9/11 as False Flag: Why International Law Must Dare to Care

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aut.relation.endpage392
aut.relation.issue3en_NZ
aut.relation.journalAfrican Journal of International and Comparative Lawen_NZ
aut.relation.pages21
aut.relation.startpage371
aut.relation.volume25en_NZ
dc.contributor.authorBenjamin, A
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-15T03:49:01Z
dc.date.available2017-08-15T03:49:01Z
dc.date.copyright2017-07-20en_NZ
dc.date.issued2017-07-20en_NZ
dc.description.abstractAt the heart of contemporary international law lies a paradox: The attacks on the United States of September 11, 2001 have justified sixteen years of international war, yet the official international community, embodied principally in the United Nations, has failed to question or even scrutinize the U.S. Government’s account of those attacks. Despite the emergence of an impressive and serious body of literature that impugns the official account and even suggests that 9/11 may have been a classic (if unprecedentedly monstrous) false-flag attack, international statesmen, following the lead of scholars, have been reluctant to wade into what appears to be a very real controversy. African nations are no strangers to the concept of the false flag tactic, and to its use historically in the pursuit of illegitimate geo-political aims and interests. This Article draws on recent African history in this regard, as well as on deeper twentieth century European and American history, to lay a foundation for entertaining the possibility of 9/11-as-false-flag. This Article then argues that the United Nations should seek to fulfill its core and incontrovertible “jury” function of determining the existence of inter-state aggression in order to exercise a long-overdue oversight of the official 9/11 narrative.en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationAfrican Journal of International and Comparative Law, Volume 25 Issue 3, Page 371-392.
dc.identifier.doi10.3366/ajicl.2017.0200en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn1755-1609en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/10739
dc.publisherEdinburgh University Press
dc.relation.urihttp://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/ajicl.2017.0200en_NZ
dc.rightsThis is an Author’s Original Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in African Journal of International and Comparative Law. The Version of Record is available online at: http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/ajicl.2017.0200
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccessen_NZ
dc.subjectFalse flag; International investigation; Pretextual self-defence; UN jury function
dc.title9/11 as False Flag: Why International Law Must Dare to Careen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
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