[wordup] Bin Laden ... Connect the Dots

Fri Nov 30 12:37:27 EST 2001

rense.com seems to specialize in ufo stories, bigfoot and crop circles so
take this however you want.  i'm posting it because their facts at least
seem fairly well documented.

adam.

Via: Sherman S. Wang <shermanw at ucla.edu>

interesting read, and the implications are quite scary if even half of
this is true...  - Sherman

From: http://www.rense.com/general16/bin.htm

Bin Laden Met With CIA In July...And Walked Away - Connect The Dots
By Michael C. Ruppert
Copyright 2001 All Rights Reserved
http://www.copvcia.com
11-2-1

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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].

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.]

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.]

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.

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.]

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.]

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.]

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.]

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.

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.]

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.]

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.

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.

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.]

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.]

18. September 10, 2001 - 4,516 put options are purchased on American
Airlines as compared to 748 call options. [Source: ICT - above]

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.'

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. ]

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

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.]

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.]

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.]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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."

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.

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.

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.