the attacks of 911, the bush administration perpetrated on, on purpose this kind of fears, how they ended up passing the patriot act and the 2002 authorization use military force act. so you had fear, but then you also had american chauvinism, and that was a very deadly mix, that an essence blinded the new york times as an institution. it wasn't just one or 2 reporters, right after $911.00. i remember the director of the cia george kenneth calling me. i was the washington bureau chief for the new york times. and on that call, enlisting my agreement that the times would not do any reporting or disclose and of intelligence sources and

methods. you just start to the washing and posts, and he ticked off the networks and everybody had agree. and the times ended up giving huge play some seriously flawed news stories that were based on for rocky defectors, who turned out to have very little information value about the current state of affairs and iraq. me in 2004, the times published and editorial may a copa of sorts admitting that some of its coverage leading up to the iraq war was not as rigorous as it should have been. it said editors who should have been challenging recorders and pressing for more skepticism, were perhaps too intent on rushing scoops into the paper. ah, the auditorium ended with a promise to continue aggressive reporting aimed at setting the record straight in

the us military on leave, a massive series of air strikes on baghdad and other cities in iraq. and it was both shocking and awesome, as it was promised to be swept the nation after the events of $911.00. so much show that journalists felt that they could not ask critical questions. cbs anchor, dan, rather who went on the letterman show and who said george bush, the president, he makes the decisions. and you know, there's just one american wherever you want me to line up, just tell me where. and he'll make the call. talk about media that have completely given up their autonomy, fox news, and rupert murdoch's empire with consistently in favor of the war on iraq. in fact, all his editors about a 180 of them took a pro war. busy line in the lead up to the iraq war one, oregon saddam begins. we expect every american to support our military and if they

can't do that, to shut on, call them or audiences were led to believe the iraq war would be over in monthly, if not weeks and months. our patients will be one of our strengths that american troops would not end up meyer there or in afghanistan, which the us invaded to hunt down to some a ben loudon and al qaeda and where a decade after bin laden's, assassination, american forces remained when the biden administration finally, and the afghan established last month, american news companies featured many of the same voices. obviously, this is an unmitigated disaster column. we did our dc defense contract. brown that had advocated were the invasions and the subsequent occupation were now arguing that the us was leaving afghans at the mercy of the taliban. and abandoning american entry on time

911 also birth a new generation of security centric films and television shows produced to trade on the pentagon. and the cia have long had an informal symbiotic relationship with all supplying movie makers with military hardware or turning the spy agencies headquarters in virginia into a film set in exchange for state friendly screenplays. 2 months after 911 in november of 2147 talk, hollywood executives met with bush advisor, karl rove in los angeles, to discuss patriotic plot lines. the industry could craft rove later said it was about showing that the war and afghan esther was not against the law but against

terrorism. that distinction would be lost on most filmmakers, and eventually their audiences. there was 24. it's centered around a counter terror prism age and by the name of jack bower. and every season is based on 24 hours of trying to avert this terrorist plot. i walker bo, torturing people sometimes killing them. but the audience is led to believe that he has no choice, but to do all the real quick things. so that show was fantastically popular and played a very big role in terms of creating a terrorism mindset. season for the show 24 had an ad campaign with a muslim family that looked very suburban. america. please come to me or not.

i can't even tell you the shock i felt when i saw that i'm here to tell you that i think that many people die because of it. drones up being dropped because we are the unionized countries i invaded because we are unionized because people do not have empathy with brown people. the whole land, which took over from 24 round from 2011 to 2020 and marked a shift from the kind of shoot him a cowboy narrative off 24 into obama mater war on terror. all the muslim characters, nefarious and terrible, except for one of the agent who is an iranian american, who proves her loyalty by being extremely patriotic. but your current state of mind makes your loyalty to him and to the agency, a very live issue. call the director,

not to worry. she's a good muslim, right? that showed how cultural knowledge of the enemy, good intelligence and diplomacy were important in terms of winning the war on terror. of course it also justified extra judicial killing. it justify torture and all the rest of it. so now you've got the air for the muslim who is a c h and but nobody stopped and asked for hold it. you know, is this now human? i think us, are you making us, you know, like everybody ask me that far as the speakers with experience and international finance, i had to help wake him be tell him would be about so damaging. it was for american coaches to be center, but not a single movie about how damaging it was for the people down after $911.00, any nuanced discussion of the islam of the world, or what it means to be muslim is vanquished. and what we get, in fact,

are just these empty slogans and cliches that take the place of real understanding or knowledge. so you get films like american sniper butcher, you've got to say kid on the avenue, the entire premise of the film that these people are terrorists who savagely attack innocence. they're not defending their own country from invasion, kind of mind to move. it feeds very pernicious stereotypes. there are very few films that actually show a nuanced portrayal of what context make tears impossible what drives young men to become tears. there are examples of film by morgan or maybe i use voices of god.

