My Theory - OBL was supposed to be the October Surprise and Bush* didn’t pull it off
El Mundo reported OBL was in China - earlier this month. Sounds like the US has been trying to make concessions to China. We’re giving/selling them nuclear reactors, Powell was going around saying there is only one China and it’s NOT Taiwan, Wednesday it was announced that 22 Chinese Muslims are to be released from GItmo. But China has been defending the PLO and OBL may have made a deal with China about controlling the Muslims in China...
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http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/Investigation/Insider_DTR.html Last week (Oct. 13th), the Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported that bin Laden was in China near the borders with Pakistan. British journalist Gordon Thomas wrote that bin Laden made an agreement with Chinese authorities to stop guerrilla war by Chinese Muslims against the government. Beijing however has denied this was true.----------
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_12904.shtml"... The agents furthermore believe that, previously, Bin Laden held various meetings with high officials of Beijing. He convinced them that he would be capable of obtaining peace in their Muslim provinces. 'We know about these meetings,' confirmed Mansur Ahmed, police chief of Bandipoor, North of Cachemira. 'However, they took place on Chinese territory.' Bin Laden is accompanied by Ayan al-Zawahiri, his primary advisor and personal physician (Bin Laden suffers from a serious renal ailment) ..."
The region has been relatively quiet since the time Bin Laden is alleged to have arrived in China.------
http://www.cicus.org/news/newsdetail.php?id=3168“ARTICLE ABSTRACTS:(China Information Center) Nils Diaz, chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatary Commission (NRC), said in his visit to Beijing that Washington would authorize the sale of US made nuclear reactors to China in a couple of months.“
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&nci... Oct. 28th - Chinese Muslims Held at Gitmo to Be Freed
WASHINGTON - Defense officials have authorized the release of a majority of the 22 Chinese Muslims being held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base, the State Department said Thursday.
Spokesman Richard Boucher said the Bush administration is seeking to relocate the Uighurs, from northwest China, in a third country because they do not wish to resettle in China. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=6be242963fd4f62d Taiwan stung by Powell endorsement of One China policy
Big News Network.com Wednesday 27th October, 2004
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has come under stinging criticism in Taiwan following his ringing endorsement of China's 'One China policy.
Speaking in China, on a three-nation trip to Japan, China, and South Korea, earlier this week, the secretary said, 'Our policy is clear, there is only one China. Taiwan is not independent. It does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation, and that remains our policy, our firm policy.more...
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Maybe China would rather work with OBL...
http://www.rense.com/general21/sh.htmChina defending the PLO
An hour after Ariel Sharon branded Yasser Arafat as 'an enemy of the free world' China's hard-line Foreign Minister, Tang Jiaxan, roused from his sleep his Israeli counterpart, Shimon Peres, with a blunt warning that there will be serious consequences if Mr. Arafat is harmed....
China's open intervention is the first public evidence of what Mossad, the CIA and other intelligence services have established. That China has seized on the deepening conflict to further establish itself in the region.
Those sources say through surrogate states like Iraq and Yemen, China has already supplied arms to the PLO. These have been smuggled down through the Bekaa Valley in South Lebanon into Israel.