Ze Frank recalls what he was doing five years ago on September 11th. Sombre yet still with that Ze Frank tinge of wry humour.
Meanwhile the ABC production The Path to 9/11 which stars Harvey Keitel will screen this Sunday and Monday on BBC Two. Rumour has it that the blame for the attacks that day are laid at the feet of the administration of President Clinton who apparently were so caught up in the Lewinsky affair that dropped the ball and failed to stop Bin Laden when they had the chance.
Wow, have I woken up in some bizarre parallel universe where things are very similar to my own but oh so slightly different. Was it not Bush who was the POTUS at that point and had been for several months and whose administration being informed of the threat that Al Qaeda posed instead chose to focus their attention on giving tax cuts, establishing a New American Century and planning regime change in Iraq.
In any case I expect that it and the many other documentaries and news reports over the next few days will do Bin Laden’s job for him by plunging the populations of the US and UK into a state of terror yet again. Who needs to blow up planes and buildings when the public can be forced into a state of terror by a box of flashing lights in the corner of their living rooms?
