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CIA agent alleged to have met Bin Laden in July
The Guardian ^ | Thursday November 1, 2001 | Anthony Sampson

Posted on 10/31/2001 9:33:11 PM PST by CommiesOut

CIA agent alleged to have met Bin Laden in July

French report claims terrorist leader stayed in Dubai hospital

Anthony Sampson
Thursday November 1, 2001
The Guardian


Two months before September 11 Osama bin Laden flew to Dubai for 10 days for treatment at the American hospital, where he was visited by the local CIA agent, according to the French newspaper Le Figaro.

The disclosures are known to come from French intelligence which is keen to reveal the ambiguous role of the CIA, and to restrain Washington from extending the war to Iraq and elsewhere.

Bin Laden is reported to have arrived in Dubai on July 4 from Quetta in Pakistan with his own personal doctor, nurse and four bodyguards, to be treated in the urology department. While there he was visited by several members of his family and Saudi personalities, and the CIA.

The CIA chief was seen in the lift, on his way to see Bin Laden, and later, it is alleged, boasted to friends about his contact. He was recalled to Washington soon afterwards.

Intelligence sources say that another CIA agent was also present; and that Bin Laden was also visited by Prince Turki al Faisal, then head of Saudi intelligence, who had long had links with the Taliban, and Bin Laden. Soon afterwards Turki resigned, and more recently he has publicly attacked him in an open letter: "You are a rotten seed, like the son of Noah".

The American hospital in Dubai emphatically denied that Bin Laden was a patient there.

Washington last night also denied the story.

Private planes owned by rich princes in the Gulf fly frequently between Quetta and the Emirates, often on luxurious "hunting trips" in territories sympathetic to Bin Laden. Other sources confirm that these hunting trips have provided opportunities for Saudi contacts with the Taliban and terrorists, since they first began in 1994.

Bin Laden has often been reported to be in poor health. Some accounts claim that he is suffering from Hepatitis C, and can expect to live for only two more years.

According to Le Figaro, last year he ordered a mobile dialysis machine to be delivered to his base at Kandahar in Afghanistan.

Whether the allegations about the Dubai meeting are confirmed or not, the wider leaks from the French secret service throw a worrying light on the rivalries and lack of coordination between intelligence agencies, both within the US and between western allies.

A familiar complaint of French intelligence is that collaboration with the Americans has been essentially one-way, with them happy to receive information while giving little in return.



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1 posted on 10/31/2001 9:33:11 PM PST by CommiesOut
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To: madrussian; malarski; Askel5; GROUCHOTWO; Zviadist; kristinn; Free the USA; Black Jade...
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2 posted on 10/31/2001 9:33:36 PM PST by CommiesOut
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To: CommiesOut
If this is true, I wouldn't be surprised. Government corruption.....
3 posted on 10/31/2001 9:41:17 PM PST by new-here
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To: CommiesOut
I wonder if the American Loving French are just trying to prolong the conflict in order to sell more weapons to the M.E.?
4 posted on 10/31/2001 9:45:06 PM PST by evolved_rage
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To: CommiesOut
bin Laden treated at US hospital, (Mystery on top of Mystery)NOT a REPOST
CIA denies contact with bin Laden (re: Le Figaro report at Dubai hospital)
Bin Laden underwent treatment in July at Dubai American Hospital: (CIA Visits)
Bin Laden Treated at U.S. Hospital
American Hospital in Dubai denies treating bin Laden
Bin Laden underwent treatment in July at Dubai American Hospital
Bin Laden underwent treatment in July at Dubai American Hospital "where he met a CIA official"
French media reports claim bin Laden met CIA representative in Dubai hospital in July
5 posted on 10/31/2001 9:47:20 PM PST by Eric Esot
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To: Eric Esot; madrussian; malarski; Askel5; GROUCHOTWO; Zviadist; kristinn; Free the USA...
Saudi king names brother intelligence chief

US-educated Nawaf also served as commander of the royal guard, an adviser to the late king Faisal and head of the royal court

September 01, 2001, 09:50 AM

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's King Fahd has appointed one of his brothers, Prince Nawaf bin Abdul-Aziz, a former finance minister, to head the kingdom's intelligence apparatus, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.

A royal decree published by SPA late on Friday said Prince Turki Al-Faisal had asked to be relieved from his position as general intelligence chief. He had held the post since 1977.

The decree did not give the reason of the resignation of Turki, a brother of foreign minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal.

US-educated Nawaf also served as commander of the royal guard, an adviser to the late king Faisal and head of the royal court.

http://www.arabia.com/saudi/news/article/english/0,5508,67190,00.html
6 posted on 10/31/2001 10:06:34 PM PST by CommiesOut
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To: Eric Esot
Thank you Erik!

