tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7720353173141418796.post2193424327312244820..comments2023-10-30T05:25:44.260-04:00Comments on Michele Kearney's Snuffysmith's Blog: Robert Fisk: Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11Michele Kearneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11381846168595340177noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7720353173141418796.post-71954523648314788362007-08-26T02:04:00.000-04:002007-08-26T02:04:00.000-04:00Robert Fisk Bio:Born July 12, 1946 in Maidstone, K...Robert Fisk Bio:<BR/><BR/>Born July 12, 1946 in Maidstone, Kent is a British journalist and is currently a Middle East correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent. He was married to the American journalist Lara Marlowe. He lives in Beirut, Lebanon, where he has resided for over 25 years.<BR/><BR/>Fisk is one of the few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama bin Laden - three times (all published by The Independent: December 6, 1993 July 10, 1996, and March 22, 1997).<BR/>During one of Fisk's interviews with Bin Laden, Fisk noted an attempt<BR/>by Bin Laden to possibly recruit him. Bin Laden said, "Mr Robert, one<BR/>of our brothers had a dream. He dreamed ... that you were a spiritual<BR/>person ... this means you are a true Muslim." Fisk replied, "Sheikh<BR/>Osama, I am not a Muslim ... I am a journalist". Bin Laden and Adam Gadahn, an alleged Al-Qaeda spokesman and translator of American birth, have apparently mentioned Robert Fisk in speeches. Osama bin Laden said Fisk's reporting was "neutral". According to a MEMRI report, on September 2, 2006, in a videotaped statement, Adam Gadahn, said that Fisk and George Galloway<BR/>have a "respect and admiration for Islam," have "sympathy for Muslims<BR/>their causes", and added "I say to them, isn't it time you stopped<BR/>sitting on the fence and came over to the side of truth?"<BR/><BR/>Fisk described the September 11, 2001 attacks of the "9/11 killers" as a "hideous crime against humanity." In the aftermath of 9/11, he called for an honest discussion for identifying explanations for the attacks. He believes that Al Qaeda ordered attacks on the United States because of U.S. policies in the Middle East, especially its support for Israel, and disagrees with President Bush's statements that the perpetrators of 9/11 did it because "they hate our freedoms."<BR/><BR/>After the U.S. launched its attack on Afghanistan shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Fisk was for a time transferred to Pakistan<BR/>to provide coverage of that conflict. While reporting from there, he<BR/>was attacked and beaten by a group of Afghan refugees but was also<BR/>saved from this attack by another Afghani refugee. In his graphic<BR/>account of his own beating, published in The Independent of December 10, 2001,<BR/>Fisk excused the attackers of responsibility ("I couldn't blame them<BR/>for what they were doing,") and said that, in his view, their<BR/>"brutality was entirely the product of others, of us — of we who had<BR/>armed their struggle against the Russians and ignored their pain and<BR/>laughed at their civil war<BR/>and then armed and paid them again for the 'War for Civilisation' just<BR/>a few miles away and then bombed their homes and ripped up their<BR/>families and called them 'collateral damage."<BR/><BR/>In August 2007 Fisk publicly expressed, for the first time, doubts<BR/>about the historical record of the September 11 attacks. In an article<BR/>for The Independent, he raised such concerns as missing aircraft parts, the melting point of steel, the collapse of 7 World Trade Center, and other familiar criticisms that have circulated within the 9/11 Truth Movement.Michele Kearneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11381846168595340177noreply@blogger.com