fwiw.
jeff
Begin forwarded message:
> From: David Harnden-Warwick <davidh-w at attbi.com>
> Date: Tue Jun 11, 2002 05:26:07 PM US/Central
> To: braintrust at brainmortgage.com
> Subject: Re: [braintrust]: Fwd: What did Blair know?
> Reply-To: braintrust at brainmortgage.com
>
>
> I had not heard this link explicitly stated, but it makes perfect
> sense. The
> common thread I'd pursue would be Francis X. Taylor, Bush's
> counterterrorism
> guy. Check out:
>
> http://www.warroom.com/nyterrorism/tonyblair.htm
>
> ---
> Blair's speech Tuesday was preceded by remarks by NATO
> Secretary-General Lord
> Robertson in Brussels, in which he said that "it is clear that all
> roads lead
> to Al Qaeda and pinpoint Usama bin Laden as having been involved in [the
> attacks on the United States]."
>
> Following a classified briefing by U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Francis X.
> Taylor
> to NATO's ruling council, Robertson said there is "clear and compelling
> evidence" that the attacks on the United States were "directed from
> abroad."
> ---
>
> Blair gave his October "evidence" speech at the same time as Taylor's
> briefing of Robertson; stands to reason that Tony got briefed earlier.
> Seymour Hersh makes the link more definite in his current New Yorker
> article:
>
> http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020603fa_FACT
>
> ---
> "On September 23rd, twelve days after the terror attacks on America,
> Secretary of State Colin Powell told a Sunday-morning television-news
> show
> that the Bush Administration planned to publish a white paper that would
> prove to the world that Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda organization
> were
> responsible for the hijackings. "We are putting all of the information
> that
> we have together, the intelligence information, the information being
> generated by the F.B.I. and other law-enforcement agencies," Powell
> said. The
> information that the White House had available, we now know, included a
> top-secret briefing, given to President Bush on August 6th, documenting
> what
> was known about Al Qaeda's determination to attack American targets. The
> briefing, prepared by the C.I.A. at the President's request, was
> reportedly
> entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." It warned that Al
> Qaeda
> hoped to "bring the fight to America." Despite Powell's declaration, the
> Administration never released the white paper. And in October, when the
> evidence of bin Laden's involvement was made public, by proxy—by the
> British
> Prime Minister, Tony Blair—there was no mention of the pre-attack
> warnings.
> In fact, the white paper stated, incorrectly, that no such information
> had
> been available before the attacks: "After 11 September we learned that,
> not
> long before, Bin Laden had indicated he was about to launch a major
> attack on
> America."
> ---
>
> Not a slam dunk. But close.
>
> D.
>
>
> Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
>
>> veeery interesting.
>>
>> dave?
>>
>> j
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>
>>> Date: Tue Jun 11, 2002 02:05:04 PM US/Central
>>> To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>>> Subject: What did Blair know?
>>> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>>>
>>> I've heard it suggested that the "secret evidence" that Tony Blair
>>> said
>>> convinced him that Bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks was
>>> in
>>> fact the August 6th intelligence briefing that Bush received. Does
>>> anyone
>>> have a source for this report? (Beyond prorev.com and brasscheck.com.)
>>> Thanks. --CGE
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> jeff fisher
>> dilettante--er, that's "so-called intellectual"
>> http://www.brainmortgage.com/
>