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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 07:24 PM
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Tenet: CIA didn't hit bin Laden in Afghanistan..was with UAE royal family
UAE royals, bin Laden's saviours

March 25, 2004 12:04 IST

http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/mar/25osama.htm

The Central Intelligence Agency did not target Al Qaeda chief Osama bin laden once as he had the royal family of the United Arab Emirates with him in Afghanistan, the agency's director, George Tenet, told the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States on Thursday.

Had the CIA targeted bin Laden, half the royal family would have been wiped out as well, he said.



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RDANGELO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 07:27 PM
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1. WOW!!!!!! n/t
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Flabbergasted Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 07:28 PM
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2. This is all so wierd
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Caution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 07:28 PM
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3. Has anyone seen this sourced anywhere else?
I keep seeing this exact link but without any other sourcing.
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 07:29 PM
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5. You beat me to it. I completely agree with you
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 07:36 PM
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6. Here:
Edited on Wed Feb-22-06 07:37 PM by babylonsister
OBL in US Army hospital Dubai, UAE ~two months prior to 9/11

Edited on Wed Feb-22-06 04:17 PM by happydreams
If the CBS report by Dan Rather is accurate and Osama had indeed been admitted to the Pakistani military hospital on September 10, 2001, courtesy of America's ally, he was in all likelihood still in hospital in Rawalpindi on the 11th of September, when the attacks occurred. In all probability, his whereabouts were known to US officials on the morning of September 12, when Secretary of State Colin Powell initiated negotiations with Pakistan, with a view to arresting and extraditing bin Laden.

A recent Reuters report (11/13/03; scroll down) quoting Labeviere's book "Corridors of Terror" points to alleged "negotiations" between Osama bin Laden and the CIA, which took place two months prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks at the American Hospital in Dubai, UAE, while bin Laden was recovering from a kidney dialysis treatment

Enemy Number One in hospital recovering from dialysis treatment "negotiating with CIA"?

The meeting with the CIA head of station at the American Hospital in Dubai, UAE was confirmed by a report in the French daily newspaper Le Figaro, published in October 2001. (See Alexandra Richard, at http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/RIC111B.html ,

For a virtual tour of the hospital click http://www.ahdubai.com/site/tour_1.htm


The "negotiations" between the CIA and Osama (a CIA "intelligence asset") is sheer disinformation. Even though the CIA has refuted the claim, the report serves to highlight Osama as a bona fide "Enemy of America," rather than a creation of the CIA. In the words of former CIA agent Milt Bearden in an interview with Dan Rather on September 12, 2001, “If they didn’t have an Osama bin Laden, they would invent one.”

Intelligence negotiations never take place on a hospital bed. The CIA knew Osama was at the American Hospital in Dubai. Rather than negotiate, they could have arrested him. He was on the FBI most wanted list.

According to the Reuters report: "At the time, bin Laden had a multi-million dollar price on his head for his suspected role in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa". So why did the hospital staff, who knew that Osama was at the American Hospital in Dubai, not claim the reward?

The Figaro report points to complicity between the CIA and Osama rather than "negotiation". (see excerpt below). Consistent with several other reports, it also points to the antagonism between the FBI and the CIA.

If the CIA had wanted to arrest Osama bin Laden prior to September 11, they could have done it then in Dubai. But they would not have had a the war on terrorism pretext for waging a major military operation in the Middle East and Central Asia.

According to Le Figaro:

"Dubai... was the backdrop of a secret meeting between Osama bin Laden and the local CIA agent in July <2001>. A partner of the administration of the American Hospital in Dubai claims that "public enemy number one" stayed at this hospital between the 4th and 14th of July. While he was hospitalized, bin Laden received visits from many members of his family as well as prominent Saudis and Emiratis. During the hospital stay, the local CIA agent, known to many in Dubai, was seen taking the main elevator of the hospital to go to bin Laden's hospital room. A few days later, the CIA man bragged to a few friends about having visited bin Laden. Authorized sources say that on July 15th, the day after bin Laden returned to Quetta , the CIA agent was called back to headquarters. In the pursuit of its investigations, the FBI discovered "financing agreements" that the CIA had been developing with its "Arab friends" for years. The Dubai meeting is, so it would seem, within the logic of 'a certain American policy.'" (http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/RIC111B.html )

The Figaro report is confirmed by several other news reports including the London Times (1 Nov 2001 at http://www.unansweredquestions.org/timeline/2001/london... ). During his 11-day stay in the American hospital, Osama received specialized medical treatment from a Canadian urologist Dr. Terry Calloway .(See http://www.ahdubai.com/site/ps18_2.htm )

Osama back in Hospital on September 10, 2001, one day before the 9/11 attacks

According to Dan Rather, CBS, Bin Laden was back in Hospital, one day before the 9/11 attacks, on September 10, this time, courtesy of America's indefectible ally Pakistan. Pakistan's Military Intelligence (ISI) told CBS that bin Laden had received dialysis treatment in Rawalpindi, at Pak Army's headquarters:
Edit to add:
Originally posted by DUer happydreams:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x493545
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 07:29 PM
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4. Who/what is rediff.com? Is there a better known source for this?
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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 07:40 PM
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8. Raw Story is linking to this on their front page:
At the top of the page:

Royal family of Arab Emirates met Bin Laden, CIA said...

http://www.rawstory.com/

...so as far as Rediff.com is concerned,

:shrug:

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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 07:43 PM
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9. Wipedia on rediff.com
Rediff.com India Ltd., is a popular news, information, entertainment and shopping portal. It was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India with offices in New Delhi and New York, USA. It has more than 200 employees. Rediff.com also offers the Indian American community one of the oldest and largest Indian weekly newspaper, India Abroad, which it acquired in 2001.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rediff.com - Definition in context
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biscotti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 07:39 PM
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7. Think Progress has some information on this.
U.S. Didn’t Target Bin Laden in 1999 Because He Was Meeting With UAE Royal Family
Dubai World Ports is controlled by the royal family of the United Arab Emirates. Atrios notes this morning that former CIA director Tenet told the 9/11 commission that the United States did not target Bin Laden at a camp in Afghanistan in February 1999 because he was meeting with the UAE royal family.

Here are some more details on the incident from the 9/11 commission. Here’s Tenet’s March 24, 2004 testimony:

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/22/bin-laden-uae-royals/
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 07:46 PM
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10. Thanks. If its in the 911 report no one in the Bush administration would
have read it.
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catmother Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 07:50 PM
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11. very interesting.
:dilemma:
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