Ali,Tariq

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Pakistani scholar, filmmaker, editor, author ("Book of Saladin", "The Clash of Fundamentalisms") and Leftist. In late 2001, Tariq Ali spoke at Columbia with author Edward Said (edwardsaid.org) on the Sep11th attack. Ali accused the US State involvement for their blatant colonialism and their "solipism of the American State." His implication is that Islamic terrorists simply weren't smart enough to pull this stunt off in secret, a theory shared by some of the less confident Islamic proles in the streets of Lahore that Ali interviewed. "But Bahgi, we are not smart enough to do this." The American state is a nexus for global hegemon, but not the monad for all the world's evil, which is why comparative polisci folk scoff at notions of state involvement is 9/11. http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Ali.html Tariq Ali appeared in the "Left Business Observer" No. #98, October 2001. Another popular interview with Ali, that Doug Henwood conducted on his radio show ("Behind the News," Thursdays 5-6 PM Eastern time, WBAI http://www.wbai.org/ 99.5 FM New York) was on September 20, 2001. On July 8th, 2002 Ali gave an interview to Counterpunch. ("How the Bush Used 9/11 to Remap the World") http://www.counterpunch.org/tariq0708.html Filmmaker Tariq Ali was born in Lahore (and is the nephew of a former chief of Pakistani intelligence), but has lived in Britain since the 1960s. Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/feature_tariqali.shtml