BROTHERS IN ARMS: NATO & Al-Qaeda

(photo above)Osama Bin Laden and Zbigniew Brzezinski:

President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski visiting 'his boy', Osama Bin Laden, in training with the Pakistan Army, 1981.Photo originally scanned from the New York Village Voice. Photo credited to the Sygma/Corbis Agency, Paris.

Osama Bin Laden CIA agent

In mid-1979, about the same time as the Soviet Union deployed troops into Afghanistan, the United States began giving several hundred million dollars a year in aid to the Afghan Mujahideen insurgents. The most famous of the Afghan Arabs was Bin Laden. As the war neared its end, bin Laden organized Al-Qeada. Bin Laden received security training from the CIA itself. It is difficult to believe that the United States played no role in the operations of the son of one of the wealthiest men in Saudi Arabia. Indeed, it is much more likely that the United States knew full-well of bin Laden's operation and gave it all the support they could. An article in Der Spiegel, in 2007, entitled "Arming the Middle East", Siegesmund von Ilsemann called Bin Laden "one of the CIA's best weapons customers."

"Death" of Osama bin Laden

Now, at the top of FBI's most wanted list, bin Laden was allegedly killed on May 2, 2011 in Bilal Town, Abbottabad, Pakistan in a raid by U.S. special operations forces. Pakistani officials denied harboring or supporting bin Laden, saying that they had no knowledge that he was there. The official mission code name was Operation Neptune Spear, with Jackpot as the code name for bin Laden as an individual and Geronimo as the code word for bin Laden's capture or death. (Geronimo was the Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who defied the U.S. government and eluded capture.) After the raid, U.S. forces took bin Laden's body to Afghanistan for identification, then dumped it somewhere at sea within 24 hours of his death. Al Qaeda confirmed the death on May 6 with posts made on jihadist websites, vowing to avenge the killing. There is an outcry from some groups for the photo evidence of the death. White House said the photograph of a dead Osama bin Laden is "gruesome" and that "it could be inflammatory" if released. The only released image so far, apparently showing a dead Osama bin Laden broadcast on Pakistani television and picked up by British newspaper websites is a fake. The bloodied image of a man with matted hair and a blank, half-opened eye has been circulating on the internet for the past two years. It was used on the front pages of the Mail, Times, Telegraph, Sun and Mirror websites, though swiftly removed after the fake was exposed on Twitter. Obama has shown irritation that the focus is more on the photo than the fact that Osama was killed. The statements released state that the Osama is in fact dead, and was proven with DNA evidence (The White House claims there was a DNA match between the body and tissue taken from bin Laden’s dead sister’s brain). In a propaganda piece reeking of US Triumphalism, two alleged journalists, Adam Goldman and Chris Brummitt, of the Associated Press or, rather, of the White House Ministry of Truth, write, or copy off a White House or CIA press release that “Osama bin Laden, the terror mastermind killed by Navy SEALs in an intense firefight, was hunted down based on information first gleaned years ago (emphasis added) from detainees at secret CIA prison sites in Eastern Europe. How many Americans will notice that the first paragraph of the “report” justifies CIA prisons and torture? Without secret prisons and torture “the terror mastermind” would still be running free, despite having died from renal failure in 2001. Americans are too busy celebrating to think, a capability that seems to have been taken out of their education.

Yes, Osama bin Laden is dead... He's been dead for almost ten years. Osama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported (Dec 2001), citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader. Bin Laden, according to the source, was suffering from a serious lung complication and succumbed to the disease in mid-December 2001, in the vicinity of the Tora Bora mountains. Another source, a former CIA agent, currently living in Turkey , Berkan Yashar, himself an ethnic Chechen, told the Russian TV station, Channel One. “Samy, Ayub and Mahmud (Bin Laden's Chechen bodyguards) were with him right to the end. I remember well this date as there were three sixes in it – June 26, 2006. Those three men, as well as two Muslims from London and two from the US saw Bin Laden dead.He was seriously ill before his death. He faded away to skin and bone. The three Chechens washed his body before burying it.”

