More Propaganda and Hype

Justin Raimondo has a very good dissection on Antiwar.com of an ABC News "exclusive" about Johnelle Bryant's face-to-face meeting with terrorist Mohamed Atta. Raimondo sniffs some propaganda here:

So now they're telling us that the fabulously wealthy Osama bin Laden, with all the resources of a worldwide terrorist empire at his disposal, was too cheap to put up a mere $650 thousand? Given all the long-range planning and additional resources he poured into the preparations for the 9/11 attacks, this hardly seems possible. Even more unbelievable is the idea that the hijackers had been counting on that government loan to finance their plans, and, when they didn't get it, had to radically shift course. What a load of malarkey! If true, that would have to mean that, on 9/11, myriad agencies of the US government were outfoxed by terrorists who are total retards.

He continues:

It's stories like this that make one wonder if the Office of Strategic Influence – remember them? – really disbanded after all. Or was that just their way of strategically influencing us? The only believable aspect of this tall tale is Bryant's claim of complete ignorance...

Towards the end of his essay, Raimondo brings up the exaggerated charges being thrown around regarding 'dirty bomb' suspect Jose Padilla.

Also on Padilla (aka "Abdullah al Muhajir"), check out the troubling questions about his sudden appearance in the news, as well as how to defuse the hype surrounding this story.