Bin Laden Met with the CIA in July and Walked Away
by
Michael C. Ruppert
[ COPYRIGHT 2001, All Rights Reserved, Michael C. Ruppert and
From The Wilderness Publications, www.copvcia.com. May be copied
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[Expanded and Revised February 11, 2002]
FTW, November 2, 2001 1200 PST -- On October 31, the French
daily Le Figaro dropped a bombshell. While in a Dubai hospital
receiving treatment for a chronic kidney infection last July,
Osama bin Laden met with a top CIA official - presumably the
Chief of Station. The meeting, held in bin Laden s private
suite, took place at the American hospital in Dubai at a time
when he was a wanted fugitive for the bombings of two U.S.
embassies and this year s attack on the U.S.S. Cole. Bin Laden
was eligible for execution according to a 2000 intelligence
finding issued by President Bill Clinton before leaving office
in January. Yet on July 14th he was allowed to leave Dubai on a
private jet and there were no Navy fighters waiting to force him
down.
In 1985 Oliver North the only member of the Reagan-Bush years
who doesn t appear to have a hand in the current war - sent the
Navy and commandos after terrorists on the cruise ship Achille
Lauro. In his 1991 autobiography Under Fire, while describing
terrorist Abu Abbas, North wrote, I used to wonder: how many
dead Americans will it take before we do something? One could
look at the number of Americans Osama bin Laden is alleged to
have killed before September 11 and ask the same question.
It gets worse, much worse. A more complete timeline listing
crucial events both before and after the September 11th suicide
attacks, which have been blamed on bin Laden, establishes CIA
foreknowledge of them and strongly suggests that there was
criminal complicity on the part of the U.S. government in their
execution. It also makes clear that the events which have taken
place since September 11th are based upon an agenda that has
little to do with the attacks.
One wonders how these events could have been ignored by the
major media or treated as isolated incidents. Failing that, how
could skilled news agencies avoid being outraged, or at least
even just a little suspicious?
1. 1991-1997 Major U.S. oil companies including ExxonMobil,
Texaco, Unocal, BP Amoco and Shell directly invest almost $3
billion in cash bribing heads of state in Kazakhstan to secure
equity rights in the huge oil reserves in these regions. The oil
companies further commit to future direct investments in
Kazakhstan of $35 billion. Not being willing to pay exorbitant
prices to Russia to use Russian pipelines the major oil
companies have no way to recoup their investments. [Sources
Testimony before the House International Relations Committee
2/12/98]
2. December 4, 1997 Representatives of the Taliban are invited
guests to the Texas headquarters of Unocal to negotiate their
support for the pipeline. Subsequent reports will indicate that
the negotiations failed, allegedly because the Taliban wanted
too much money. [Source: The BBC, Dec. 4, 1997]
3. February 12, 1998 Unocal Vice President John J. Maresca
later to become a Special Ambassador to Afghanistan testifies
before the House that until a single, unified, friendly
government is in place in Afghanistan the trans-Afghani pipeline
needed to monetize the oil will not be built. [Source: Testimony
before the House International Relations Committee.]
4. 1998 - The CIA ignores warnings from Case Officer Robert Baer
that Saudi Arabia was harboring an al-Q aeda cell led by two
known terrorists. A more detailed list of known terrorists is
offered to Saudi intelligence in August 2001 and refused.
[Source: Financial Times 1/12/01; See No Evil by a book by
Robert Baer (release date Feb. 2002).
5. 1998 and 2000 - Former President George H.W. Bush travels to
Saudi Arabia on behalf of the privately owned Carlyle Group, the
11th largest defense contractor in the U.S. While there he meets
privately with the Saudi royal family and the bin Laden family.
[Source: Wall Street Journal, Sept. 27, 2001. See also FTW, Vol.
