The 'FBI has no
hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11'. Vice President Cheney says, 'We've never made
the case, or argued the case, that somehow Osama Bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11'
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The FBI's "Most Wanted
Terrorists" web page does not state that Bin Laden is wanted for the September 11,
2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The FBI page states: "Usama Bin
Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States
Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200
people. In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the
world."
When asked why there is no mention
of 9/11 on the FBI's web page, Rex Tomb, the FBI's Chief of Investigative Publicity, is
reported to have 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."
In the months leading up to the
Septmber 11, 2001 attack, it is reported, the Taliban "outlined various ways bin
Laden could be dealt with. He could be turned over to the EU, killed by the Taliban, or
made available as a target for Cruise missiles." The Bush administration did not
accept the Taliban's offer.
"On September 20, 2001,"
according to the Guardian,
"the Taliban offered to hand Osama bin Laden to a neutral Islamic country for trial
if the US presented them with evidence that he was responsible for the attacks on New York
and Washington. The US rejected the offer."
On September 23, 2001 the BBC reported that four
of the hijack "suspects" - Waleed Al Shehri, Abdulaziz Al Omari, Saeed Alghamdi,
and possibly Khalid Al Midhar - were alive, and that FBI Director Robert Mueller
acknowledged "the identity of several of the suicide hijackers is in doubt."
Bin Laden, in a September 28, 2001
interview with the
Pakistani newspaper Ummat, is reported to have said:
I have already said that I am not
involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to
avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of
innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids
causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden
even in the course of a battle.
Experts dismiss the video tape
"found in a house in Jalalabad", Afghanistan, which allegedly shows Bin Laden
confessing to the September 11 attacks. In a December 20, 2001, broadcast by German TV channel
Das Erste "two independent translators and an expert on oriental studies found the
White House's translation not only to be inaccurate, but manipulative."
FBI Director Robert Mueller, in a
speech at the Commonwealth Club on April 19, 2002, said:
"In our investigation, we have not uncovered a single piece of paper - either here in
the United States, or in the treasure trove of information that has turned up in
Afghanistan and elsewhere - that mentioned any aspect of the September 11 plot."
In fact there are no Arab names on
the partial list of
passengers on the 9/11 flights.
Yet on September 12, 2001 ABC Newsreported that
"investigators have identified all the hijackers". Among those identified was
"Satan Suqami, a Saudi national on American Airlines Flight 11, whose passport was
recovered in the rubble."
Bin Laden is the "prime
suspect" in the September 11 attacks, said President
Bush on September 17, 2001, and he pledged to capture him "dead or alive."
"I am absolutely convinced
that the al-Qaida network, which he heads, was responsible for this attack,"
Secretary of State Colin Powell said on NBC's
"Meet the Press."
Powell said the government would
"put before the world, the American people, a persuasive case that ... it is
al-Qaida, led by Osama bin Laden, who has been responsible."
On October 7, 2001, the U.S.
military began operation Operation Enduring Freedom - a war on Afghanistan.
The evidence against Bin
Laden, promised by Secretary of State Colin Powell on September 23, 2001, has yet to be
made available to the public.
On March 29, 2006, on The Tony
Snow Show, Vice President Dick Cheney stated:
"We've never made the case, or argued the case, that somehow Osama Bin Laden was
directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming."
Back on September 16, 2001, Cheney
had said
he would willingly accept bin Laden's "head on a platter".
[Digital morphing - voice,
video, and photo - has come of age, available for use in psychological operations. PSYOPS,
as the military calls it, seek to exploit human vulnerabilities in enemy governments,
militaries and populations to pursue national and battlefield objectives. . . .
Pentagon planners started
to discuss digital morphing after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Covert operators
kicked around the idea of creating a computer-faked videotape of Saddam Hussein crying or
showing other such manly weaknesses, or in some sexually compromising situation. The
nascent plan was for the tapes to be flooded into Iraq and the Arab world.--William M.
