Sunday 28 February 2010

Are AlQaeda as American as Blackwater?

I believe that without any doubt Bin Laden worked for the US Government when Afghanistan was occupied by the Soviet Union, during the anti-Soviet jihad Bin Laden and his fighters received American and Saudi funding. Some analysts believe Bin Laden himself had security training from the CIA.
Now just suppose that Bin Laden never actually changed his allegiances and with the newly formed Al-Qaeda, meaning "the base" which was created in 1989 he continued to serve the US Government. We now know from a Senate Report that the US had an opportunity of capturing Bin Laden in December 2001, 3 months after 9/11 but they decided not to pursue the terrorist leader for reasons only known to themselves. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1131425.html . We also know that Bin Laden's relatives two dozen members of Osama bin Laden's extended family who had been living in the United States , were allowed to leave the USA within days of the 9/11 attack having taken place http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york091102.asp . Apparently the Americans were concerned that the family members "might suffer retribution in the U.S.", hard to see exactly how that could take place if they were in custody and since that time we have learnt in regards to Guantanamo just how concerned the USA is in their treatment of prisoners and equally so that they might intern innocent people.

As Blair tried to claim at his recent interview with the Chilcot Enquiry, the events of 9/11 changed the feelings on both sides of the Atlantic although Blair did admit he knew that Bin Laden and/or Al-Qaeda were not involved. That didn't however stop both the US & UK Governments in speeches made by Bush, Cheney, Blair et al trying to suggest a connection at the time in 2001. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... =printable
It's all rather irrelevant of course because we now know that not only was the invasion of Afghanistan discussed and planned before 9/11 but so was Iraq.
The real reasons for the invasion of occupation of Afghanistan had in reality nothing to do with Al Qeada, Bin Laden or even the Taliban , from its first days in office in January of 2001 the Administration of George W. Bush meant to launch military attacks against both Afghanistan and Iraq. The reason Afghanistan was invaded had nothing to do with terrorism but more to do with gas pipelines, the most direct pipeline route to the richest markets and a breakdown of negotiations with the Taliban and the fact that they offered the pipeline contract to the Bridas Corporation of Argentina rather than the Unocal Corporation http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/in ... 119_0f.htm .State Department official Christina Rocca threatened the Taliban at their last pipeline negotiation in August of 2001, just five weeks before 9/11, 'Accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs.'

There was also an attempt originally to justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq by suggesting they had links to Al Qeada and by implication to the events on 9/11 in NY and this was combined with deliberate false intelligence suggesting Iraq had the potential to attack the west, that they were building weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons by importing yellow cake from Niger. In short much the same nonsense that we currently hear about Iran.

In fact it's the current events in Iran which has prompted me once again to consider the possibility that the USA used, actually contrived , the events of 9/11 by using an ally called Bin Laden/ Al Qeada to justify the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq for the purposes of controlling Middle East natural resources, protecting the US$ as the currency used in gas and oil trades.

What actually caught my eye was the capture by Iran of the leader of the Jundallah terrorist group, Abdolmalek Rigi. It is suggested that Mr. Rigi had connections to the Central Intelligence Agency and Mossad, the Israeli spy agency. As the London Telegraph reported last year, "The CIA is giving arms-length support, supplying money and weapons, to an Iranian militant group, Jundullah, which has conducted raids into Iran from bases in Pakistan." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -Iran.html
He said the United States had arranged for an Afghan passport and that he was photographed at a US base in Afghanistan just 48 hours before his capture. Jundullah is a Sunni Al-Qaeda offshoot organisation that was formerly headed by alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. So we have a connection with this American friendly terrorist group to a person who was almost certainly involved in 9/11 , an attack carried out by Al Qeada. Furthermore it has been reported that Jundallah is closely affiliated with the Al Qaeda network. So here we have more or less conclusive proof that the USA is funding a terrorist group which not only was once headed by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed but also has connections with Al Qaeda.

Jundullah, the MKO and other American friendly terrorist groups have been used widely to subvert and create tensions between Shiias and Sunni Arabs in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan , India and of course Iran.

Bearing in mind just how much Bin Laden and Al Qaeda have been used to justify actions contrary to International Law by the USA in regards to the Middle East I believe it's time serious questions were asked

MICHAEL

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