Radio France confirms Laden / CIA meeting]

[Hakki Alacakaptan]

Is the CIA so incompetent that it forgot ObL was on the FBI's most wanted
list at the time of the get-well visit? Or maybe this was another bungled
assasination attempt? I can just picture it: Larry Mitchell, tipsy as usual,
lunges with the pillow and falls flat on his face, while ObL chides him on
the evils of drink.

Why on earth would the French government want to embarass its coalition ally
by leaking this story if it was so trivial? The CIA at the time was receving
reports from MOSSAD, and Russia had presented a highly detailed intelligence
report at the UN Security Council, on an imminent large-scale al Qaeda
attack, all of which was apparently ignored. US special forces were in the
Hindi Kush supposedly looking for ObL since 1999. So Larry Mitchell just
drops in for a friendly chat with the man 2 months before all hell breaks
loose, so what, right?.

Hakki Alacakaptan

 || -----Original Message-----

 || From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com

 || [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Carrol Cox

 ||

 ||

 || Thomas Seay wrote:

 || >

 || > Kelley,  I have not been prone to believe any of the

 || > "conspiracy theories" but I have been busy following

 || > them and, dropping work in the middle of the

 || > afternoon, in order to translate them.

 ||

 || What does this report have to do with any conspiracy theory? It simply

 || notes that the CIA is engaged in business as usual (which of course

 || always, for the CIA, includes a large dollop of mere incompetence). The

 || fact that a CIA agent met with Bin Laden in July has no other

 || significance than that a CIA agent met with Bin Laden in July. What in

 || the world kind of fantasy is being built around that fairly trivial

 || fact?

 ||

 || Carrol