IV, No 7 The Best Enemies Money Can Buy,
- http://www.copvcia.com/members
/carlyle.html. ]
6. January, 2001 The Bush Administration orders the FBI and
intelligence agencies to back off investigations involving the
bin Laden family, including two of Osama bin Laden s relatives
(Abdullah and Omar) who were living in Falls Church, VA right
next to CIA headquarters. This followed previous orders dating
back to 1996, frustrating efforts to investigate the bin Laden
family. [Source: BBC Newsnight, Correspondent Gregg Palast Nov
7, 2001].
7. Feb 13, 2001 UPI Terrorism Correspondent Richard Sale
while covering a trial of bin Laden s Al Q aeda followers -
reports that the National Security Agency has broken bin Laden s
encrypted communications. Even if this indicates that bin Laden
changed systems in February it does not mesh with the fact that
the government insists that the attacks had been planned for
years.
8. May 2001 Secretary of State Colin Powell gives $43 million
in aid to the Taliban regime, purportedly to assist hungry
farmers who are starving since the destruction of their opium
crop in January on orders of the Taliban regime. [Source: The
Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2001].
9. May, 2001 Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, a
career covert operative and former Navy Seal, travels to India
on a publicized tour while CIA Director George Tenet makes a
quiet visit to Pakistan to meet with Pakistani leader General
Pervez Musharraf. Armitage has long and deep Pakistani
intelligence connections and he is the recipient of the highest
civil decoration awarded by Pakistan. It would be reasonable to
assume that while in Islamabad, Tenet, in what was described
as an unusually long meeting, also met with his Pakistani
counterpart, Lt. General Mahmud Ahmad, head of the ISI. [Source
The Indian SAPRA news agency, May 22, 2001.]
10. June 2001 German intelligence, the BND, warns the CIA and
Israel that Middle Eastern terrorists are planning to hijack
commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important
symbols of American and Israeli culture. [Source: Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung, September 14, 2001.]
11. July, 2001 Three American officials: Tom Simmons (former
U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan), Karl Inderfurth (former Assistant
Secretary of State for South Asian affairs) and Lee Coldren
(former State Department expert on South Asia), meet with
Pakistani and Russian intelligence officers in Berlin and tell
them that the U.S. is planning military strikes against
Afghanistan in October. A French book released in November, Bin
Laden - La Verite Interdite, discloses that Taliban
representatives often sat in on the meetings. British papers
confirm that the Pakistani ISI relayed the threats to the
Taliban. [Source: The Guardian, September 22, 2001; the BBC,
September 18, 2001.The Inter Press Service, Nov 16, 2001]
12. Summer 2001 - According to a Sept. 26 story in Britain s The
Guardian, correspondent David Leigh reported that, U.S.
department of defense official, Dr. Jeffrey Starr, visited
Tajikistan in January. The Guardian s Felicity Lawrence
established that US Rangers were also training special troops in
Kyrgyzstan. There were unconfirmed reports that Tajik and Uzbek
special troops were training in Alaska and Montana.
13. Summer 2001 (est.) Pakistani ISI Chief General Ahmad (see
above) orders an aide to wire transfer $100,000 to Mohammed
Atta, who was according to the FBI, the lead terrorist in the
suicide hijackings. Ahmad recently resigned after the transfer
was disclosed in India and confirmed by the FBI. [Source: The
Times of India, October 11, 2001.]
14. Summer 2001 An Iranian man phones U.S. law enforcement to
warn of an imminent attack on the World Trade Center in the week
of September 9th. German police confirm the calls but state that
the U.S. Secret Service would not reveal any further
information. [Source: German news agency online.de , September
14, 2001, translation retrieved from online.ie in Ireland.]
15. June 26, 2001 The magazine indiareacts.com states
that India and Iran will facilitate US and Russian plans
for limited military action against the Taliban. The story
indicates that the fighting will be done by US and Russian
troops with the help of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. [Source:
indiareacts.com, June 26, 2001.]
16. August 2001 The FBI arrests an Islamic militant linked to
bin Laden in Boston. French intelligence sources confirm that
the man is a key member of bin Laden s network and the FBI
learns that he has been taking flying lessons. At the time of
his arrest the man is in possession of technical information on
Boeing aircraft and flight manuals. [Source: Reuters, September
13.]
