Michael Ledeen-- 9/11 Suspect?

One real problem 9/11 skeptics and researchers have had is putting names to who was really behind the 9/11 attacks, if we assume it was a government job.

Mike Ruppert put out Dick Cheney, as the guy who was running the airplanes on 9/11, but that certainly has gone nowhere. And frankly, I doubt that Cheney, as much of a slug as he is, was really the mastermind of 9/11. Previously, I posted on how Cheney knew who was behind 9/11 and acted as a go-between with the planners and Bush. This latter theory fits in with 9/11 being a type of military coup.

Webster Tarpley, in his excellent book, "Synthetic Terror 9/11: Made in USA", seems to point out the neocons for being behind 9/11, but he doesn't really name names. Tarpley also talks about some obscure grand strategic planners for the Pentagon, such as Andrew Marshal and Albert Wohlstetter, and seems to hint they were behind 9/11 somehow. These Wohlstetter died back in 1997 but may have laid the groundwork for 9/11. Both Marhsal and Wohlstetter imagined nuclear war scenarios that would sacrifice millions of Americans. Thus, they were willing to have innocent people die, and their mode of thinking could have led to 9/11. But Tarpley never really points the finger at one person for being behind 9/11-- most liklely because the evidence is not there yet.

But I would like to talk about one person we should consider for being behind 9/11: Michael Ledeen. Ledeen is a major neoconservative, but what makes him a very strong candidate for being involved in 9/11 is his affinity for Italian fascists and the synthetic terror operations they ran under the "Strategy of Tension" program. Here is an excerpt from an Asia Times article about Ledeen:

To Ledeen, whose own contacts with the mullahs in the Iran-Contra affair 15 years ago remain the source of some mystery, Iran is "the mother of modern terrorism". And terrorism has been Ledeen's bread and butter since at least the late 1970s, when he consulted for Italian military intelligence....

Ledeen's right-wing Italian connections - including alleged ties to the P-2 Masonic Lodge that rocked Italy in the early 1980s - have long been a source of speculation and intrigue, but he returned to Washington in 1981 as "anti-terrorism" advisor to the new secretary of state, Al Haig.

In other words, Ledeen has connections with both Islamic terrorists as well as right-wing terrorists in Italy. Thus, Ledeen is as familiar with synthetic terrorism as anyone who is influential with the Bush administration (as the article makes a point of saying).

Without belaboring the point, I believe that Michael Ledeen, even though he is not officially part of the government, should be at the top of the list as one of the planners or catalysts for 9/11.

Ledeen also has contacts with I. "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's Chief of Staff, and thus has access to someone who clearly was involved with 9/11 heavily.

Unfortunately, all we can do is speculate at this point, since the media won't touch these issues and the US government is obviously uninterested in who really was behind 9/11.

I will simply close the case with a quote from Ledeen himself, from his book "Universal Fascism":

In order to achieve the most noble accomplishments, the leader may have to 'enter into evil.' This is the chilling insight that has made Machiavelli so feared, admired and challenging... we are rotten.... It’s true that we can achieve greatness if, and only if, we are properly led.

Note: here is a cool site that has more on Ledeen and terrorism.

Note 2: Speculation has also centered on whether Ledeen was behind the forgery of the documents purporting to show that Saddam Hussein was trying ot obtain uranium from Niger.