- FTW - On October 31, the
French daily Le Figaro dropped a bombshell. While in a Dubai hospital receiving
treatment for a chronic kidney infection last July, Osama bin Laden met
with a top CIA official - presumably the Chief of Station. The meeting,
held in bin Laden s private suite, took place at the American hospital
in Dubai at a time when he was a wanted fugitive for the bombings of two
U.S. embassies and this year s attack on the U.S.S. Cole. Bin Laden was
eligible for execution according to a 2000 intelligence finding issued
by President Bill Clinton before leaving office in January. Yet on July
14th he was allowed to leave Dubai on a private jet and there were no Navy
fighters waiting to force him down.
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- In 1985 Oliver North the only member of the Reagan-Bush
years who doesn't appear to have a hand in the current war - sent the Navy
and commandos after terrorists on the cruise ship Achille Lauro. In his
1991 autobiography 'Under Fire,' while describing terrorist Abu Abbas,
North wrote, "I used to wonder: how many dead Americans will it take
before we do something?" One could look at the number of Americans
Osama bin Laden is alleged to have killed before September 11 and ask the
same question.
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- It gets worse, much worse. A more complete timeline listing
crucial events both before and after the September 11th suicide attacks,
which have been blamed on bin Laden, establishes CIA foreknowledge of them
and strongly suggests that there was criminal complicity on the part of
the U.S. government in their execution. It also makes clear that the events
which have taken place since September 11th are based upon an agenda that
has little to do with the attacks.
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- One wonders how these events could have been ignored
by the major media or treated as isolated incidents. Failing that, how
could skilled news agencies avoid being outraged, or at least even just
a little suspicious?
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- 1. 1998 and 2000 - Former President George H.W. Bush
travels to Saudi Arabia on behalf of the privately owned Carlyle Group,
the 11th largest defense contractor in the U.S. While there he meets privately
with the Saudi royal family and the bin Laden family. [Source: Wall Street
Journal, Sept. 27, 2001. See also FTW, Vol. IV, No 7 The Best Enemies Money
Can Buy http://www.copvcia.com/members/carlyle.html
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- 2. Feb 13, 2001 - UPI Terrorism Correspondent Richard
Sale - while covering a trial of bin Laden's Al Qaeda followers - reports
that the National Security Agency has broken bin Laden's encrypted communications.
Even if this indicates that bin Laden changed systems in February it does
not mesh with the fact that the government insists that the attacks had
been planned for years.
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- 3. May 2001 - Secretary of State Colin Powell gives $43
million in aid to the Taliban regime, purportedly to assist hungry farmers
who are starving since the destruction of their opium crop in January on
orders of the Taliban regime. [Source: The Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2001].
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- 4. May, 2001 - Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage,
a career covert operative and former Navy Seal, travels to India on a publicized
tour while CIA Director George Tenet makes a quiet visit to Pakistan to
meet with Pakistani leader General Pervez Musharraf. Armitage has long
and deep Pakistani intelligence connections and he is the recipient of
the highest civil decoration awarded by Pakistan. It would be reasonable
to assume that while in Islamabad, Tenet, in what was described as 'an
unusually long meeting,' also met with his Pakistani counterpart, Lt. General
Mahmud Ahmad, head of the ISI. [Source The Indian SAPRA news agency, May
22, 2001.]
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- 5. July, 2001 - Three American officials: Tom Simmons
(former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan), Karl Inderfurth (former Assistant
Secretary of State for South Asian affairs) and Lee Coldren (former State
Department expert on South Asia), meet with Taliban representatives in
Berlin and tell them that the U.S. is planning military strikes against
Afghanistan in October. Also present are Russian and German intelligence
officers who confirm the threat. [Source: The Guardian, September 22, 2001;
the BBC, September 18, 2001.]
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- 6. Summer 2001 - According to a Sept. 26 story in Britain
s The Guardian, correspondent David Leigh reported that, "U.S. department
of defense official, Dr. Jeffrey Starr, visited Tajikistan in January."
The Guardian's Felicity Lawrence established that US Rangers were also
training special troops in Kyrgyzstan. There were unconfirmed reports that
Tajik and Uzbek special troops were training in Alaska and Montana.
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- 7. Summer 2001 (est.) - Pakistani ISI Chief General Mahmud
(see above) orders an aide to wire transfer $100,000 to Mohammed Atta,
who was according to the FBI, the lead terrorist in the suicide hijackings.
Mahmud recently resigned after the transfer was disclosed in India and
confirmed by the FBI. [Source: The Times of India, October 11, 2001.]
