Any thoughts on it? -Thomas
--- Thomas Seay <entheogens at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Here's my translation of the article...didn't
> proofread it too much but
> it is faithful to the original...see what you think.
> -Thomas
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>
> Le Figaro
>
> Alexandra Richard
> October 31, 2001 page 2
>
> Dubai, one of the seven emirates of the federation
> of
> United Arab
> Emirate
> in the north-east of Abu Dhabi. This city of
> 350,000
> inhabitants
> was the discreet locus of a secret meeting between
> Osama Ben Laden
> and the local representative of the CIA, in July. A
> member of
> the administration of the American Hospital of Dubai
> confirms
> that the public enemy number one stayed in the
> hospital from July 4th
> to July 14th.
>
> Arriving from the airport of Quetta, Pakistan, Osama
> Ben laden
> was transferred upon arrival at Dubai airport.
> Accompanied by his
> personal doctor and faithful lieutenant, the
> Egyptian
> Ayman al-Zawahari
> (though on this latter, the testimony of the
> eyewitness was not formal)
> , as well as by four body guards and an algerian
> nurse, Bin Laden was
> admitted
> to the American Hospital, a building of glass and
> marble situated
> between
> Al-Garhoud Bridge and Al-Maktoum bridge.
>
> Each story of the hospital has two VIP suites and
> around 15 rooms.
> The millionaire saudi was admitted to the reknowned
> department of urology headed by Dr. Terry Callaway,
> an
> expert
> on kidney stones and male infertility. In the
> course
> of several
> telephone calls, Callway did not wish to respond to
> our
> questions.
>
> In March of 2000 the weekly journal, Asia Week,
> published in Hong Kong,
> raised questions about Ben Laden's health, stating
> that he suffered
> fromm a serious physical problem and more precisely
> that he was in
> danger
> due to a kidney infection that had spread to the
> liver
> and required the
> care of a specialist. According to legitimate
> sources, Ben Laden
> had delivered to a post in Kandahar a mobile
> dialysis
> machine
> sometime in the first part of the year 2000.
> According to our sources,
> "this trip for reasons of Ben Laden's health" was
> not
> the first.
> Between
> 1996 and 1998, Osama ben Laden went to Dubai several
> times for health
> purposes.
>
> On September 27th, 15 days after the World Trade
> Center attacks,
> prompted by the request of America, the Central Bank
> of Arab Emirates
> froze the accounts and investments of 26 people or
> organizations
> suspected of contact with the Ben Laden
> organization,
> notably those
> of the Dubai Islamic Bank.
>
> "Relations with the Arabian Emirates have always
> been
> close", explains
> our source. The princes of the royal families which
> had recognized
> the taliban regime, visited Afganistan frequently.
> A
> prince of one
> of the royal families regularly partook of hunts on
> property owned
> by Ben Laden, whom he had known and socialized with
> for a number of
> years.
>
> Daily flights between Dubai and Quetta are
> guaranteed
> by both Pakistan
> Airlines and the Emirate airlines. Emirate and
> saudi
> private aircraft
> fly to Quetta frequently even though these are not
> recorded in
> the flight plans at the airport.
>
> Thoroughout his stay in the hospital, Osamma Ben
> Laden
> received
> visits from many family members and saudi arabian
> and
> emirate
> personalites
> of status. During this time, the local
> representative of the CIA
> was seen by many people taking the elevator and
> going
> to Ben Laden's
> room.
>
> Several days later the CIA person bragged to his
> friends about
> having visited the saudi millionaire. From
> authoritative sources,
> this CIA agent visited CIA headquarters July 15th,
> the
> day after
> the Ben Laden's departure for Quetta.
>
> At the end of July, emirate customs officials
> arrested
> a
> franco-algerian
> islamic activist, Djamel Beghal at the airport of
> Dubai. At the
> beginning
> of August, French and American authorities were
> notified. Interrogated
> by local authorities in Abu Dhabi, Begal says that
> he
> had been
> called to Afghanistan at the end of 2000 by Abou
> Zoubeida-Quaida.
> Beghal's mission was to blow up the US Embassy,
> avenue
> Gabriel,
> near the Place de la Concorde in Paris, upon his
> return to France.
>
> 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 within its
> own territory.
>
> In August, at the US Embassy in Paris, an emergency
> meeting was
> called with the DGSE and the highest american
> officials.
> Extremely bothered, these latter requested from
> their
> french peers
> exact details about the algerian activists, without
> explaining
> exactly the nature of their inquiry. When asked the
> question,
> "what do you fear in the coming days?", the
> americans
> responded with
> incomprihensible silence.
>
> Contact between the CIA and Ben Laden goes back to
> 1979 when,
> representing
> the family business in Istanbul, Ben laden begins to
> enrol volunteers
> from the arab-muslim world for the afghan resistance
> agains the Red
> Army.
> Looking into the attacks of August 1998 on the
> American Embassies
> in Nairobi, Keny and Dares-Salam, Tanzania, FBI
> investigators
> discovered that the traces left by the blast
> indicated
> that
>
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