Paul Zarembka wrote: > There are many beliefs out there, including that Osama bin Laden did it even > though he was never on the FBI most wanted list for 9/11.
It was well known at the the time of 911 that the US foreign policy elite and al-Qaeda were sworn enemies, as indicated by Pres. Clinton's efforts to kill Osama bin Laden with cruise missiles, the bombing of the USS Cole in the port of Aden in 2000, and the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya. This is not to deny that the US elite didn't help create al-Qaeda during the war against the USSR in Afghanistan (and maybe in Bosnia during the war there) and that the Bush people (except Richard Clarke) didn't see al-Qaeda as a big threat. Friends become enemies (Saddam Hussein once followed that path vis-a-vis the US elite), enemies become friends, and some enemies are seen as minor. The FBI most wanted list used to be totally about alleged domestic criminals. It's only recently that alleged international criminals (like Osama) were added. -- Jim Devine / "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." -- Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
