[Tennessee_Bob]

What? Not a word about the spider people of Venus? They're pretty well involved too....

[cayman99]

Good post ,SharpEye,,I'll bet the "sheep class" here on FR will be bashing this big time.

[lonnie]

We all know 'The Carlyle Group' runs our foreign policy!
You'll have to come up with something new SharpEye. :^)

[Katya]

Oops I recognized HIS name: [Source: BBC Newsnight, Correspondent Gregg Palast – Nov 7, 2001].
Since Palast has been on his own personal Jihad against everything Bush, I tend to believe about 1%....now I'll have to figure out which 1% is true.

[G.Mason]

Should this article be true along with other articles from "COPVCIA" then we are ALL in over our heads.

[SuperLuminal]

However, this article, possibly true, misses the most important point for discussion.

At the time of this meeting, Klintonian CIA accomplishments/successes in diversity recruiting and training were peaking. (It will take many years to remove all the "sleepers"!)

We must keep our eye on the really important "ball" here. Trivia like "letting Bin Laden slip through U.S. fingers" is insignificant in comparison.[/sarcasm]

[cake_crumb]

"© COPYRIGHT 2001, All Rights Reserved, Michael C. Ruppert and From The Wilderness Publications"

What does that make this guy's actual job description...investigative reporter for Green Peace???

We need a "Tin Foil Hat Award" for the most far-fetched, creative-fact-twisting, paranoid "reporting".

[Tarakotchi]

I thought copvcia posts were verboten; the thread nannies must have the day off today:

Copvcia really publicized the put options story mentioned above but made much of the "Buzzy" Krongard connection, which I think is very weak. Threads and posts regarding this got yanked, it wasn't until the U.K. Independent regurgitated the story in a slightly milder form that it survived in a F.R. thread: CIA-Connected Brokerage Handled Terror Trades

Anyway to me the really interesting question about that particular issue is, what on earth happened to the put option money trail? Was there ever a follow up or are we just supposed to forget about it?

[Clovis_Skeptic]

I dont know what to make of all this as of yet. But, as a Conspiracy Therorist at heart, I shall keep my tin foil hat at arms length at all times.

Some of all this is easier for me to believe, than our being totally suprised by the attacks on 9/11. And, yes the tail section just falls off of airliners, and TWA 800's fuel tank exploded...and...(reaching out for tin foil hat, just in case).......

[OKCSubmariner]

FYI

[Kermit]

Bin Laden's hospital visit has been thoroughly discredited. Didn't happen.

[Verax]

The CIA was there because Daddy Bush and his cronies sent him there to broker a deal with Bin Laden to lay their oil pipeline through Afghanistan.

Bin Laden wouldn't capitulate...so we had to bomb the hell out of him. But first we needed a pretext.

[Ol' Sparky]

Amazing. This website backs up everything Maxine Waters was saying about the CIA's drug dealing in LA. Anyone who is a friend of Castro's has to be a credible source. And the website even has a letter from Cynthia McKinney on the drug war.

[SSN558]

Tin foil hat time. I passed through Dubai airport on July 13, 2000 and nothing appeared to be out of the ordianry. Just the occasional guard carrying an M16 shorty. A week before something was up in Abu Dahbi airport. For about a five kilometer streach there were armed rag heads every 50-100 meters loitering under palm trees to get out of the heat. Also a small vehicle with anti-aircraft cannon.

[JoeSchem]

Do you have pictures, recordings, affadavits -- or are we supposed to believe this just because you say so?

[hflynn]

On October 31, the French daily Le Figaro dropped a bombshell. While in a Dubai hospital receiving treatment for a chronic kidney infection last July, Osama bin Laden met with a top CIA official - presumably the Chief of Station.

The above statement is almost correct. What really happened is this:

On October 31, the French daily Le Figaro dropped a bombshell. While in a Dubai hospital receiving treatment for a chronic kidney infection last July, Osama bin Laden met with a top Culinary Institute of America (CIA) official - presumably the Chef on Station. It seems Osama is looking to publish a book on "Cave Cuisine" as he plans his retirement from terrorism and transition into a new career as a restaurateur in New York.