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- 8. June 2001 - German intelligence, the BND, warns the
CIA and Israel that Middle Eastern terrorists are 'planning to hijack commercial
aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American and
Israeli culture.' [Source: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 14,
2001.]
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- 9. Summer 2001 - An Iranian man phones U.S. law enforcement
to warn of an imminent attack on the World Trade Center in the week of
September 9th. German police confirm the calls but state that the U.S.
Secret Service would not reveal any further information. [Source: German
news agency - online.ie , September 14, 2001.]
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- 10. August 2001 - The FBI arrests an Islamic militant
linked to bin Laden in Boston. French intelligence sources confirm that
the man is a key member of bin Laden's network and the FBI learns that
he has been taking flying lessons. At the time of his arrest the man is
in possession of technical information on Boeing aircraft and flight manuals.
[Source: Reuters, September 13.]
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- 11. Summer 2001 - Russian intelligence notifies the CIA
that 25 terrorist pilots have been specifically training for suicide missions.
This is reported in the Russian press and news stories are translated for
FTW by a retired CIA officer.
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- 12. July 4-14, 2001 - Osama bin Laden receives treatments
for kidney disease at the American hospital in Dubai and meets with a CIA
official who returns to CIA headquarters on July 15th. [Source: Le Figaro,
October 31st, 2001.]
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- 13. August 2001 - Russian President Vladimir Putin orders
Russian intelligence to warn the U.S. government - in the strongest possible
terms - of imminent attacks on airports and government buildings. [Source:
MSNBC interview with Putin, September 15.]
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- 14. August/September, 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial
Average drops nearly 900 points in the three weeks prior to the attack.
A major stock market crash is imminent.
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- 15. Sept. 3-10, 2001 - MSNBC reports on September 16
that a caller to a Cayman Islands radio talk show gave several warnings
of an imminent attack on the U.S. by bin Laden in the week prior to 9/11.
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- 16. September 1-10, 2001 - 25,000 British troops and
the largest British Armada since the Falkland Islands War, part of Operation
'Essential Harvest,' are pre-positioned in Oman, the closest point on the
Arabian Peninsula to Pakistan. At the same time two U.S. carrier battle
groups arrive on station in the Gulf of Arabia just off the Pakistani coast.
Also at the same time, some 17,000 U.S. troops join more than 23,000 NATO
troops in Egypt for Operation 'Bright Star.' All of these forces are in
place before the first plane hits the World Trade Center. [Sources: The
Guardian, CNN, FOX, The Observer, International Law Professor Francis Boyle,
the University of Illinois.]
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- 17. September 6-7, 2001 - 4,744 put options (a speculation
that the stock will go down) are purchased on United Air Lines stock as
opposed to only 396 call options (speculation that the stock will go up).
This is a dramatic and abnormal increase in sales of put options. Many
of the UAL puts are purchased through Deutschebank/AB Brown, a firm managed
until 1998 by the current Executive Director of the CIA, A.B. 'Buzzy' Krongard.
[Source: The Herzliyya International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism,
http://www.ict.org.il/, September 21; The New York Times; The Wall Street
Journal.]
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- 18. September 10, 2001 - 4,516 put options are purchased
on American Airlines as compared to 748 call options. [Source: ICT - above]
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- 19. September 6-11, 2001 - No other airlines show any
similar trading patterns to those experienced by UAL and American. The
put option purchases on both airlines were 600% above normal. This at a
time when Reuters (September 10) issues a business report stating, 'Airline
stocks may be poised to take off.'
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- 20. September 6-10, 2001 - Highly abnormal levels of
put options are purchased in Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, AXA Re (insurance)
which owns 25% of American Airlines, and Munich Re. All of these companies
are directly impacted by the September 11 attacks. [Source: ICT, above;
FTW, Vol. IV, No.7, October 18, 2001, http://www.copvcia.com/members/oct152001.html.
]
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- 21. It has been documented that the CIA, the Israeli
Mossad and many other intelligence agencies monitor stock trading in real
time using highly advanced programs reported to be descended from Promis
software. This is to alert national intelligence services of just such
kinds of attacks. Promis was reported, as recently as June, 2001 to be
in Osama bin Laden s possession and, as a result of recent stories by FOX,
both the FBI and the Justice Department have confirmed its use for U.S.
intelligence gathering through at least this summer. This would confirm
that CIA had additional advance warning of imminent attacks. [Sources:
The Washington Times, June 15, 2001; FOX News, October 16, 2001; FTW, October
26, 2001, - http://www.copvcia.com/members/magic_carpet.html; FTW, Vol.