17. August 11 or 12 US Navy Lt. Delmart Mike Vreeland,
jailed in Toronto on U.S. fraud charges and claiming to be an
officer in U.S. Naval intelligence, writes details of the
pending WTC attacks and seals them in an envelope which he gives
to Canadian authorities. [Source: The Toronto Star, Oct. 23,
2001; Toronto Superior Court Records]
18. Summer 2001 Russian intelligence notifies the CIA that 25
terrorist pilots have been specifically training for suicide
missions. This is reported in the Russian press and news stories
are translated for FTW by a retired CIA officer.
19. July 4-14, 2001 Osama bin Laden receives treatments for
kidney disease at the American hospital in Dubai and meets with
a CIA official who returns to CIA headquarters on July 15th.
[Source: Le Figaro, October 31st, 2001.]
20. August 2001 Russian President Vladimir Putin orders
Russian intelligence to warn the U.S. government in the
strongest possible terms of imminent attacks on airports and
government buildings. [Source: MS-NBC interview with Putin,
September 15.]
21. August/September, 2001 The Dow Jones Industrial Average
drops nearly 900 points in the three weeks prior to the attack.
A major stock market crash is imminent.
22. Sept. 3-10, 2001 MS-NBC reports on September 16 that a
caller to a Cayman Islands radio talk show gave several warnings
of an imminent attack on the U.S. by bin Laden in the week prior
to 9/11.
23. September 1-10, 2001 In an exercise, Operation Swift
Sword planned for four years, 23, 000 British troops are
steaming toward Oman. Although the 9/11 attacks caused a hiccup
in the deployment the massive operation was implemented as
planned. At the same time two U.S. carrier battle groups arrive
on station in the Gulf of Arabia just off the Pakistani coast.
Also at the same time, some 17,000 U.S. troops join more than
23,000 NATO troops in Egypt for Operation Bright Star. All of
these forces are in place before the first plane hits the World
Trade Center. [Sources: The Guardian, CNN, FOX, The Observer,
International Law Professor Francis Boyle, the University of
Illinois.]
24. September 7, 2001 Florida Governor Jeb Bush signs a two-
year emergency executive order (01-261) making new provisions
for the Florida National Guard to assist law enforcement and
emergency-management personnel in the event of large civil
disturbances, disaster or acts of terrorism. [Source: State of
Florida web site listing of Governor s Executive Orders.]
25. September 6-7, 2001 4,744 put options (a speculation that
the stock will go down) are purchased on United Air Lines stock
as opposed to only 396 call options (speculation that the stock
will go up). This is a dramatic and abnormal increase in sales
of put options. Many of the UAL puts are purchased through
Deutschebank/AB Brown, a firm managed until 1998 by the current
Executive Director of the CIA, A.B. Buzzy Krongard. [Source:
The Herzliyya International Policy Institute for
Counterterrorism, http://www.ict.org.il/, September 21; The New
York Times; The Wall Street Journal.]
26. September 10, 2001 - 4,516 put options are purchased on
American Airlines as compared to 748 call options. [Source: ICT
above]
27. September 6-11, 2001 - No other airlines show any similar
trading patterns to those experienced by UAL and American. The
put option purchases on both airlines were 600% above normal.
This at a time when Reuters (September 10) issues a business
report stating, Airline stocks may be poised to take off.
28. September 6-10, 2001 Highly abnormal levels of put options
are purchased in Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, AXA Re
(insurance) which owns 25% of American Airlines, and Munich Re.
