Margaret Kimberley: Fahrenheit 9/11: Less From Moore

New Jersey was the perfect place to see the twin towers of the World Trade Center. On the morning of September 11, 2001, a New Jersey resident saw a group of men standing on the roof of a van as they posed for photos with the burning World Trade Center towers in the background. She was stunned not only because they were taking pictures, but because they appeared to be in a celebratory mood.
The men, all Israelis, were arrested later that afternoon. The FBI concluded that two of them were Israeli intelligence operatives. The extraordinary tale raises a series of questions about Israeli intelligence activity in the United States at the time of the 9/11 terror attacks. Were the hijackers under surveillance by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service? If Israel had suspicions that an attack would take place, what if anything did that government do with the information?
Not surprisingly, the mainstream media has not posed any of these questions. Apparently even some liberals are afraid to as well, liberals like Michael Moore. Michael Moore has been elevated to demigod status because of the vitriolic right wing attacks on his new film, Fahrenheit 9/11. Fahrenheit 9/11 asks serious questions about Bush family connections to Saudi Arabia, possible Saudi connections to the terror attacks, and the use of September 11th as a rationale for war.
The film punctures the American bubble of ignorance that prevents only the most intrepid news junkie from knowing anything about our country’s dealings with the rest of the world. Curiously, the crusading Michael Moore has nothing to say about the role played by Israel and its allies in pushing for the war in Iraq or about the Israeli intelligence activity that took place in the United States at the time of the terror attacks. . . ."