-Caveat Lector- ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:33:38 +0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CIA-DRUGS] Re: Did bin Laden have help from U.S. friends? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for posting this. As an addendum: I've been following the story of this intriguing French-language book, full of juicy and embarrassing bin Laden revelations for the Bush administration, for two weeks now -- as it's been reported in major media all over the world except, oddly, in America. Here it is http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/11/15/20992.html in Pravda on 11/15, and http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/11/15/21088.html. Here it is via Inter Press Service http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/oneworld/20011115/wl/u_s_policy_towards_t aliban_influenced_by_oil_-_say_authors_1.html on 11/17, in The Irish Times http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2001/1119/wor8.htm on 11/19, and in tehelka.com http://www.tehelka.com/channels/currentaffairs/2001/nov/21/ca112101ame rica.htm on 11/21, among other places. Now that appeared in The Toronto Star, perhaps the story will wander a few miles south, across the border, and actually be read by Americans ... Helen H. Unknown News http://www.unknownnews.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ------- Forwarded message follows ------- > Date sent: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:48:11 -0500 (EST) > From: William Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [CTRL] Did bin Laden have help from U.S. friends? > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Send reply to: Conspiracy Theory Research List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > <A HREF="http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer? pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1006790798 783"> > http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer? pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_ > > PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1006790798783</A> > > > > Nov. 27, 02:00 EDT > Did bin Laden have help from U.S. friends? > > Thomas Walkom > COLUMNIST > > AN INTRIGUING new book, just published in France, details the curiously > amicable relationship between the regime of U.S. President George W. Bush and > Afghanistan's Taliban, a relationship that turned hostile only after the > terror attacks of Sept. 11. > > Ben Laden: La Verit� Interdite (Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth) is written by > former French spook Jean-Charles Brisard and journalist Guillaume Dasquie. > Both are said to be plugged into the murky world of intelligence. During his > time with French intelligence, Brisard was regarded as something of an expert > on bin Laden's finances. > > The nub of their argument is that the Bush regime's attitude toward the > Taliban - and even to bin Laden - was driven by the new president's fixation > on energy. A stable regime in Afghanistan would allow construction of an oil > and gas pipeline from the former Soviet republics in Central Asia to Pakistan > and the sea. And initially, Washington's best bet for a stable regime in > Afghanistan was the Taliban. > > From February, when the Taliban first offered to extradite bin Laden in > exchange for U.S. recognition, until August when negotiations stalled, the > Bush administration and the government it later labelled a terrorist regime > got along just fine. > > Indeed, the book quotes John O'Neill, a former director of anti- terrorism for > the Federal Bureau of Investigation as complaining that American and Saudi > oil interests acting through the U.S. State Department kept interfering with > efforts to track down bin Laden. > > In particular, the authors say, O'Neill was irked after the State Department > refused to let his FBI team return to Yemen to investigate the terrorist > bombing of the USS Cole there last year. Frustrated, he quit to take a > private sector job. Unfortunately for him, that job was as head of security > in New York's World Trade Center. O'Neill was killed on Sept. 11. > > Skeptics might argue that his death proved convenient for the authors. Now > there is no one to dispute their account of what he said. Certainly, Bin > Laden: The Forbidden Truth has the whiff of an old-fashioned conspiracy > theory starring the usual panoply of villains. > > Still, the details that Brisard and Dasquie provide (including the fact that > the Taliban hired the niece of former CIA director Richard Helms to > orchestrate their publicity) do not contradict what was already known about > the relationship between Washington and its soon-to-be arch-enemy. In fact, > they support it. > > Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid's well-regarded book Taliban: Islam, Oil > And The New Great Game in Central Asia outlines how oil politics has affected > U.S. policy in Afghanistan. The Taliban's unprecedented offer to extradite > bin Laden to a third country, well before the Sept. 11 attacks, was reported > by the Times of London in February. In September, this newspaper reported on > the often cozy relationship between Washington and the Taliban. > > Last month, the Washington Post reported that Sudan had offered in 1996 to > extradite bin Laden, who was wanted at that time for attacks on U.S. > servicemen in Saudi Arabia. > > However, the U.S. declined that offer. Instead, it agreed with Sudan's > decision to deport bin Laden and his entourage to a place where he couldn't > do any damage - Afghanistan. The official reason for U.S. reluctance was that > it wasn't sure a case against him could stand up in court. Saudi Arabia, the > other extradition destination proposed by the Sudanese, refused to take him > > But there is a pattern. Earlier this month, the Guardian, a U.K. newspaper, > reported that FBI agents had been told by the Bush administration to back off > investigating members of the bin Laden clan living in the U.S. In September, > the Wall Street Journal documented the lucrative business connections between > the bin Laden family and senior U.S. Republicans, including the president's > father, George Bush Sr. > > What are we to make of all of this? One possible conclusion is that the bin > Laden terror problem was allowed to get out of hand because bin Laden, > himself, had powerful protectors in both Washington and Saudi Arabia. If > that's true, no wonder the Bush administration prefers that he be killed > rather than allowed to testify in open court. > > The other conclusions - questions really - have to do with the justification > for the war on Afghanistan. If the Taliban unilaterally offered in February > to extradite bin Laden (an offer they repeated after Sept. 11), were they > just kidding? If not, was the war necessary? > > This question will become particularly important if the U.S. fails to find > the terrorist it says started this war, the man it allowed to go to > Afghanistan in the first place. > > > ------- End of forwarded message ------- > > "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so > long as I'm the dictator." > -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. > As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website > http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html > > Steve Wingate, Webmaster > ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES > http://www.anomalous-images.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Universal Inkjet Refill Kit $29.95 Refill any ink cartridge for less! Includes black and color ink. http://us.click.yahoo.com/kL8TtD/MkNDAA/ySSFAA/xYTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Please let us stay on topic and be civil. 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