Arkin, "When Seeing
and Hearing Isn't Believing," Washington Post, February 1, 1999]
[The FBI is confident
that it has positively identified the nineteen hijackers responsible for the 9/11
terrorist attacks.--Steve Herrmann, "9/11 conspiracy
theory," BBC News, October 27, 2006]
["Able Danger did
not identify Mohammed Atta or any other 9/11 hijacker at any time prior to Sept. 11,
2001,"--Greg Miller, "Alarming
9/11 claim is found baseless," Los Angeles Times, December 25, 2006]
[In July of 2006 a large
collection of documents was published on a website containing
prosecution and defense exhibits for the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui. Included in the
prosecution exhibits are a set of Flash presentations detailing the government's account
of the passengers on all four commandeered jetliners.--"Victims Lists,
Passenger Manifests, and the Alleged Hijackers," 911research.wtc7.net, 2006]
AUDIO: Kevin
Barrett talks to Bruce Lawrence of Duke University about the Bin Laden confession tapes
which Lawrence says are bogus and that he knows people who work for the United States
government who agree with him off the record.-- "Bruce Lawrence,"
radiodujour.com, February 16, 2007
[But more interesting
were the examples Krawetz gave of al Qaeda images. Krawetz took an image from a 2006 al
Qaeda video of Ayman al-Zawahiri (above right), a senior member of the terrorist
organization. The image shows al-Zawahiri sitting in front of a desk and banner with
writing on it. But after conducting his error analysis Krawetz was able to determine that
al-Zawahiri's image was superimposed in front of the background--Kim Zetter, "Researcher's
Analysis of al Qaeda Images Reveals Surprises," wired.com, August 2, 2007]
[On September 20, 2001,
the Bush administration officially declared that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the
9/11 attack. Three days later, Secretary of State Colin Powell announced on Meet the Press
that the government would soon release "a white paper" detailing the evidence
against bin Laden. . . .
As we know, the US
government never got around to releasing the promised white paper.--Mark H. Gaffney,
"Was 9/11 an Inside
Job?," thetruthseeker.co.uk, September 8, 2008]
[Even after Sept. 11,
Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Vice President Dick Cheney continued to resist any military
engagement in Afghanistan, because they were hoping for war against Iraq instead.
Bush's top secret order
of Sept. 17 for war with Afghanistan also directed the Pentagon to begin planning for an
invasion of Iraq, according to journalist James Bamford's book Pretext for War.
Cheney and Rumsfeld
pushed for a quick victory in Afghanistan in NSC meetings in October, as recounted by both
Woodward and Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith. Lost in the eagerness to wrap up the
Taliban and get on with the Iraq War was any possibility of preventing bin Laden's escape
to Pakistan.--Gareth Porter, "Bush Had No Plan to Catch Bin
Laden After 9/11," antiwar.com, September 30, 2008]
[It is thought the
authorities were referring to comments made by Mr Bin Laden that he could not prove 100%
that his father - whom he says he has not seen since he was 19 - was responsible for the
2001 attacks in the US or the London bombings in 2005.--"Bin Laden son in Spain asylum bid,"
BBC News, November 4, 2008]
[What was remarkable
about the Taliban offer was that there wasn't even an extradition agreement between
Afghanistan and the United States. The Taliban was offering to deliver bin Laden to an
independent tribunal even though international law did not require it, so long as U.S.
officials provided the same type of evidence that is ordinarily required in an extradition
proceeding.--Jacob G. Hornberger, "U.S.
Foreign Policy Caused the Taliban Problem," fff.org, May 8, 2009]
[He analyzes the
purported messages from bin Laden and finds that, as many have suspected, they do not
provide evidence of bin Laden's existence after 2001. This leads naturally to the
question: if Osama bin Laden did indeed die in 2001, how and why have dozens of messages
from bin Laden appeared since then?
Griffin's meticulous
analysis supports above all one simple and urgent conclusion: if Osama bin Laden is dead,
the US should not be using its troops and treasure to hunt him down.--David Ray Griffin,
"Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive?," Olive Branch Press, May
20, 2009]
[In the interview,
Sibel says that the US maintained 'intimate relations' with Bin Laden, and the Taliban,
"all the way until that day of September 11."
