If Benazir Bhutto was correct then Bin Laden is dead. If Bin Laden is dead, he can't make tapes. If Bin Laden is dead, everything the US government has said about bin Laden is either wrong, mistaken, or, most probably, a bald-faced lie. If Bin Laden is dead, then everything Bush has been telling you about the war on terrorism over several years is either wrong or a lie or both. In any case, there was never any hard evidence linking Bin Laden to the events of 911!
If Binny can't make tapes, Bush cannot exploit them to wage a "war" about which he has never told the truth.
A few hours after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, the Bush administration concluded without supporting evidence, that "Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organisation were prime suspects". CIA Director George Tenet stated that bin Laden has the capacity to plan ''multiple attacks with little or no warning.'' Secretary of State Colin Powell called the attacks "an act of war" and President Bush confirmed in an evening televised address to the Nation that he would "make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them". Former CIA Director James Woolsey pointed his finger at "state sponsorship," implying the complicity of one or more foreign governments. In the words of former National Security Adviser, Lawrence Eagleburger, "I think we will show when we get attacked like this, we are terrible in our strength and in our retribution."
Meanwhile, parroting official statements, the Western media mantra has approved the launching of "punitive actions" directed against civilian targets in the Middle East. In the words of William Saffire writing in the New York Times: "When we reasonably determine our attackers' bases and camps, we must pulverize them -- minimizing but accepting the risk of collateral damage" -- and act overtly or covertly to destabilize terror's national hosts".
-- Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa, Who Is Osama Bin Laden?
The news that Bin Laden is dead is an inconvenient truth. The Bush administration had much more than money invested in Bin Laden. Bushco had built around Osama an "evil empire" worthy of a James Bond film --The World is Not Enough, the story of oil, intrigue and pipelines.
Sir Robert King, a British oil tycoon and close friend of M, is killed by a bomb attack inside MI6 Headquarters. The assassin was working under orders from Renard, an international terrorist who survived an assassination attempt by 009 and is continually gaining strength as the bullet eliminates his senses of pain and touch before inevitably killing him. James Bond uses an unfinished Q Boat created by his ally Q and chases the killer until she commits suicide.
M assigns to protect King's daughter, Elektra; Renard previously abducted and held Elektra for ransom, and it is believed that he has once again targeted her. Elektra assumes control of her father's business at a pivotal time, overseeing construction of an oil pipeline that would travel through the Caucasus, from the Caspian Sea to Turkey.
The non-fiction version was already afoot even as the motion picture moguls were writing the script for The World is Not Enough.
Despite complex geopolitics and considerable risks, major oil companies have been acquiring development rights and preparing for production since the early 1990s. Offshore drilling operations are underway in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, and are set to commence elsewhere.
The majors have also invested significantly in the future construction of oil and gas pipelines to distant ports and refineries. By 2010, they expect to invest at least $50 billion in production and transportation.
The first big move was a joint venture between Chevron and Kazakhstan, signed in 1993 to develop the huge Tenzig oil field on the Caspian coast. Three years later, ExxonMobil purchased a 25 percent share. Another consortium focused on Azerbaijan's offshore fields, with estimated reserves of 32 billion barrels of oil and 35 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, making it the third largest potential regional source.
In 1994, BP Amoco, Lukoil, Unocal, Penzoil, Statoil, and others joined with Azerbaijan's state oil company to form the Azerbaijan International Operating Company. Bush family adviser James A. Baker III, who spearheaded George W. Bush's victory in the Florida election dispute, headed the law firm representing this consortium and sat on the U.S.-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce advisory council, as did Vice Pres. Dick Cheney before him. But before their investments could produce profits, roadblocks would have to be removed. The biggest was how to get the fuel to markets.
Prior to 9/11, the U.S. government's preferred future route, known as the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) project, went from Azerbaijan through Georgia and then south to the Turkish coast. The goal was to reduce reliance on Russia and bring the southern Caucasus into the U.S. fold. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice is a former director of Chevron, a lynchpin of the BTC consortium with extensive operations in Azerbaijan. Until 2000, Cheney was chief executive at Halliburton Co., named a finalist in 2001 to bid on engineering work in the Turkish sector.
Early on, it was easy to conclude that the real beneficiaries of a US adventure in Afghanistan would be the big oil consortium that had planned the pipeline across Afghanistan. In 1995, UNOCAL had apparently concluded a deal with Turkmenistan. Members of the Taliban met in the Houston suburb of Sugarland.
A senior delegation from the Taleban movement in Afghanistan is in the United States for talks with an international energy company that wants to construct a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistan.
A spokesman for the company, Unocal, said the Taleban were expected to spend several days at the company's headquarters in Sugarland, Texas.
Unocal says it has agreements both with Turkmenistan to sell its gas and with Pakistan to buy it.
[ image: The Afghan economy has been devasted by 20 years of civil war] The Afghan economy has been devasted by 20 years of civil war
But, despite the civil war in Afghanistan, Unocal has been in competition with an Argentinian firm, Bridas, to actually construct the pipeline.
Last month, the Argentinian firm, Bridas, announced that it was close to signing a two-billion dollar deal to build the pipeline, which would carry gas 1,300 kilometres from Turkmenistan to Pakistan, across Afghanistan.
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 (42 articles, 69 quicklinks, 164 diaries, 1070 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, 268 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, 3 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, 473 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 (131 articles, 173 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 549 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 (7 articles, 18 quicklinks, 56 diaries, 391 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 (131 articles, 173 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 549 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 (7 articles, 18 quicklinks, 56 diaries, 391 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 (131 articles, 173 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 549 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 (7 articles, 18 quicklinks, 56 diaries, 391 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 (7 articles, 18 quicklinks, 56 diaries, 391 comments)
on Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 7:48:51 PM
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