[lbo-talk] US let ObL slip away

Joseph Wanzala jwanzala at hotmail.com
Tue Aug 9 08:16:36 PDT 2005


Doug Henwood wrote:

<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8853000/site/newsweek/>

Newsweek - August 15, 2005 Exclusive: CIA Commander: U.S. Let bin Laden Slip Away ____________________

So.........Why would the White House and Pentagon want to allow bin Laden to escape? If bin Laden had been captured in December, 2001, the administration never could have sold the Iraq war to Congress and the American public. As we know from a number of sources, the administration was determined to invade Iraq even before 9/11. But as an American official said back in November, 2001, "casting our objectives too narrowly" risked "a premature collapse of the international effort if by some lucky chance Mr. bin Laden was captured." It's all been a treasonous charade.

http://www.pastpeak.com/archives/2004/06/the_antihunt_fo_1.htm

June 19, 2004 The Anti-Hunt for Osama bin Laden 9/11, "War On Terror"


>From The New Pearl Harbor, by David Ray Griffin, comes a startling
discussion of the supposed hunt for Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda during the war in Afganistan. Griffin draws on the work of Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, author of The War on Freedom, and Paul Thompson, author of the Complete 911 Timeline.

This is a lengthy excerpt, but worth it:

Ahmed and Thompson provide considerable evidence that although the war in Afghanistan was supposedly to root out al-Qaeda and bin Laden -- taking him, in President Bush's language, "dead or alive" -- the actual objective must have been something else, since there were several instances in which the government and its military commanders seemed at pains to allow bin Laden and al-Qaeda to escape. For example, according to many residents of Kabul, a convoy of al-Qaeda forces, thought to include its top leaders, made a remarkable escape [from Kabul] during one night in early November of 2001. A local businessman said:

We don't understand how they weren't all killed the night before because they came in a convoy of at least 1,000 cars and trucks. It was a very dark night, but it must have been easy for the American pilots to see the headlights. The main road was jammed from eight in the evening until three in the morning. Thompson comments, "With all of the satellite imagery and intense focus on the Kabul area at the time, how could such a force have escaped unobserved by the US?"1 [One might also ask why the al-Qaeda fighters were so confident they could move openly, en masse, without fear of attack from the air.]

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