These 'intimate
relations' included using Bin Laden for 'operations' in Central Asia, including Xinjiang,
China. These 'operations' involved using al Qaeda and the Taliban in the same manner
"as we did during the Afghan and Soviet conflict," that is, fighting 'enemies'
via proxies.--"Sibel Edmonds:
Bin
Laden worked for US till 9/11," dailykos.com, May 20, 2009]
[The former FBI
translator carefully replied, "I have information about things that our government
has lied to us about. I know. For example, to say that since the fall of the Soviet Union
we ceased all of our intimate relationship with Bin Laden and the Taliban - those things
can be proven as lies, very easily, based on the information they classified in my case,
because we did carry very intimate relationship with these people, and it involves Central
Asia, all the way up to September 11."--Muriel Kane, "Whistleblower:
Bin Laden was US proxy until 9/11," rawstory.com, July 31, 2009]
[Only one nation had the
means, motive, opportunity and stable nation state intelligence required to take the US to
war in the Middle East while also making it appear that Islam is the problem.--Jeff Gates,
"Israel and 9/11,"
middle-east-online.com, September 11, 2009]
[A recent survey of news
reports covering Osama bin Laden from 2001 to 2009 has provided overwhelming evidence that
the al Qaeda leader has been dead since December 13, 2001, and that all messages that have
been aired since that time have been fabricated--Elizabeth Woodworth, "Dead or Alive? Osama bin Laden: A
Marketing Tool for US-NATO Military Operations ," Global Research, September
11, 2009]
[Although the case was
not good enough to go to court, Blair seemed to be saying, it was good enough to go to war.
. . .
Still another reason to
doubt the authenticity of this 2004 video is that, although the speaker was addressing the
American public, he spoke Arabic rather than English. This is strange, because Osama bin
Laden was reportedly fluent in English--David Ray Griffin, "Osama
bin Laden as Responsible for the 9/11 Attacks: Is This Belief Based on Evidence?,"
Veterans Today, October 30, 2009]
[The US has had no
reliable information on the whereabouts of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in years, US
Defence Secretary Robert Gates has admitted.--"No Bin Laden reports 'in
years'," BBC News, December 6, 2009]
[Evidence now available
from various sources, including recently declassified U.S. State Department documents,
shows that the Taliban regime led by Mullah Mohammad Omar imposed strict isolation on
Osama bin Laden after 1998 to prevent him from carrying out any plots against the United
States.--Gareth Porter, "Taliban
Regime Pressed bin Laden on anti-US Terror," Inter Press Service, February
12, 2010]
[The agency actually did
make a video purporting to show Osama bin Laden and his cronies sitting around a campfire
swigging bottles of liquor and savoring their conquests with boys--Jeff Stein, "CIA
unit's wacky idea: Depict Saddam as gay," washingtonpost.com, May 25, 2010]
[What about the 9/11
Commission? Its entire report is based on the assumption that bin Laden was behind the
attacks. However, the report's evidence to support this premise has been disowned by the
Commission's own co-chairs, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton. . . .
It is still widely
thought to have been established beyond question that the attacks were carried out by
members of al-Qaeda. The truth, however, is that the evidence entirely falls apart upon
examination, and this fact suggests that 9/11 was instead a false-flag attack - an
attack that people within our own government orchestrated while planting evidence to
implicate Muslims.--David Ray Griffin, "Did 9/11 Justify the
War in Afghanistan?," globalresearch.ca, June 24, 2010]
[Is Bin Laden dead?
Probably. Was he killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan? Possibly. Was he the 'mastermind' of
9/11? No -- his death is a distraction from more important issues.--Enver Masud,
"Exposed: The Abbottabad,
Pakistan Affair," The Wisdom Fund, May 6, 2011]
[Investigative journalist
Seymour Hersh, citing officials from the Department of Justice and the CIA, said the
real reason the Bush administration reneged on its pledge
to release the evidence was a "lack of solid information."--Tim Kelly,
"Why Did the United States
Invade Afghanistan?," washingtonpost.com, October 12, 2011]
"The two enemies of the people are
criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the
Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."
Thomas Jefferson