All of these companies are directly impacted by the September 11
attacks. [Source: ICT, above; FTW, Vol. IV, No.7, October 18,
2001, http://www.copvcia.com/members/
oct152001.html. ]
29. It has been documented that the CIA, the Israeli Mossad and
many other intelligence agencies monitor stock trading in real
time using highly advanced programs reported to be descended
from Promis software. This is to alert national intelligence
services of just such kinds of attacks. Promis was reported, as
recently as June, 2001 to be in Osama bin Laden s possession
and, as a result of recent stories by FOX, both the FBI and the
Justice Department have confirmed its use for U.S. intelligence
gathering through at least this summer. This would confirm that
CIA had additional advance warning of imminent attacks.
[Sources: The Washington Times, June 15, 2001; FOX News, October
16, 2001; FTW, October 26, 2001, -
http://www.copvcia.com/members/
magic_carpet.html; FTW, Vol. IV, No.6, Sept. 18, 2001 -
http://www.copvcia.com/members/
sept1801.html; FTW, Vol. 3, No 7, 9/30/00 -
www.copvcia.com/stories/
may_2001/052401_promis.html.
30. September 11, 2001 Gen Mahmud of the ISI (see above),
friend of Mohammed Atta, is visiting Washington on behalf of the
Taliban. [Source: MS-NBC, Oct. 7.]
31. September 11, 2002 Employees of Odigo, Inc. in Israel, one
of the world s largest instant messaging companies, with offices
in New York, receive threat warnings of an imminent attack on
the WTC less than two hours before the first plane hits the WTC.
Law enforcement authorities have gone silent about any
investigation of this. The Odigo Research and Development
offices in Israel are located in the city of Herzliyya, a ritzy
suburb of Tel Aviv which is the same location as the Institute
for Counter Terrorism which breaks early details of insider
trading on 9-11. [Source: CNN s Daniel Sieberg, 9/28/01;
Newsbytes, Brian McWilliams, 9/27/01; Ha aretz, 9/26/01.].
32. September 11, 2001 - For 35 minutes, from 8:15 AM until 9:05
AM, with it widely known within the FAA and the military that
four planes have been simultaneously hijacked and taken off
course, no one notifies the President of the United States. It
is not until 9:30 that any Air Force planes are scrambled to
intercept, but by then it is too late. This means that the
National Command Authority waited for 75 minutes before
scrambling aircraft, even though it was known that four
simultaneous hijackings had occurred an event that has never
happened in history. [Sources: CNN, ABC, MS-NBC, The Los Angeles
Times, The New York Times.]
33. September 13, 2001 China is admitted to the World Trade
Organization quickly, after 15 years of unsuccessful attempts.
[Source: The New York Times, Sept. 30, 2001.]
34. September 14, 2001 Canadian jailers open the sealed
envelope from Mike Vreeland in Toronto and see that is describes
attacks against the WTC and Pentagon. The U.S. Navy subsequently
states that Vreeland was discharged as a seaman in 1986 for
unsatisfactory performance and has never worked in intelligence.
[Source: The Toronto Star, Oct. 23, 2001; Toronto Superior Court
records]
35. September 15, 2001 The New York Times reports that Mayo
Shattuck III has resigned, effective immediately, as head of the
Alex (A.B) Brown unit of Deutschebank.
36. September 29, 2001 The San Francisco Chronicle reports
that $2.5 million in put options on American Airlines and United
Airlines are unclaimed. This is likely the result of the
suspension in trading on the NYSE after the attacks which gave
the Securities and Exchange Commission time to be waiting when
the owners showed up to redeem their put options.
37. October 10, 2001 The Pakistani newspaper The Frontier Post
reports that U.S. Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain has paid a call
on the Pakistani oil minister. A previously abandoned Unocal
pipeline from Turkmenistan, across Afghanistan, to the Pakistani
coast, for the purpose of selling oil and gas to China, is now
back on the table in view of recent geopolitical developments.
38. Mid October, 2001 The Dow Jones Industrial Average, after
having suffered a precipitous drop has recovered most of its pre-
attack losses. Although still weak, and vulnerable to negative
earnings reports, a crash has been averted by a massive infusion
of government spending on defense programs, subsidies
for affected industries and planned tax cuts for corporations.
