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War of Osama bin Laden
In summary or put simply, Osama bin Laden carried out the 9/11 Terror on New York and Washington DC since he suspected that he was going to be betrayed by the Taliban Government.
The disaster on September 11, 2001 was intended to destroy the delicate relationship between the Taliban and the Bush Administration.
This is one of hypotheses about the tragedy that eventually took hundreds of thousands of lives in Iraq and Afghanistan in addition to 3000 in the East Coast of the U.S.
So, could we say behind the scene of this bad plot there was any proud hero of any sort?
SECTION I: Story of War on Osama bin Laden
It began to manifest itself to the world in 1998.
1998 United States embassy bombings
The 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings were a series of attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998, in which hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb explosions at the United States embassies in the major East African cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. The attacks were linked to local members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, brought Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri to the attention of the US public for the first time, and resulted in the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation placing bin Laden on its Ten Most Wanted list.
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According to journalist Lawrence Wright, the Nairobi operation was named after the Holy Kaaba in Mecca; the Dar es Salaam bombing was called Operation al-Aqsa in Jerusalem, but "neither had an obvious connection to the American embassies in Africa. Bin Laden initially said that the sites had been targeted because of the 'invasion' of Somalia; then he described an American plan to partition Sudan, which he said was hatched in the embassy in Nairobi. He also told his followers that the genocide in Rwanda had been planned inside the two American embassies."
Wright concludes that bin Laden's actual goal was "to lure the United States into Afghanistan, which had long been called 'The Graveyard of Empires.'"[5] According to a 1998 memo authored by Mohammed Atef and seized by the FBI, around the time of the attacks, al-Qaeda had both an interest in and specific knowledge of negotiations between the Taliban and the American-led gas pipeline consortium CentGas.[6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_United_States_embassy_bombings
The stark nature and the level of atrocity of these bombings in East Africa must be balanced with a critical sense of urgency on Osama bin Laden's side.
The reasonable factor is that the Taliban was going to shake hands with the U.S. for a big natural gas pipeline project. It would be profitable for both an American energy company and the Taliban Government to operate and manage a long pipeline from the Caspian Sea region down to the Indian Ocean or to Pakistan/India. But, if this big project had been promoted, the U.S. would have gained a foothold in Afghanistan. Then, Osama bin Laden's group would have been surely put aside out of the loop of power in Afghanistan. Then where could he have moved? Back to Sudan? Back to Saudi Arabia?
Accordingly, literally for existence in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden ventured to launch a war on America.
U.S. negotiations with Taliban over oil pieline
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The e-mail memo was found in 1998 on a computer seized by the FBI during its investigation into the 1998 African embassy bombings, which were sponsored by al-Qaida. Atef's memo was discovered by FBI counter-terrorism expert John O'Neill, who left the bureau in 2001, complaining that U.S. oil interests were hindering his investigation into al-Qaida. O’Neill, who became security chief at the World Trade Center, died in the Sept. 11 attack.
Atef's memo shines new light on what al-Qaida knew about U.S. efforts to normalize relations with the Taliban in exchange for the fundamentalist government's supporting the construction of an oil and gas pipeline across Afghanistan. As documented in the book I coauthored with Guillaume Dasquie, "Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth," the Clinton and Bush administrations negotiated with the Taliban, both to get the repressive regime to widen its government as well as look favorably on U.S. companies' attempts to construct an oil pipeline. The Bush White House stepped up negotiations with the Taliban in 2001.
http://crisisofcivilization.com/2011/01/25/u-s-negotiations-with-taliban-over-oil-pipeline/
There is apparently misperception on Osama bin Laden's side about the intention of the U.S. The Clinton Administration did not seem to have any resolute policy on Islamic terror. Though it was shocked by the bombings of its embassies in East Africa, President Mr. Bill Clinton simply ordered to fire cruise missiles to possible camps of Osama bin Laden's in Afghanistan in addition to some factory believed to be run by AlQaeda in Sudan. The U.S. Government soon understood the attack failed, but did not immediately step up attacks on Osama bin Laden. CIA tried to take on him in cooperation with Pakistan, but the plan was abandoned in October 1999, since a coup occurred in Pakistan. The American Media also gradually forgot about Osama bin Laden. They tried to leave the matter into the obscurity. The Clinton Administration did not regard Osama bin Laden as the worst threat the U.S. had faced in decade at the time.
But, Osama bin Laden must have been be crazed with fear and anxiety, since the U.S. actually targeted him with scores of missiles and CIA promoted a real plan to attack him with the Pakistani military. He and AlQaeda were alone in the world to become a great enemy of America. They absolutely needed a strong base to protect themselves all the more, ironically in this context. They tried to harm relationships between the Taliban Government and the U.S. Their action invoked sheer retaliation from the U.S. So, he and AlQaeda needed Afghanistan bases all the more to protect themselves. In addition, not only the Islamic world but all the world came to know Osama bin Laden's existence and standpoint. His honor came to be affected. He had to intensify his posture as a great enemy of America, though the U.S. Government gradually reduced activities to take on him and the U.S. Media tried to leave the matter into the obscurity, probably partly because Osama bin Laden was a son of a rich Saudi Arabian family.
Yet, Osama bin Laden took part in an interview by ABC in May 1998, a little over two months before the U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. It showed his underlying inclination toward heroism and optimism. Though at the time, he was already marked by FBI as a terrorist due to involvement of attacks on American soldiers in Somalia in 1992 and he himself proclaimed war against the U.S. in August 1996, he looked so optimistic about his fate and circumstances around the Taliban. Anyway, in the interview, Osama bin Laden stressed the influence of Israel and Judaists as the most grave matter about the U.S.
