Looking for links to news stories about Afganistan, Bin Laden, Taliban, pre 9/11

[seemslikeadream]

a couple of months before "Bin Laden" destroyed the Twin Towers. Thanks

[SheilaT]

1. Don't remember anything like that,

but I can tell you that very shortly after 9/11, mere days later, the NYT was speculating that next would be an anthrax attack.

[seemslikeadream]

2. Thanks SheilaT, here's one

http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/01_columns/052201.htm

Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban
By Robert Scheer
Published May 22, 2001 in the Los Angeles Times


Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that this nation still takes seriously.

That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the world today. The gift, announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, makes the U.S. the main sponsor of the Taliban and rewards that "rogue regime" for declaring that opium growing is against the will of God. So, too, by the Taliban's estimation, are most human activities, but it's the ban on drugs that catches this administration's attention.

Never mind that Osama bin Laden still operates the leading anti-American terror operation from his base in Afghanistan, from which, among other crimes, he launched two bloody attacks on American embassies in Africa in 1998.

Sadly, the Bush administration is cozying up to the Taliban regime at a time when the United Nations, at U.S. insistence, imposes sanctions on Afghanistan because the Kabul government will not turn over Bin Laden.

The war on drugs has become our own fanatics' obsession and easily trumps all other concerns. How else could we come to reward the Taliban, who has subjected the female half of the Afghan population to a continual reign of terror in a country once considered enlightened in its treatment of women?

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. A few here

Bin Laden foreign legion fuels hardline expansion

Suspected Terrorists Possibly Linked to Bin Laden (US Embassies in New Delhi and Dhaka)

Dead man walking

A very interesting one:

A battery of Spada ground-to-air missiles will bristle at Christopher Colombus Airport, lest the al-Qaida terrorist group headed by Osama bin Laden tries an airborne spectacular.

For Italy's newly minted Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, Genoa is a chance to strut the world stage. He has micro-managed the preparations, even down to re-arranging the furniture in George Bush's suite.

Observer, Sunday July 15, 2001

[HamdenRice]

3. Try googling the major events he was linked with

USS Cole, African embassy bombings, etc.

Also, in retrospect, there was real hysteria over the Taliban's destruction of the Buddhist statues at Bamyan. I mean it was a terrible, terrible thing to do, but in retrospect, it almost seems like there was a propoganda element in its coverage.

Good luck!

[seemslikeadream]

4. Thanks HamdenRice

:hi:

Yes of course, now I remember that. "propoganda element in its coverage" I've got some thoughts on that!


Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. I know that there were rumors of a terrorist attack.

I personally recall that there was some strange story circulating at the time of the possibility of terrorists crashing a plane into the National Boy Scout Jamboree in Virgina (Bush was supposed to give a speech there, he never did). I was aware & paid attention to this
rumor because my son was attending it. That was in late July 2001. I don't remember where the story came from anymore, or if it was ever printed.

[slowry]

14. Same thing at the G8 summit in Italy. Hence the anti-aircraft missiles. n/t

[stillcool]

6. Global Policy Forum...

has lots of archived stuff...worth a quick run-through to see if there's something..
http://www.globalpolicy.org/wtc/analysis/anarch.htm

[Octafish]

8. Here are a few, my Friend...

Bush knew.

Plot to assassinate Bush – reports

Ashcroft Flying High

Genoa braces for G8 summit

Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill Dubya, his former business partner?



You writin' a book or sumpdin'?

[Octafish]

9. A Treasure Trove from Long Ago.

Everyone, what do you consider the Top Ten 9-11 Smoking Guns

[Octafish]

10. Almost forgot...

Lots. Lots.



September 11

[seemslikeadream]

11. You are a TREASURE TROVE

[slowry]

13. Plot to assassinate Bush (*cough*aamissiles*cough*) n/t

[Breeze54]

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=110&topic_id=80&mesg_id=80">PNAC Links Archive (Redux)


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=110&topic_id=80&mesg_id=149">A PNAC Primer: How We Got Into This Mess - Bernard Weiner, Counterpunch