But, confronted with Taliban's refusal to accept U.S. conditions, ''this rationale of energy security changed into a military one'', the authors claim.
''At one moment during the negotiations, the U.S. representatives told the Taliban, 'either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs','' Brisard said in an interview in Paris.
According to the book, the government of Bush began to negotiate with the Taliban immediately after coming into power in February. U.S. and Taliban diplomatic representatives met several times in Washington, Berlin and Islamabad.
To polish their image in the United States, the Taliban even employed a U.S. expert on public relations, Laila Helms. The authors claim that Helms is also an expert in the works of U.S. secret services, for her uncle, Richard Helms, is a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
--US Policy Towards Taliban Influenced by OilThe negotiations with the Taliban broke down. In that summer of 2001, the American people were distracted by the American media noise machine. See: All Condit All The Time". The US Government was informing other governments that the US would be at war in Afghanistan no later than October. The US timetable for war was set before 911 would conveniently provide the pretext. Pure luck? I don't think so. Thoughtful folk were demonized for daring to raise the issue: how fortuitous, how convenient for Bush that Bin Laden would organize one of the most outrageous, the most unbelievable conspiracies in world history! Bin Laden would recruit and arrange to train a rag tag bunch of "terrorists". They would all but flunk lessons in how to fly puddle jumpers but would hone their airliner skills in a coin-operated simulator.
Nevermind the question of how they got on board airliners without showing up on flight manifests! Let's give the liar in the White House the benefit of the doubt. Nevermind that wreckage from four planes completely disappeared --the first and only time in history that such an improbable and incredible thing had ever happened outside David Copperfield's magic show. Nevermind that the space shuttle, by contrast, entered the stratosphere at speeds up to 10,000 miles per hour yet failed to pop through a wormhole into another dimension. Unlike Flight 77 which left not a trace, the Space Shuttle Columbia left wreckage and identifiable human body parts strewn over three states.
The only time in history that four planes completely vanished was on 911. How convenient for Bush!
How convenient for Bush that just when he is planning to invade and/or carpet bomb another country, he is given a pretext on a plate! How convenient for Bush that a "terrorist" attack occurs that could be pinned on Bin Laden!
How inconvenient it is for Bush now that Bin Laden has been dead for several years! How inconvenient for Bush that he cannot credibly roll out another fake tape with which to scare the beejeebers out of gullible Americans!
Len Hart is a Houston based film/video producer specializing in shorts and full-length documentaries. He is a former major market and network correspondent; credits include CBS, ABC-TV and UPI. He maintains the progressive blog: The Existentialist Cowboy
My gut feeling is tha bin Laden is dead, especially since he had what appeared to be terminal kidney disease in late 2001, although miracles do happen (with a lot of money usually) Could he have gotten a kidney transplant? In the mountains? Doubt it. What Bhutto said in her interview with Frost, that bin Laden had been murdered, is close to being the icing on the cake.
So if he is dead, there are two parties that definitely want to keep his image alive. One is the White House, which needs this archetpye of the evil Grand Vizier to continue to frighten the child-like American people, the other is al Qaeda, which needs his image as a recruiting Poster Boy and inspiration. So is al Qaeda itself putting out all these suspicious tapes, audio or video, or is the US, through its psy-ops programs? If the US is, then you would think al Qaeda would immediately cry foul and publicly denounce communiques they didn't produce. But they don't, so 1) either they themselves are putting out all these pseudo-bin Laden tapes using body doubles or whatever, or 2) al Qaeda is actually in league with the US and/or Pakistani Intelligence Agencies itself at the top and is part of a team effort.
A lot of people think this is possible, that al Qaeda has never ceased being an American asset. And we know that even during the Bosnian War, the Clinton White House was using al Qaeda fighters in Bosnia. So when did they sever the relationship, or did they?
Lots of confusion and darkness is surrounding all these questions, which has to be exposed to the light.
Another significant question is why did the White House prevent the Pentagon from taking out the crazy al Qaeda Mujadhadeen Zarqawi when he was setting up shop in northern Iraq, in Kurdistan, beyond Saddam Hussein's authority? The Pentagon knew where his camp was and repeatedly requested permission to take him down I have read. Permission denied. This was before we invaded Iraq. Zarqawi then went on to build up al Qaeda in Iraq after the invasion, and to this day that is the principle rationale for staying in Iraq, to prevent an al Qaeda takeover, however ludicrous a possibility that really is.
What kind of Machiavellian shell games are going on out there?
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Mac McKinney (49 articles, 83 quicklinks, 204 diaries, 1216 comments)
on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 1:52:57 PM
Osama bin Laden is dead. The news first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan almost six months ago: the fugitive died in December [2001] and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, echoed the information.
Is this why Bush and Cheney leaves the Dictatorship of Prerez Musharraf intact in Pakistan?...and why Benazir Bhutto was assassinated? They know Osama Bin Laden is dead and they do not want anybody else to know..? If Osama Bin Laden died in Dec. 2001...there was no reason to invade Afghanistan or Iraq..and it was all a pack of lies?
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Susan Nelsen (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 281 comments)
on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 2:16:15 PM
YouTube - Sir David Frost interviews Benazir Bhutto - She said Omar Sheikh murdered Osama Bin Laden as though it were common knowledge. The interviewer let it pass the same way...
