Where was Osama on September 11, 2001? by Michel Chossudovsky

[Joanne98]

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/where-was-osama-on-september-11-2001-by-michel-chossudovsky/

“Going after bin Laden” has served, over the last five years, to sustain the legend of the “world’s most wanted terrorist”, who “haunts Americans and millions of others around the world.”

Donald Rumsfeld has repeatedly claimed that the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden remain unknown: “It is like looking for a needle in a stack of hay”.

In November 2001, US B-52 bombers carpet bombed a network of caves in the Tora Bora mountains of eastern Afghanistan, where Osama bin Laden and his followers were allegedly hiding. These caves were described as “Osama’s last stronghold”.

CIA “intelligence analysts” subsequently concluded that Osama had escaped from his Tora Bora cave in the first week of December 2001. And in January 2002, the Pentagon launched a Worldwide search for Osama and his top lieutenants, beyond the borders of Afghanistan. This operation, referred to by Secretary of State Colin Powell as a “hot pursuit”, was carried out with the support of the “international community” and America’s European allies. US intelligence authorities confirmed, in this regard, that

“while al Qaeda has been significantly shattered, … the most wanted man - bin Laden himself remains one step ahead of the United States, with the core of his worldwide terror network still in place. (Global News Wire - Asia Africa Intelligence Wire, InfoProd, January 20, 2002)

For the last five years, the US military and intelligence apparatus (at considerable expense to US taxpayers) has been “searching for Osama”.

A CIA unit with a multimillion dollar budget was set up, with a mandate to find Osama. This unit was apparently disbanded in 2005. “Intelligence experts agree”, he is hiding in a remote area of Pakistan, but “we cannot find him”:

“Most intelligence analysts are convinced that Osama bin Laden is somewhere on the Afghan-Pakistan border. Lately, it has been said that he’s probably in the vicinity of the a 7700m Hindu Kush peak Tirich Mir in the tribal Chitral area of northwest Pakistan.” Hobart Mercury (Australia), September 9, 2006)


President Bush has repeatedly promised to “smoke him out” of his cave, capture him dead or alive, if necessary through ground assaults or missile strikes. According to a recent statement by president Bush, Osama is hiding in a remote area of Pakistan which “is extremely mountainous and very inaccessible, … with high mountains between 9,000 to 15,000 feet high….”. We cannot get him, because, according to the president, there is no communications infrastructure, which would enable us to effectively go after him. (quoted in Balochistan Times, 23 April 2006)

The pursuit of Osama

has become a highly ritualized process which feeds the news chain on a daily basis. It is not only part of the media disinformation campaign, it also provides a justification for the arbitrary arrest, detention and torture of numerous “suspects”, “enemy combatants” and “accomplices”, who allegedly might be aware of Osama’s whereabouts. And that information is of course vital to “the security of Americans”.

The search for Osama serves both military and political objectives. The Democrats and Republicans compete in their resolve to weed out “islamic terrorism”.
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/where-was-osama-on-september-11-2001-by-michel-chossudovsky/

[liberal N proud]

1. "The search for Osama serves both military and political objectives"

That is why we have never captured bin Laden, they don't want kill the Bogey man

[kimmerspixelated]

2. I agree.

It's hard to believe anyone can argue with this, but someone probably will, and then this thread might get locked and sent to the conspiracy section.

[bemildred]

4. Good enemies are worth their weight in gold.

Dead ones are worth their weight in platinum.

[pretzel4gore]

3. just thank god it aint Elvis....

seriously, the pig don't give a shit about obl or any of that nonsense- we are their enemy and we are the only ones they fear and hate. If chasing Elvis would somehow aid the bushmonkees in their ridiculous war on terror then they would do it (though vast swaths of people know Elvis died, even where he's buried etc. cnn/fox and the rest of pigmedia would 'discover' he was actually alive and the chase would be on, which is hardly any more preposterous or pointless then the chase for obl, who died before 911, imho) bush wasn't elected in 2000 election. That trumps everything afterward, uS politics-wise (indeed makes 911 lihop at the very least)