Section B

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Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda

Introductory text here.

• B.1. Who Is Osama bin Laden?
  • B1.1. Alleged CIA Connections
    • B1.100. bin Ladin was trained and funded by the CIA
    • B1.101. Did Osama Bin Ladin visit Dubai and meet a CIA agent in July 2001 (as reported in Le Figaro)?
  • B1.2. Responsibility for 9/11
    • B1.200. How could a guy in a cave have done all this?
    • B1.201. bin Ladin denied responsibility for 9/11
    • B1.202. And previously bin Ladin has clearly accepted responsibility for everything, why not this time?
    • B1.203. Who judges which of the many conflicting and dubious statements and videos attributed to Osama Bin Ladin are genuine, and which are fake?
    • B1.204. The most important Osama Bin Ladin video (Nov. 2001), in which he supposedly confesses to masterminding 9/11, appears to be a fake.
      • B1.204a. In any event, the State Department's translation of it is fraudulent.
    • B1.205. Richard Myers said on the record that "the goal has never been to get bin Ladin"
  • B1.3. The bin Laden Family
    • B1.300. Bush took FBI agents off the bin Ladin family trail
    • B1.301. The bin Ladin family were rushed out of the US after 9/11
      • B1.301.1. ...before international flights from the U.S. were re-authorized
  • B1.5. The Bushes and the bin Ladens
    • B1.500. The families are connected through various financial relationships
    • B1.501. George Bush senior met with a bin Ladin brother on the morning of 9/11
  • B1.6. Bin Laden's Health
    • B1.600. Was Osama bin Laden receiving dialysis in a Pakistani military hospital on the night of September 10, 2001 (as reported by CBS)?
  • B1.7. Whether by Bush or Clinton: Why is Osama always allowed to escape?

• B.2. Al Qaeda
  • B2.1. Origins and Activities
    • B2.100. The terror network associated with Osama originated in the CIA-sponsored 1980’s anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan.
    • B2.101. When did this network stop serving as an asset to covert operations by US intelligence and allied agencies?
    • B2.102. What were al Qaeda's operatives doing in the years prior to 9/11? (The implication appears to be that they were working on behalf of the CIA.)
      • B2.102a. Kosovo
      • B2.102b. Bosnia
      • B2.102c. Chechnya
  • B2.2. Organizational Structure
    • B2.200. Some say al Qaeda doesn’t even exist
  • B2.3. Name
    • B2.300. "al-Qaeda" means "the database"
    • B2.301. bin Ladin didn't use the name al Qaeda until after 9/11

• B.3. The Pakistani Connection
  • B2.1. The Pakistani intelligence agency ISI is a close ally to both the CIA and "al-Qaeda".
    • B2.100. The Pakistani intelligence agency ISI allegedly wired $100,000 to Mohamed Atta just prior to September 11th, reportedly through the ISI asset Omar Saeed Sheikh.
    • B2.101. Omar Saeed Sheikh was later arrested for the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was investigating ISI connections to "al-Qaeda".
    • B2.102. The Pakistani intelligence agency ISI created the Taliban.
  • B2.2. The ISI-Atta connection was ignored by the Congressional 9/11 investigation.
    • B2.200. Senator Bob Graham and Congressman Porter Goss, who would later run the Congressional 9/11 investigation, were meeting with the ISI chief Mahmud Ahmed on Capitol Hill on the morning of September 11th.
    • B2.201. About 25 percent of the report of the Congressional Joint Inquiry was redacted, including long passages regarding how the attack (or the network allegedly behind it) was financed.
    • B2.202. Senator Bob Graham later said foreign allies were involved in financing the alleged terror network, but that this would only come out in 30 years.