Michel Chossudovsky: Who Really Benefited by our 911 Attack?

Look at reality, and not so-called conspiracy theories. Dare to ask who actually benefited from our nation's 9/11 calamity. It is now time to ask who actually benefited from America's disaster. Here are the troubling facts: 1) The New York Port Authority was having difficulty renting space in the Twin Towers. In addition, there was a huge asbestos liability. The Towers were sold to new owner Larry Silverstein just three months prior to the tragic event. He, in turn, managed to get an insurance contract for a big payout, if any of the Tower buildings were hit by an airplane. Our first move, after the towers were hit, was to bomb Afghanistan, based on the assumption that people there were involved. Thus, the local heroin industry of that country was reactivated, and local and international drug cartels rediscovered a "gold mine" of money supply. Bin Laden and the Taliban closed down that trade to a trickle, but after the bombing shake-up people connected with the heroin trade in Central Asia, reaping billions of dollars. This is fact, and NOT fiction. Investors of profitable corporations connected to the military-industrial complex reaped enormous profits. War has always been profitable for some industries, though for public consumption, they always say that profits are NOT their motives! (Since the Vietnam War, in which I served as Advisory Team Leader, my team and I, in addition to killing the enemy, did use enormous quantities of small arms ammunition, and requested many air force missions to keep us out of hot water.) Prior to 9/11, some US corporate stocks immediately went up in value, as did some military contracts.