I've justed posted a diary on the European Tribune, which doesn't seem to be getting much attention, despite some encouragement from readers there to post on the topic.

Please come and recommend the diary, and post comments !!! I would be most appreciative !! Also, Euro Trib has a lot of other interesting articles about alternative energy, economics and European elections.

Here's the diary intro:

Deconstructing the Official Story

At the heart of the arguments for the establishment of "security first" priorities and police-state societies, including video-surveillance, domestic wiretaping, increased paramilitary and police forces, and so on, are the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The referencing of the horrible events of that day have become so ubiquitously mentioned as to be essentially a self-propetuating justification among politicians and public officials, both in North America and Europe. The terrorist attacks that arguably "changed everything," and most certainly established the bellicose war-footing of the Bush administration, obliged European governments to express solidarity with the American "anti-terrorism" cause, while at the same time opening the door to participation in the dubious expansion of empire, which we can observe with secret CIA prisons in Europe, or military and financial contributions to the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The rest here