Bin Laden: the former CIA ‘client’ obsessed with training pilots
Apart from the contents – which are difficult to verify – the very fact of publishing such a detailed report two days after 9/11 is surprising.
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Bush Signs Bill Authorizing Detainee Interrogations, Military Commissions
It appears that two alleged Al Qaeda leaders accused of masterminding 9/11 will be brought before military tribunals. One of them, Ramzi Binalshibh, was arrested in September 2002. The other, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, was apparently arrested in March 2003. They have been kept in a secret location since then until September 2006. What happened to them in this secret location is anyone’s guess.
Read more . . . Ali Mohamed: Genuine terrorist or US agent?
Defense lawyers and many other observers believe that Mohamed, who has not yet been sentenced, is now cooperating with the United States, though the government has never confirmed this… Larry Johnson, the former State Department counterterrorism chief, has a more skeptical interpretation: Putting Mohamed on trial would unearth material extremely embarrassing for the government.
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Bin Laden’s man in Silicon Valley
"Ali A. Mohamed [aka Ali Amriki] was the California connection to Osama bin Laden’s fearsome terrorist organization — an architect of horrific acts of violence against his adopted country, even as he lived a quiet suburban lifestyle in Silicon Valley… Now [Sept. 21, 2001] in prison and presumed to be a government informant, Mohamed could be a key connection for U.S. investigators probing bin Laden’s links to the suicide hijackers who flew jetliners into the World Trade Center and Pentagon last week, some experts say."
Read more . . . Lethal operations are under way to crush bin Laden
Oct. 21, 2001, 11:12AMLethal operations are under way to crush bin Laden By BOB WOODWARDWashington Post WASHINGTON — President Bush last month signed an intelligence order directing the CIA to undertake its most sweeping and lethal covert action since the … Read more . . .
FBI says, ?No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11′
Rex Tomb, chief of investigative publicity for the FBI says: "The FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11."
Read more . . . C.I.A. Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden
The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials confirmed Monday.
Read more . . . FBI says, ‘No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11’
When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on Bin Laden?s Most Wanted web page, Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI, said, ?The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden?s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.?
Al Qaeda Training Camp passed from Control of CIA to Bin Laden in 1995
Classified French DGSE intelligence report Al Qaeda Training Camp passed from Control of CIA to Bin Laden in 1995 Wayne Madsenhttp://www.apisgroup.org/article.html?id=3178 A confidential "France Only" report of the French intelligence service, Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure (DGSE), states that … Read more . . .
First warrant to arrest Bin Laden was issued by Libya
British intelligence paid large sums of money to an al-Qaeda cell in Libya in a doomed attempt to assassinate Colonel Gadaffi in 1996 and thwarted early attempts to bring Osama bin Laden to justice.
Read more . . . US, Sudan Squabble over bin Laden’s Fate
US, Sudan Squabble over bin Laden’s Fate US demands for Sudan to hand over its extensive files about bin Laden (see March 8, 1996-April 1996) escalate into demands to hand over bin Laden himself. Bin Laden has been living in … Read more . . .
Timeline: The search for Bin Laden
Timeline: The search for Bin Laden http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2827261.stmBBC 23 April 2006 Since the 11 September 2001 attacks, a number of video tapes, audio recordings, faxes and other statements have been attributed to Osama Bin Laden. But although the US has … Read more . . .
Timeline: Osama bin Laden tapes
Timeline: Osama bin Laden tapes Sunday 23 April 2006, 17:37 Makka Time, 14:37 GMT Al Jazeerahttp://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F0FD6DDC-28D0-4BE5-A0C4-D5A24F4EA7FC.htm Below is a timeline of tapes and videos released by Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda. April 23, 2006: In an audio tape … Read more . . .
Al Qaeda publishes a newsletter !
"Al-Qaeda doesn’t operate like a terrorist organization anymore," Gabriel Weimann (chairman of the communications department at the University of Haifa in Israel) said, speaking at the New American Foundation in Washington yesterday. "They don’t live together, they don’t train together, sometimes they don’t even meet." They don’t need human interaction as long as they can communicate, he added. Al-Qaeda’s publication Al Battar, or The Sword, is an online training camp for its network around the world, Weimann noted. Edition 9 of the publication was devoted to kidnappings.
Read more . . . US evidence to NATO ‘oral without slides or documents’
NATO said today that the United States had provided ”clear and compelling proof” that Osama bin Laden’s terrorist organization was behind the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In response, the alliance said it was ready to fight at the side of the United States should it ask for such help from its 18 NATO allies…The briefings [to the NATO Council] were oral, without slides or documents, did not report any direct order from Mr. bin Laden, nor did they indicate that the Taliban knew about the attacks before they happened.
Read more . . . Bin Laden threats may boost Bush
In a video recording Bin Laden said the US could avoid another 9/11 attack if it stopped threatening the security of Muslims.
In February 2006, President Bush admitted that at the time he thought the tape would help his re-election.
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Terror’s Easy Entry
Terror’s Easy Entry by Joel Mowbray The New York Post October 9, 2002 The hand-wringing over 9/11 has mostly centered on the FBI and CIA’s failure to "connect the dots." But what if the "dots" hadn’t been in … Read more . . .
A look at 9/11 terrorists? visa applications
The cover story in National Review‘s October 28th issue (out Friday) details how at least 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers should have been denied visas ? an assessment based on expert analyses of 15 of the terrorists’ visa-application … Read more . . .