INTERVIEW OSAMA BIN LADEN (May 1998)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/interview.html
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The American people, by and large, do not know the name bin Laden, but they soon likely will. Do you have a message for the American people?
I say to them that they have put themselves at the mercy of a disloyal government, and this is most evident in Clinton's administration ... . We believe that this administration represents Israel inside America. Take the sensitive ministries such as the Ministry of Exterior and the Ministry of Defense and the CIA, you will find that the Jews have the upper hand in them. They make use of America to further their plans for the world, especially the Islamic world. American presence in the Gulf provides support to the Jews and protects their rear. And while millions of Americans are homeless and destitute and live in abject poverty, their government is busy occupying our land and building new settlements and helping Israel build new settlements in the point of departure for our Prophet's midnight journey to the seven heavens. America throws her own sons in the land of the two Holy Mosques for the sake of protecting Jewish interests. ...
The American government is leading the country towards hell. ... We say to the Americans as people and to American mothers, if they cherish their lives and if they cherish their sons, they must elect an American patriotic government that caters to their interests not the interests of the Jews. If the present injustice continues with the wave of national consciousness, it will inevitably move the battle to American soil, just as Ramzi Yousef and others have done. This is my message to the American people. I urge them to find a serious administration that acts in their interest and does not attack people and violate their honor and pilfer their wealth. ...
In America, we have a figure from history from 1897 named Teddy Roosevelt. He was a wealthy man, who grew up in a privileged situation and who fought on the front lines. He put together his own men - hand chose them - and went to battle. You are like the Middle East version of Teddy Roosevelt.
I am one of the servants of Allah. We do our duty of fighting for the sake of the religion of Allah. It is also our duty to send a call to all the people of the world to enjoy this great light and to embrace Islam and experience the happiness in Islam. Our primary mission is nothing but the furthering of this religion. ... Let not the West be taken in by those who say that Muslims choose nothing but slaughtering. Their brothers in East Europe, in Turkey and in Albania have been guided by Allah to submit to Islam and to experience the bliss of Islam. Unlike those, the European and the American people and some of the Arabs are under the influence of Jewish media..
Osama bin Laden's taking part in an interview by the American media has not occurred after this 1998 one. He did not launch any attacks on Israel, either.
Till he felt that he was really targeted by the American Government after the 1998 United States embassy bombings in East Africa, Osama bin Laden had looked like enjoying a kind of status of being an Islamic hero. But, after the bombing aimed at destroying the deal between the Taliban and the U.S., he looked like having no luxury of enjoying the Media communications and security guarantees. On the other hand, the pipeline project in Afghanistan surfaced again when the Bush Administration started.
Afghanistan, the Taliban and the Bush Oil Team
by Wayne Madsen
democrats.com, January 2002
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The Taliban visits to Washington continued up to a few months prior to the September 11 attacks. The State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research's South Asian Division maintained constant satellite telephone contact with the Taliban in Kandahar and Kabul. Washington permitted the Taliban to maintain a diplomatic office in Queens, New York headed by Taliban diplomat Abdul Hakim Mojahed. In addition, U.S. officials, including Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs Christina Rocca, who is also a former CIA officer, visited Taliban diplomatic officials in Islamabad. In the meantime, the Bush administration took a hostile attitude towards the Islamic State of Afghanistan, otherwise known as the Northern Alliance. Even though the United Nations recognized the alliance as the legitimate government of Afghanistan, the Bush administration, with oil at the forefront of its goals, decided to follow the lead of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan and curry favor with the Taliban mullahs of Afghanistan. The visits of Islamist radicals did not end with the Taliban. In July 2001, the head of Pakistan's pro-bin Laden Jamiaat-i-Islami Party, Qazi Hussein Ahmed, also reportedly was received at the George Bush Center for Intelligence (aka, CIA headquarters) in Langley, Virginia.
According to the Washington Post, the Special Envoy of Mullah Omar, Rahmatullah Hashami, even came to Washington bearing a gift carpet for President Bush from the one-eyed Taliban leader. The Village Voice reported that Hashami, on behalf of the Taliban, offered the Bush administration to hold on to bin Laden long enough for the United States to capture or kill him but, inexplicably, the administration refused. Meanwhile, Spozhmai Maiwandi, the director of the Voice of America's Pashtun service, jokingly nicknamed "Kandahar Rose" by her colleagues, aired favorable reports on the Taliban, including a controversial interview with Mullah Omar.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MAD201A.html
Back around 1994, the U.S. and Pakistan agreed to put an end to a state of civil war in Afghanistan so that US Unocal Corporation would install long pipelines through Afghanistan. In 1997, representatives of the Taliban visited America to meet officials of the Clinton Administration who provided financial aid for the Taliban Government. They also visited Texas to be welcomed by the American oil major. Though the Clinton Administration stopped relationships with the Taliban in the wake of the 1998 attacks, the negotiations related to the pipe line continued behind the scene. (It is also said that in 2000 a representative of Taliban entered negotiation with the U.S. on extradition of Osama bin Laden through the third country in Frankfurt, Germany, though no agreement was made, since the Taliban requested something the U.S. could not accept.)
In 2001 when Mr. George W. Bush assumed office of US Presidency, he reportedly started to revive the pipeline plan through Afghanistan. It is also reported that some meeting was held in Berlin on development of the trans-Afghanistan pipeline with participants from the U.S., Russia, Iran, and Pakistan. The Taliban was invited there but did not join it. Though this meeting failed, the Bush Administration was making efforts to win the Taliban over to their side.
Meanwhile, in February 2001, Mohamed Atta al-Sayed was instructed by Osama bin Laden to go and learn how to pilot a passenger plane in aviation school in Florida, USA.
(to be continued...)
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