IV, No.6, Sept. 18, 2001 - http://www.copvcia.com/members/sept1801.html;
FTW, Vol. 3, No 7, 9/30/00 - www.copvcia.com/stories/may_2001/052401_promis.html
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- 22. September 11, 2001 - Gen Mahmud of the ISI (see above),
friend of Mohammed Atta, is visiting Washington on behalf of the Taliban.
[Source: MS-NBC, Oct. 7.]
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- 23. September 11, 2001, For 35 minutes, from 8:15 AM
until 9:05 AM, with it widely known within the FAA and the military that
four planes have been simultaneously hijacked and taken off course, no
one notifies the President of the United States. It is not until 9:30 that
any Air Force planes are scrambled to intercept, but by then it is too
late. This means that the National Command Authority waited for 75 minutes
before scrambling aircraft, even though it was known that four simultaneous
hijackings had occurred - an event that has never happened in history.
[Sources: CNN, ABC, MS-NBC, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times.]
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- 24. September 13, 2001 - China is admitted to the World
Trade Organization quickly, after 15 years of unsuccessful attempts. [Source:
The New York Times, Sept. 30, 2001.]
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- 25. September 15, 2001 - The New York Times reports that
Mayo Shattuck III has resigned, effective immediately, as head of the Alex
(A.B) Brown unit of Deutschebank.
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- 26. September 29, 2001 - The San Francisco Chronicle
reports that $2.5 million in put options on American Airlines and United
Airlines are unclaimed. This is likely the result of the suspension in
trading on the NYSE after the attacks which gave the Securities and Exchange
Commission time to be waiting when the owners showed up to redeem their
put options.
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- 27. October 10, 2001 - The Pakistani newspaper The Frontier
Post reports that U.S. Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain has paid a call on
the Pakistani oil minister. A previously abandoned Unocal pipeline from
Turkmenistan, across Afghanistan, to the Pakistani coast, for the purpose
of selling oil and gas to China, is now back on the table in view of recent
geopolitical developments.
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- 28. Mid October, 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average,
after having suffered a precipitous drop has recovered most of its pre-attack
losses. Although still weak, and vulnerable to negative earnings reports,
a crash has been averted by a massive infusion of government spending on
defense programs, subsidies for - affected industries and planned tax cuts
for corporations.
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- Now, let's go back to the October 31 story by Le Figaro
- the one that has Osama bin Laden meeting with a CIA officer in Dubai
this June.
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- The story says that, Throughout his stay in the hospital,
Osama Bin Laden received visits from many family members [There goes the
story that he's a black sheep!] and Saudi Arabian Emirate personalities
of status. During this time the local representative of the CIA was seen
by many people taking the elevator and going to bin Laden's room.
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- * Several days later the CIA officer bragged to his friends
about having visited the Saudi millionaire. From authoritative sources,
this CIA agent visited CIA headquarters on July 15th, the day after bin
Laden's departure for Quetta.
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- * According to various Arab diplomatic sources and French
intelligence itself, precise information was communicated to the CIA concerning
terrorist attacks aimed at American interests in the world, including its
own territory.
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- * Extremely bothered, they [American intelligence officers
in a meeting with French intelligence officers] requested from their French
peers exact details about the Algerian activists [connected to bin Laden
through Dubai banking institutions], without explaining the exact nature
of their inquiry. When asked the question, "What do you fear in the
coming days?" - the Americans responded with incomprehensible silence.
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- * On further investigation, the FBI discovered certain
plans that had been put together between the CIA and its 'Islamic friends'
over the years. The meeting in Dubai is, so it would seem, consistent with
"a certain American policy."
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- Even though Le Figaro reported that it had confirmed
with hospital staff that bin Laden had been there as reported, stories
printed on November 1 contained quotes from hospital staff that these reports
were untrue. On November 1, as reported by the Ananova press agency, the
CIA flatly denied that any meeting between any CIA personnel and Osama
bin Laden at any time.
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- In the most ironic twist of all, FTW has learned that
Le Figaro is owned by the Carlyle Group, the American defense contractor
which employs George Bush Sr., and which had as investors - until they
sold their stake on October 26 - the bin Laden family.
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- Who do you believe? In coming stories, FTW will prove
to you that this war, which according to Dick Cheney, may not end in our
lifetimes, has been in the works for at least four years.
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