SHOCKING REVELATION: GREG SHERIDAN HAS ZIONIST FRIEND

Serial quote mangler Antony Loewenstein says the Australian's foreign editor Greg Sheridan falsely claimed, in prepared remarks at the Melbourne Writer's Festival, that Noam Chomsky and John Pilger "blamed the CIA for 9/11". Assuming the unlikely – that Loewenstein is even remotely close to what Sheridan actually said – what have Chomsky and Pilger had to say about 9/11 and the CIA?

Here's Pilger's view:

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan were the bases of the CIA's Operation Cyclone, which, with a treasury of $4bn and the secret approval of the White House, effectively created the Islamicist war party that attacked America.

Chomsky isn't quite so specific but still sees it the same:

Meanwhile, the terrorist forces that the CIA was organizing, arming, and training were pursuing their own agenda, right away. It was no secret. One of the first acts was in 1981 when they assassinated the President of Egypt, who was one of the most enthusiastic of their creators. In 1983, one suicide bomber, who may or may not have been connected, it's pretty shadowy, nobody knows. But one suicide bomber drove the US army-military out of Lebanon.
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Now why did they turn against the United States? Well that had to do with what they call the US invasion of Saudi Arabia. In 1990, the US established permanent military bases in Saudi Arabia which from their point of view is comparable to a Russian invasion of Afghanistan except that Saudi Arabia is way more important. That's the home of the holiest sites of Islam. And that is when their activities turned against the Unites States. If you recall, in 1993 they tried to blow up the World Trade Center. Got part of the way, but not the whole way and that was only part of it. The plans were to blow up the UN building, the Holland and Lincoln tunnels, the FBI building. I think there were others on the list. Well, they sort of got part way, but not all the way. One person who is jailed for that, finally, among the people who were jailed, was a Egyptian cleric who had been brought into the United States over the objections of the Immigration Service, thanks to the intervention of the CIA which wanted to help out their friend.

Regardless, Loewenstein has a shocking Sheridan revelation that might just be true: three Zionists were in the festival audience and one of them – shock, horror! – is a "good friend". Speaking of guilt by association, pay any attention to Loewenstein and everyone with a brain will assume you're an idiot.