ERESH JAMAL: While commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Japanese
attack against Pearl Harbour on December 7, 2001, the then US President
George W Bush had even said that 9/11
was, for the US, “a second Pearl Harbour.” Interestingly, since the
attack on Pearl Harbour, many declassified US government documents
including one from the Office of Naval Intelligence quoted by the likes
of The Independent (UK), The Telegraph (UK), The Guardian, among others,
have led many to theorise that it had let Japan attack Pearl Harbour,
knowing that that would shift public opinion (set against war at the
time) in favour of the US entering the Second World War.