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Lisa Long (4 articles, 4 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 48 comments)
on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 9:40:22 PM
Where's our coterie of statist automatons on this issue?
Let's face it, the issue of OBL's recent history and whereabouts is inextricably linked to 911 and the resultant so-called "War on Terror".
What with the apparent fact that someone has been making fake OBL tapes; the apparent media censorship of anything to do with OBL's death; the outrageous dismissive rhetoric of Bush et al. whenever they are confronted with the issue; etc., any sentient being not living in a closet would have to conclude that, once again, the U.S. government is participating in a massive fraud against the people.
Oh, that's right, I almost forgot, I'm a "truther"; by definition incapable of seeing our righteous government rulers for what they are...thus what appears to me to be another concerted effort to deceive, must in reality be just another unimportant set of coincidences.
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Harold Smith (0 articles, 3 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 556 comments)
on Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 9:27:34 AM
That and several other revelations that she made before her death. Musharraf has a stake in convincing folk that she was killed by either shrapnel OR the "lone lever", which was stupid on its face. Perhaps, Mushie hadn't heard of YouTube. There is clear vid of at least one gunmen...and there were at least two dramatic muzzle flashes. Someone wanted Bhutto dead.
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Len Hart (134 articles, 175 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 554 comments)
on Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 12:27:00 PM
Yes I saw this too, truth is that I have long suspected that the bogeyman was dead and have extreme doubts as to his involvement in 9/11 to begin with which was in my opinion an Edward Luttwak style coup d'etat utilizing the COG (Continuity Of Government) infrastructure and piggybacked on top of a false flag op with Bin Laden and the 19 losers as patsies. The serendipity of the big spooky always just happening to pop up with a new announcement/video at the most opportune times for the Bushreich is just a bit too much for any rational thinking person to buy.
The false narrative of 9/11 has to be exposed, it stinks like Hitler's big lie and every bit of fascism over the past seven years has used it as the cornerstone and the justification. I would sincerely hope that people start to redouble their efforts to spread the word before the Harman-Lieberman enabling act to start rounding up critics is passed and they start to round up people to intern in their KBR concentration camps.
I am noticing a lot of people starting to speak out against this corrupt fascist illegal occupying government and the word must be shouted from the mountaintops to destroy as much faith in this criminal syndicate as humanly possible before HR 1955 becomes the law of the land.
Just my two cents
EE
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Ed Encho (8 articles, 19 quicklinks, 57 diaries, 396 comments)
on Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 3:11:04 PM
It's tragic that Bhutto got caught in the cross hairs. Since I have been alive, it seems that those who have told the truth have paid dearly for having done so.
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Len Hart (134 articles, 175 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 554 comments)
on Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 4:08:59 PM
I haven't taken the time to do so but it would be highly interesting if anyone were to put together a timeline of those who have conveniently died, been assassinated, suicided or perished in a small plane crash just when it was most convenient for the benefit of the criminal empire.
We are hitting these bastards hard now, the internet is their worst freaking nightmare and the one thing that they did not plan for - it will be their undoing.
As the saying goes, you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube so let's just keep squeezing the damned thing.
EE
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Ed Encho (8 articles, 19 quicklinks, 57 diaries, 396 comments)
on Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 4:27:18 PM
I like the timeline idea...but it'll take a helluva lot of research. It goes back at least to the "convenient" death in 1949 of James Forrestal. the first Secretary of Defense. He made the mistake of opposing the the creation of an Israeli state. JFK, of course. Then there were the attempts on George Wallace and Larry Flynt, the murders of Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy and more recently the suspicious deaths of Carnahan, JFK jr, and Paul Wellstone.
It's beginning to look suspicious. What are the odds that only "liberals" get murdered?
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Len Hart (134 articles, 175 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 554 comments)
on Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 4:47:38 PM
I would be happy to assist sir and I am sure that we could recruit some others as well to do the necessary research etc. This would be an invaluable tool in exposing these vile bastards and starting to tie it all together now that people are getting wise as to the true magnitude of all of this. There has always been a fascist undercurrent in the U.S. that precedes WWII but was kicked into high gear in the aftermath and the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency and it's little hellspawn rogue cells that cut deals with the mob, international criminal syncicates and smuggled Nazi war criminals out ostensibly to use to fight the phantom menace of communism which really was nothing more than protecting the interests of the blood barters, the Wall Street looters and the oligarchs.
Let me know if you are interested and we can maybe get something started along these lines.
I think that this is a great idea and I'm getting bored of blogging ranting on politics as usual and would like to start devoting my efforts to the real meat of the problems that we are now facing.
EE
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Ed Encho (8 articles, 19 quicklinks, 57 diaries, 396 comments)
on Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 4:58:14 PM
Let's see what we can come up with because EVERYTHING is connected if you are able to take the time to look at the angles. A very big problem is that we are all conditioned to look at things like 9/11 as though it were an individual incident without bothering to look at the historical contexts.
EE
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Ed Encho (8 articles, 19 quicklinks, 57 diaries, 396 comments)
on Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 7:48:51 PM
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Thoughtful folk were demonized for daring to raise the issue: how fortuitous, how convenient for Bush that Bin Laden would organize one of the most outrageous, the most unbelievable conspiracies in world history! Bin Laden would recruit and arrange to train a rag tag bunch of "terrorists". They would all but flunk lessons in how to fly puddle jumpers but would hone their airliner skills in a coin-operated simulator.
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