SOURCE: Welch, Matt. “Manufacturing Dissent: Noam Chomsky Calls the U.S. a Terrorist State.” National Post 4, no. 190 (8 June 2002): B1-B2.

In the following review, Welch discusses two works stemming from the September 11 terrorist attacks—September 11 and the U.S. War: Beyond the Curtain of Smoke and Noam Chomsky's 9-11.

Just before the kidnappers sawed through Daniel Pearl's neck, they forced the Wall Street Journal reporter to “confess” that his experiences in captivity had been equivalent to those of the prisoners being held by the United States in Guantanamo Bay.

“Uh, only now do I think about that some of the people in Guantanamo Bay must be in a similar situation,” Pearl said, unconvincingly, after the obligatory bit about how his “father's side is definitely Zionist.”

Meanwhile, in Cuba, suspected al-Qaeda members were being given prayer mats, individual copies of the Koran, reading glasses and three meals a day...