39. November 21, 2001 The British paper The Independent runs a
story headlined, Opium Farmers Rejoice at the Defeat of the
Taliban. The story reports that massive opium planting is
underway all over the country.
40. November 25, 2001 The Observer runs a story
headlined Victorious Warlords Set To Open the Opium
Floodgates. It states that farmers are being encouraged by
warlords allied with the victorious Americans are being
encouraged to plant as much opium as possible.
41. December 4, 2001 Convicted drug lord and opium kingpin
Ayub Afridi is recruited by the US government to help establish
control in Afghanistan by unifying various Pashtun warlords. The
former opium smuggler who was one of the CIA s leading assets in
the war against the Russians is released from prison in order to
do this. [Source: The Asia Times Online, 12/4/01].
42. December 25, 2001 Newly appointed afghani Prime Minister
Hamid Karzai is revealed as being a former paid consultant for
Unocal. [Source: Le Monde.]
43. January 3, 2002 President Bush appoints Zalamy Khalilzad
as a special envoy to Afghanistan. Khalilzad, a former employee
of Unocal, also wrote op-eds in the Washington Post in 1997
supporting the Taliban regime. [Source: Pravda, 1/9/02]
44. January 4, 2002 Florida drug trafficking explodes after 9-
11. In a surge of trafficking reminiscent of the 1980s the
diversion of resources away from drug enforcement has opened the
floodgates for a new surge of cocaine and heroin from South
America. [The Christian Science Monitor, January 4, 2002.
45. January 10, 2002 In a call from a speaker phone in open
court, attorneys for Mike Vreeland call the Pentagon s
switchboard operator who confirms that Vreeland is indeed a
Naval Lieutenant on active duty. She provides an office number
and a direct dial phone extension to his office in the Pentagon.
[Source: Attorney Rocco Galati; court records Toronto Superior
Court.]
46. February 9, 2002 Pakistani leader General Musharraf and
Afghan leader Hamid Karzai announce their agreement
to cooperate in all spheres of activity including the proposed
Central Asian pipeline. Pakistan will give $10 million to
Afghanistan to help pay Afghani government workers. [Source: The
Irish Times, 2/9/02]
Now, let s go back to the October 31 story by Le Figaro the
one that has Osama bin Laden meeting with a CIA officer in Dubai
this June.
The story says that, Throughout his stay in the hospital, Osama
Bin Laden received visits from many family members [There goes
the story that he s a black sheep!] and Saudi Arabian Emirate
personalities of status. During this time the local
representative of the CIA was seen by many people taking the
elevator and going to bin Laden s room.
Several days later the CIA officer bragged to his friends about
having visited the Saudi millionaire. From authoritative
sources, this CIA agent visited CIA headquarters on July 15th,
the day after bin Laden s departure for Quetta
According to various Arab diplomatic sources and French
intelligence itself, precise information was communicated to the
CIA concerning terrorist attacks aimed at American interests in
the world, including its own territory.
Extremely bothered, they [American intelligence officers in a
meeting with French intelligence officers] requested from their
French peers exact details about the Algerian activists
[connected to bin Laden through Dubai banking institutions],
without explaining the exact nature of their inquiry. When asked
the question, What do you fear in the coming days? the
Americans responded with incomprehensible silence.
On further investigation, the FBI discovered certain plans that
had been put together between the CIA and its Islamic friends
over the years. The meeting in Dubai is, so it would seem,
consistent with a certain American policy.
Even though Le Figaro reported that it had confirmed with
hospital staff that bin Laden had been there as reported,
stories printed on November 1 contained quotes from hospital
staff that these reports were untrue. On November 1, as reported
by the Ananova press agency, the CIA flatly denied that any
meeting between any CIA personnel and Osama bin Laden at any
time.
In the most ironic twist of all, FTW has learned that Le Figaro
is owned by the Carlyle Group, the American defense contractor
which employs George Bush Sr., and which had as investors
until they sold their stake on October 26 - the bin Laden family.
Who do you believe?
