9/11
We all know what happened on September 11th, 2001. But for the people of Chile the date has a different, though related resonance. It is the anniversary of the seizure of power by the military, working hand-in-glove with the American Central Intelligence Agency. This led to the unleashing of the Chilean military’s blood lust upon the country people, whom they were supposed to protect.
Riddle me this: surely the overthrow of a sovereign nation’s democratically elected government by that of another, using disaffected internal thugs simply because it didn’t like its economic and social policy; the murder of that country’s president (also democratically elected), as well as the killing, disappearance and torture of thousand of people, surely all these were acts of terrorism as heinous as the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York? George Bush St was a senior CIA operative at the time, though as for George W. Bush he was probably sizzled somewhere, and he probably didn’t know where Chile was anyway.
The events of 9/11 were carried out by a small terrorist group, yet the events I have just outlined above were perpetrated on Chile in 1973 by the government of the United States. Chile’s greatest enemy was the then US president, “Tricky Dick” Nixon, a liar and a cheat – “there’ll be no whitewash at the White House.” !
I sometimes think the US government’s attitude towards Al Qaeda stems not from moral revulsion or righteous outrage, but from plain jealousy. They are both, more or less in the same line of business, but Al Qaaeda does it far more efficiently and cheaply, using fewer men and resources. If we ever find out how much Al Qaeda spent on the logistics and planning of 9/11, I think it will be shown that it was less than the cost of one day of George W. Bush’s “war on terrorism.
Let us remember all the innocent victims of 9/11, both of 1973 and 2001.

