Kiriakou on September 11 2001

CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou is a man I trust. He says, as I assumed, that Al Qaeda carried out the September 11 atrocities. He suspects that the Israeli secret services knew about it in advance and didn't warn America.

He says this would explain "the dancing Israelis" who seemed overjoyed watching the buildings hit.

I have no doubt that did Mossad know in advance about the plot Israel would have kept schtum as this was obviously in Israel's interests. It was their duty to do so.

Some people think George W Bush was responsible for September 11. This is obviously absurd. Had he tried it it would have gone wrong.

September 11 at the time seemed to me something almost bound to happen because of American support for Israel but Americans instead of distancing themselves from Israel went to war with terrorism and did themselves infinitely more harm than Al Qaeda had.