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9/11 Blame Game: CIA Falls
on Its Sword Again
Kurt
Nimmo
Wednesday Aug 22, 2007
If 3,000 people had not died on September 11, 2001, a report
released by the CIA’s inspector general would be laughable.
“A CIA report released Tuesday blames the top leadership
of the agency for major lapses in fighting al-Qaida and outlines
how intelligence officials missed numerous opportunities to thwart
two hijackers prior to the Sept. 11 attacks,” reports NBC.
“The 19-page executive summary, written by the CIA’s
inspector general, finds extensive fault with the actions of former
director George Tenet and other CIA leaders.”
And what, pray tell, are these “major lapses” in
“fighting al-Qaida,” the mostly smoke and mirrors
terrorist organization named after a mujahideen database?
“Tenet and the agencies under his supervision lacked a
comprehensive strategic plan to counter al-Qaida prior to Sept.
11.” In fact, as Dan Rather reported, Osama was admitted
to a Pakistani hospital on September 10, 2001. “If the CBS
report by Dan
Rather is accurate and Osama had indeed been admitted to the
Pakistani military hospital on September 10, 2001, courtesy of
America’s ally, he was in all likelihood still in hospital
in Rawalpindi on the 11th of September, when the attacks occurred,”
writes Michel
Chossudovsky, citing mainstream news reports. “In all
probability, his whereabouts were known to US officials on the
morning of September 12, when Secretary of State Colin Powell
initiated negotiations with Pakistan, with a view to arresting
and extraditing bin Laden.” In the months leading up to
Osama’s hospital visit, the CIA head of station at the American
Hospital in Dubai, UAE, paid Osama a visit. Le Figaro reported:
Dubai… was the backdrop of a secret meeting between Osama
bin Laden and the local CIA agent in July [2001]. A partner
of the administration of the American Hospital in Dubai claims
that “public enemy number one” stayed at this hospital
between the 4th and 14th of July. While he was hospitalized,
bin Laden received visits from many members of his family as
well as prominent Saudis and Emiratis. During the hospital stay,
the local CIA agent, known to many in Dubai, was seen taking
the main elevator of the hospital to go [up] to bin Laden’s
hospital room. A few days later, the CIA man bragged to a few
friends about having visited bin Laden. Authorized sources say
that on July 15th, the day after bin Laden returned to Quetta
[Pakistan], the CIA agent was called back to headquarters. In
the pursuit of its investigations, the FBI discovered “financing
agreements” that the CIA had been developing with its
“Arab friends” for years. The Dubai meeting is,
so it would seem, within the logic of “a certain American
policy.’”
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Of course, we are not supposed to know about this “certain
American policy,” although it is common knowledge, at least
to readers of Le Figaro and the London Times.
The CIA would have us believe Tenet and “other CIA leaders”
were clueless—and maybe they were. However, as Chossudovsky
noted in November, 2003, the hospital mentioned above “is
directly under the jurisdiction of the Pakistani Armed Forces,
which has close links to the Pentagon. U.S. military advisers
based in Rawalpindi. work closely with the Pakistani Armed Forces.
Again, no attempt was made to arrest America’s best known
fugitive, but then maybe bin Laden was serving another ‘better
purpose’. Rumsfeld claimed at the time that he had no knowledge
regarding Osama’s health…. Needless to say, the CBS
report is a crucial piece of information in the 9/11 jigsaw. It
refutes the administration’s claim that the whereabouts
of bin Laden are unknown. It points to a Pakistan connection,
it suggests a cover-up at the highest levels of the Bush administration.”
But, for the neocons, ever aware of the feeblemindedness of the
average American (except when it comes to football scores), such
refutations are less than meaningless, as such a “report”
can be splashed across corporate media headlines and few challenge
the bankrupt and wholly transparent premise that the CIA was out
to lunch on September 11, 2001. In fact, the CIA was squarely
in the driver’s seat.
Moreover, if the CIA was indeed interested in hunting down and
smoking out Osama and his dour cave-dwelling patsy terrorists,
they may have asked General Mahmoud Ahmad, head of Pakistan’s
military intelligence, the ISI—responsible, at the behest
of the CIA, for creating “al-Qaeda” in the first place—as
he was in Washington at the time of the attacks, brunching it
up with then Republican Congress critter Porter Goss and Democratic
critter Bob Graham. It is said they were discussing Osama. In
fact, as the Guardian reported at the time, Ahmad had a bagman,
one Omar Sheikh, deliver $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, or somebody
who claimed to be Atta.
Small world, no?
Sure it is—and I have a bridge in Brooklyn you might be
interested in purchasing.
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