Yashar also said that on the eve of May 2, when President Obama announced that Bin Laden had been killed, the Americans found only Bin Laden’s grave near the Afghan-Pakistani border and staged an operation. According to Yashar, US special forces started hunting Bin Laden’s Chechen guards after Bin Laden’s death was first announced at a conference in Washington in November 2008. The last of them, Samy, was taken by the American special forces a few days before Bin Laden was officially pronounced dead. Berkan Yashar believes Samy could have told them the exact place of burial.

Allegedly, the “most wanted criminal” was not moving from hide-out to hide-out in desolate mountains, but ensconced in luxury quarters in broad daylight. Nevertheless, despite his obvious location, it took the CIA years to find him after claiming to have gained information of his whereabouts out of captives in secret prisons. So the claimed murder of bin Laden by the US in a sovereign foreign country with which the US is not at war, a crime under international law, has set up three more self-serving possibilities: Terrorists will avenge bin Laden’s death, says the CIA, setting up another false flag attack to keep the profits flowing into the military/security complex and the power flowing into the unaccountable CIA. Homeland Security can extend the domestic police state, abuse of travelers, and arrests of war protestors. And Pakistan is under the gun of invasion and takeover (for India, of course) for shielding bin Laden. As the alleged body has been dumped into the ocean, nothing remains but the word of the US government, which lied about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and Al Qaeda connections, about Iranian nukes, and, according to thousands of experts, about 9/11. Suddenly the government is telling us the truth about bin Laden’s death? Obama needs closure of the Afghan war and occupation in order to deal with the US budget deficit. Subsequent statements from Obama regime officials suggest that the agenda might be to give Americans a piece of war victory in order to boost their lagging enthusiasm. Obama needs some "good news" after terrible failure in Libya. Dead or alive, it doesn't matter, Al-Qaeda lives on. There was no Al-Qeada in Iraq, Bosnia or Kosovo before NATO humanitarian operations.

LIBYA: Al-Qaeda and West on the same side

British MI6 and the CIA paid Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda $100,000 dollars to assassinate Gaddafi in 1996 (source). Indeed, it was Gaddafi’s Libya who put out the first Interpol warrant for Bin Laden’s arrest in 1998. Western intelligence agencies blocked the warrant from being pursued, and allowed Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda to go on and kill more than 200 people in the truck bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania Statements of support for Libya's revolution this year by Al-Qaeda and leading Islamists have led to fears that military action by the West might be playing into the hands of its ideological enemies. Some of the very rebels now being funded and trained by western forces were part of the Al-Qaeda cell that tried to kill Gaddafi on behalf of the United States and Britain 15 years ago. WikiLeaks cables, independent analysts and reporters have all identified supporters of Islamist causes among the opposition to Col Gaddafi's regime, particularly in the towns of Benghazi and Dernah. Col Gaddafi has pinpointed the rebels in Dernah as being led by an Al-Qaeda cell that has declared the town an Islamic emirate. The regime also casts blame on hundreds of members of the Libyan Islamist Fighting Group released since the group renounced violence two years ago. The man running Dernah's defences, Abdelkarim al-Hasadi, was arrested by US forces in Afghanistan in 2002. Achieving new heights of hypocrisy, the U.S government is hyping the threat of Libyan-backed reprisal terror attacks inside the United States, while launching air strikes in support of so-called “protesters” who have commandeered fighter jets and tanks, and are in fact Islamic fundamentalist Al-Qaeda cells who want to impose sharia law in Libya. The UN-backed air strikes have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with protecting the human rights of “protesters”. This is about giving war a new facelift, leaving the new world order free to pillage any country they like in the name of “humanitarian” assistance. United States, which kills scores of innocent people every week with predator drone strikes, has now suddenly developed a conscience for human suffering. The whole farce mirrors Bill Clinton’s bombing campaigns in Bosnia and Serbia, which were also about helping Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda to topple autocratic but relatively moderate regimes, and were also military conquests packaged in the cloak of “humanitarian” deception by the global establishment media. (wanna know more?)