Section B

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[edit] Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda

Introductory text here.

• B.1. Who Is Osama bin Laden?
  • B1.1. Alleged CIA Connections
    • B1.100. There is a longstanding relationship between U.S. intelligence networks and radical Islamists, including the network surrounding Osama Bin Ladin.
    • B1.101. Osama bin Ladin was trained and funded by the CIA
    • B1.102. 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
      • B1.301a. ...before international flights from the U.S. were re-authorized
      • B1.301b. The 9/11 investigations made light of the "Bin Ladin Airlift" during the no-fly period.
  • B1.5. The Bushes and the bin Ladens
    • B1.500. The families are connected through various financial relationships
      • B1.500a. The 9/11 investigations ignored the long-standing Bush family business ties to the Bin Ladin family fortune.
    • B1.501. A company in which both families held interests, the Carlyle Group, was holding its annual meeting on September 11th, with George H.W. Bush, James Baker, and two brothers of Osama Bin Ladin in attendance.
    • B1.502. Saudi Connections -- The issue of Ptech. (Huh? What is this?)
  • 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.