New York Sun: U.N. Official Urged Commission To Study Neocon Role in 9/11

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U.N. Official Urged Commission To Study Neocon Role in 9/11

By ELI LAKE, STAFF REPORTER OF THE SUN | April 9, 2008

WASHINGTON — A new U.N. Human Rights Council official assigned to monitor Israel is calling for an official commission to study the role neoconservatives may have played in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

On March 26, Richard Falk, Milbank professor of international law emeritus at Princeton University, was named by unanimous vote to a newly created position to report on human rights in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. While Mr. Falk’s specialty is human rights and international law, since the attacks in 2001, he has devoted some of his time to challenging what he calls the “9-11 official version.”

On March 24 in an interview with a radio host and former University of Wisconsin instructor, Kevin Barrett, Mr. Falk said, “It is possibly true that especially the neoconservatives thought there was a situation in the country and in the world where something had to happen to wake up the American people. Whether they are innocent about the contention that they made that something happen or not, I don’t think we can answer definitively at this point. All we can say is there is a lot of grounds for suspicion, there should be an official investigation of the sort the 9/11 commission did not engage in and that the failure to do these things is cheating the American people and in some sense the people of the world of a greater confidence in what really happened than they presently possess.”

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http://www.nysun.com/news/foreign/un-official-urged-commission-study-neocon-role-911

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Indeed. In this article, ostensibly about Falk's 9/11 stance, reporter Eli Lake reveals his true mission; to get Falk kicked off his spot watchdogging human rights violations in the Israel/Palestine conflict.

It starts off with a misleading headline; Falk has urged no Commission to study anything, he said, "there should be an official investigation of the sort the 9/11 commission did not engage in", and he didn't do it in his capacity as a UN official. He made these comments on a back-water internet radio show with an audience of "hundreds".

Lake goes on to reference Falk's metaphor comparing the treatment of Palestinians to the Holocaust;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7335875.stm

This is a hit piece. And a pretty transparent one, at that.