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The Path to 9/11 was paved by the Bushes: FBI ‘was told to back off bin Laden family’
by Open-Publishing - Sunday 10 September 20061 comment
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By now everyone has heard about the new docudrama being run on ABC “The Path to 9/11″ which illustrates how Clinton’s failures led to the tragic terrorists attacks in 2001.
This is the first Hollywood production I’ve seen that honestly depicts how the Clinton administration repeatedly bungled the capture of Osama Bin Laden. One astonishing sequence in “The Path to 9/11″ shows the CIA and the Northern Alliance surrounding Bin Laden’s house in Afghanistan. They’re on the verge of capturing Bin Laden, but they need final approval from the Clinton administration in order to go ahead. They phone Clinton, but he and his senior staff refuse to give authorization for the capture of Bin Laden, for fear of political fall-out if the mission should go wrong and civilians are harmed.
It turns out the finger pointing scene is completely fabricated. Who would someone do something like that and why?
Berger objected to the reported portrayal of him refusing to authorize a strike targeting bin Laden when CIA operatives had the al Qaeda leader in their sights.”No such episode ever occurred - nor did anything like it,”
Albright called a reported depiction of her in one scene as “false and defamatory.”
Is it possible that this story has been manufactured to cover up the Bush Administration’s responsibility in paving the path to 9/11? Reading about the movie, I am suddenly reminded of a BBC report by Greg Palast claiming that the FBI ‘was told to back off bin Laden family’...
London: United States special agents were told to back off the bin Laden family and the Saudi royals soon after George Bush became president, although that has all changed since September 11, a BBC television program has claimed
BBC2’s Newsnight also said on Tuesday night that it had secret documents from the FBI investigation into the terrorist attacks which showed that despite claims that Osama bin Laden is the black sheep of the family, at least two other US-based members are suspected of links with a possible terrorist organisation.
The program said it had obtained evidence that the FBI was on the trail of bin Laden family members living in the US before September 11. A document showed that special agents from the Washington field office were investigating Abdullah, a close relative of Osama, because of his relationship with the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), a suspected terrorist organisation, it said.
The former head of the American visa bureau in Jeddah from 1987 to 1989, Michael Springman, told the program: “In Saudi Arabia I was repeatedly ordered by high-level State Department officials to issue visas to unqualified applicants - people who had no ties either to Saudi Arabia or to their own country. I complained there. I complained here in Washington ... and I was ignored.” He added: “What I was doing was giving visas to terrorists, recruited by the CIA and Osama bin Laden to come back to the United States for training to be used in the war in Afghanistan against the then Soviets.”
It seems that the Bushes friendship with the Bin Ladens have more to do with Osama being successful. Strangely both the Bushes and Bin Ladens have profited from the subsequent war on terror...
If the U.S. boosts defense spending in its quest to stop Osama bin Laden’s alleged terrorist activities, there may be one unexpected beneficiary: Mr. bin Laden’s family.
Among its far-flung business interests, the well-heeled Saudi Arabian clan - which says it is estranged from Osama - is an investor in a fund established by Carlyle Group, a well-connected Washington merchant bank specializing in buyouts of defense and aerospace companies.
Through this investment and its ties to Saudi royalty, the bin Laden family has become acquainted with some of the biggest names in the Republican Party. In recent years, former President Bush, ex-Secretary of State James Baker and ex-Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci have made the pilgrimage to the bin Laden family’s headquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
...even more strange, with the most incredible military surveilance in the world, unlimited cash resources and five years...Osama has still not been stopped. If I were a ‘conspiracy theorist’, or had any capacity for logic or ability to put two and two together...I might think there is something fishy going on here.
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11 September 2006, 03:06
It is only money. Every mans life on this earth is short. Each of us is only here for a short length of time. Like in the Bible, What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but looses his own soul? As for the profiteers at the expense of the misery of others, May the Lord have mercy on them! I am glad it is not me that will have to answer! We must continually pray for our leaders and the decisions they make that preserves our well being. It is not easy. Evil is alive an well on the planet earth.