is the policy and film paradise? no, it's not a coincidence that the psalms are not american. these films show the complexity of the socio economic and geo political climate that push certain young men into the hands of terrorists organizations. so i understand, of course, no films articlemodel d, right, and these are multinational corporations that are interested in profit and they want to produce what sells in a way. but oftentimes, it rhymes with the official discourse and narrative of the state after so many years of you need dimensional reductive depictions of error muslims

and the middle east accordion says have been conditions to inspect certain kind of bad guys. i stopped in the blood was those one and it sprayed everywhere which may explain why the new york times. incidentally, winnings podcast, 2018 california with such a central character who went by the elliot abu, who told the times he wasn't islamic states. soldier had furnished the paper with tales of violence and barbara had multiple types. ah, we put him on the cross to leave a dagger in his heart. the podcast was downloaded millions of time, but the story turned out to be abu safe was real name is, sharon shouted. he is a fraud, a scientist who sold a fictional tale 2 times reporter,

meaning color market one. she would eventually, when a peabody award for the paper was forced to admit it, got it wrong. blaming and institutional failure. 16 years after acknowledging the failings in its post 9 coverage, promising to be more rigorous, the new york times had done it again. but the podcast remains online with this screen, the times has concluded that the episodes of cow feet that presented a child to his claims did not meet our standards for accuracy. and the times stood by telemachus, whose journalism has been called into question before describing her final report. so since muslims are demonized it's it's very easy for the media to embrace stories however false that cater to that stereotype of muslims and the new york times did precisely this. when i put out the

caliph it based on the testimony given by an impostor. i mean it was completely untrue, but it catered to that stereotype. it was lurid. it was salacious. it was audio snuff, poor people being crucified and stabbed in the heart. the blood was everywhere. what the hell did i just do? i'm a fake killer. now. i didn't give him a chance to repent, stabbed him, but because of the long denigration of muslims with both within popular culture and within the media. it was believable. those stereotypes that play unfair are uneasy for the politicians. filmmakers and news networks that acted as travel agents for the war on terror discourse, political leaders, the world over have adopted that language. in some cases have copied and pasted the legislation to surveil and ultimately their own opposition. i speak to

someone who was always against this sandra g. i always wanted to see the end of dictatorship. but i, like many iraqis did not want to see the destruction of an entire society and the dismantling of institutions that took 100 years to build. we did not have terrorism before 2003. we did not have car bombs. we have not have malicious running around killing people. the war on terror and the atmosphere it created has generated so much unnecessary fear amongst so many citizens. so it's become a very convenient tool to completely crush any kind of legitimate political opposition . the fear narrative has become far more pervasive since

$911.00. i yeah. it was a terrifying of the whole country. watch. thousands of people die on that day. but we remained in a perpetual state of, of the year. there were always new threats that were being played. one of the key accomplishments, i think of the war on terror is really to create a world that is a lot scarier in people's minds than it is in reality. what is really alarming for people who study the war on terra and who have a sense of the actual threat posed by islamist or jihad. this group is the extent to which this threat has been overblown and over inflated not just in the united states, but around the world to justify various course of policies. once you make people

afraid, you can use that to justify stripping away basic civil liberties. remember, we are the most watch, spied upon photograph, monitored population in human history. and when your government watches you 24 hours a day, you can't use the word liberty. and that's the relationship of a master and slave. and that is the real legacy of 911. the global citizens persuaded by political leaders and news organizations to fear unseen enemies have surrendered some of their basic civil rights in the name of staying safe. in september of 2001, the bush administration called the downing of the world trade center, an attack on freedom. however, 2 decades later, you've come to realize that the actual sustained attack on freedom lies in so much of what has happened since. it is a war on dressed up disguise as

a war one who ah with wild alarm, listen, design is our making serious effort in order to impede i'm to stop the tenant because here we meet with global use maintenance, the stormy stack. imagine obviously a lot of the stories that we cover heidi complex, so it's very important that we make them as understandable as we can do as many

people as possible know about how much they know about a given crisis or issue with the smell of that is overpowering as al jazeera correspondence, that's what we strive to do. ah hello, i'm barbara, sarah and london. these are the top stories on al jazeera, archbishop desmond to to has been described as a crusader in the struggle for freedom, justice, equality, and peace. at his funeral, his ashes are being interred at cape towns, cathedral of saint george, where he preached against racial injustice. for years, the anti apartheid hero died last sunday, a bulge of 90 south africa president syrian living room, a poser describe them as the moral compass of the nation. he was.