Ahmed 's later book , '' The War on Truth : 9/11 , Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism '' , follows up from his first book , with a critical evaluation of the findings of the 9/11 Commission . In '' The War on Truth '' , he argues that the 9/11 attacks on New York City and Washington were facilitated due to US government relations with key state-sponsors of al-Qaeda in the Middle East and North Africa such as Saudi Arabia , Pakistan , Azerbaijan and many others . The book was praised by '' The Independent '' : " In his disturbing and clearly evidenced book , The War on Truth , Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed traces the unholy games played with Islamicist terrorists by the US , and through acquiescence by the UK , flirting with them when it suited and then turning against them . Al-Qa ’ ida has been used as an instrument of western statecraft and for now is the enemy . Well , not quite . Pakistan ’s ISI is quite chummy with the Bin Laden groupies and , well , we have to keep Pakistan on side as they know so many of our secrets . So it goes on . " In response to conspiracy theories of 9/11 , Ahmed wrote on his blog in 2014 : " I 'm on record in a number of places pointing out that simple physical anomalies can not be used to justify conclusions of a government conspiracy . ... So I kind of end up pissing off basically everyone , ' troofers ' , ' anti-troofers ' , and a lot in between . " Ahmed 's book , '' A User 's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization : And How to Save It '' , received a notice in '' The Guardian '' which commented : " Ahmed could be charged with a certain ebullience in his delineating of potential catastrophe , which will necessitate ' the dawn of a post-carbon civilisation ' . But his arguments are in the main forceful and well-sourced , with particularly good sections on agribusiness , US policies of ' energy security ' , and what he terms the ' securitisation ' of ordinary life by western governments . " In The Oil Drum , Jeff Vail , a former US Department of Interior analyst specialising in energy infrastructure , " highly recommends " the book , concluding : " In the end , if the crisis of our modern civilization can be solved — or at least if the transition to whatever replaces it can be softened — then it will be through a syncretic understanding of the system of threats we face , such as that presented by Dr. Ahmed , that pave the way . " A review in '' Marx & Philosophy of Books '' criticises the book 's approach to systems theory with regards to Ahmed 's proposed solutions . Although the reviewer , Dr Robert Drury King , an assistant professor at Sierra Nevada College specialising in systems , acknowledges that " Ahmed draws convincingly and commandingly on a number of fields , including climate sciences , geology , monetary and financial economics , and systems theory , among many others . The impressive scope of the book owes to the fact that Ahmed is very deliberately a wide-ranging , interdisciplinary scholar " - he questions whether there is " a clear and feasible notion of systematicity " that is " applied methodologically to the resolution of the identified crises . " Following the publication of the book , Ahmed 's chance meeting with filmmaker Dean Puckett led to the development of a feature documentary , '' The Crisis of Civilization '' . It was received positively by Hitcham Yezza , editor of '' Ceasefire '' magazine , for whom the " film is necessary viewing , not just for activists but for anyone who ’s planning to hang around this planet for the foreseeable future . " In Hitchens ' 2010 essay in '' Vanity Fair '' about Gore Vidal 's later writings , he also criticises Ahmed , who Vidal drew on for his 9/11 essay in '' The Observer '' . Hitchens wrote : " Mr. Ahmed on inspection proved to be a risible individual wedded to half-baked conspiracy-mongering . ” Ahmed responded with a letter to the editor , published by '' Vanity Fair '' , asserting that Hitchens 's article contained " major inaccuracies " : " Hitchens ’s reduction of me to ' conspiracy-mongering ' and as having a ' one-room sideshow ' institute is contrasted by the fact that I ’m an academic at the University of Sussex ; my book , '' The War on Freedom '' , was used by the 9/11 commission ; I ’ve testified before the U.S. Congress ; I ’ve given evidence to a U.K. parliamentary inquiry ; and my institute is advised by a board of 20 leading scholars
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