Roy,Arundhati

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On September 29th, 2002, indian author Arundhati Roy criticised the pending war plans of the United States against the Taliban and mentioned a Sep20th statement by the FBI, who had doubts about the identities of some of the hijackers. On the same day President George Bush said, "We know exactly who these people are and which governments are supporting them." She asked, why the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon - were chosen as the targets of the attacks. Why not the Statue of Liberty? Roy explained the role of the CIA and ISI in Afghanistan and how the Taliban was funded by both of them: "Someone recently said that if Osama bin Laden didn't exist, America would have had to invent him. But, in a way, America did invent him. He was among the jihadis who moved to Afghanistan in 1979 when the CIA commenced its operations there. Bin Laden has the distinction of being created by the CIA and wanted by the FBI. From all accounts, it will be impossible to produce evidence (of the sort that would stand scrutiny in a court of law) to link Bin Laden to the September 11 attacks. ...What is Osama bin Laden? He's America's family secret. He is the American president's dark doppelganger." For quoting Roy's words, german TV-anchorman Ulrich Wickert (Tagesthemen) was almost fired and started a controversial discussion on media censorship. Sources: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4266289,00.html http://www.freitag.de/2001/42/01420201.php http://www.zeit.de/2001/42/Leben/200142_lebenshilfe_ethi.html