These guys need another think tank. This lie approved by the Saudis and Obl and financed by them has been posted more times than ____________fill in the blank!

Erik, please update your list of these bs posts and be ready for the next earth shaking retread thread of how the CIA and OBL had Bennie's prostrate massaged free of charge this summer! I'm sure that we haven't seen the end of this Spam. It keeps returning like Freddie on Elm street. We can't kill it!

7 posted on 10/31/2001 10:08:15 PM PST by Grampa Dave
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To: Eric Esot
For your collection?

the denial...fwiw

http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/311001/dLAME48.asp

American hospital in Dubai denies treating bin Laden
AFP
(Dubai, October 31)

The American Hospital in Dubai categorically denied reports on Wednesday that the world's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden, underwent treatment there in July for a kidney complaint.

"He was never a patient here for any days," chief executive office Bernard Koval told AFP.

"Osama bin Laden has never been here. He's never been a patient and he's never been treated here. This is too small a hospital for someone to be snuck through the backdoor," he said.

8 posted on 10/31/2001 10:13:58 PM PST by amom
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A scene of the signing ceremony of peace accord between the "Afghan leaders" (Taliban) under the eyes of their Pakistani, Iranian and Saudi god-fathers (top row: Alleaddin Brojerdi, Iranian deputy foreign minister, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal).
9 posted on 10/31/2001 10:23:57 PM PST by CommiesOut
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To: CommiesOut
THe CIA were easy to detect because of the CIA logos on thier jackets too, huh?
10 posted on 10/31/2001 10:26:09 PM PST by Aztech
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To: Aztech
Who knows. After their brilliant work of defending this country everything is possible.
11 posted on 10/31/2001 10:40:06 PM PST by CommiesOut
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To: Aztech
But fortunately they are getting serious and go after the enemies:

'Neo-Nazis are main anthrax suspects'

Oct 29 2001

 

AMERICAN security services believe white supremacists in the US are behind the recent anthrax attacks.

They are also close to finding those responsible for sending the letters containing deadly spores of the disease.

The Sun quotes a US justice department source as saying links between neo-Nazis and Muslim extremists are also being investigated.

The source said: "These are groups organised into militia and survivalist movements.

"They pull out of society and take to the hills to make war on the government and they will support anyone else doing the same."

"We have to presume that their opposition to government is just as virulent as that of the Islamic terrorists, if not as accomplished."

The newspaper also says a message on the neo-Nazi National Alliance website after the World Trade Centre attack read: "The enemy of our enemy is, for now at least, our friend."

A senior US official said: "Everything seems to lean towards a domestic source. Nothing seems to fit with an overseas terrorist type operation."

http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100national/page.cfm?objectid=11393075&method=full

12 posted on 10/31/2001 10:48:50 PM PST by CommiesOut
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And here we have one info about Israeli help:

Israeli intelligence warned US days before attacks

IAN BRUCE

ISRAEL'S military intelligence service, Aman, issued an urgent warning of an impending terrorist "spectacular" against America, several days before the suicide bombers flew passenger airliners into New York's Trade Towers and the Pentagon on September 11.

Aman had no details of the targets, but picked up enough indicators of major terrorist activity from a combination of informants and electronic eavesdropping to send out an alert, which also covered US interests in Britain, France and Germany.

Much of the Israeli intelligence centred on Imad Mughniyeh, head of the Iranian-backed Hizbollah movement's foreign operations section, and on Dr Ayman Al Zawahiri, the Egyptian-born terrorist mastermind reputed to be Osama bin Laden's chosen successor.

The Israelis say they have evidence linking both men to agents representing SSO, Iraq's foreign intelligence service, and believe Baghdad has provided finance and logistical support to them.

Links between the terrorist network and Iraq have been established by Pakistan's shadowy ISI agency and by the Czech Republic's counter-intelligence service.

Salah Suleiman, an Iraqi SSO agent, was detained on the Pakistan border last October after a series of trips into Taliban-controlled territory to meet bin Laden. After interrogation, he was deported.

Iraqi agent, Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir Al-Ani, has been expelled by the Czechs for "conduct incompatible with his diplomatic status". They had been monitoring his activities after a tip-off from Israel that he was planning to bomb Radio Free Europe, a station financed by the CIA that broadcasts to Iraq and Iran. Baghdad regards the broadcasts as "an act of aggression".

During the surveillance, they photographed Al-Ani with Mohammed Atta, the al Qaeda agent believed to have flown the first plane into the World Trade Centre.

-Oct 31st

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/31-10-19101-0-24-15.html

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And here is another one:


ISRAEL DOES NOT SEE IRAQI INVOLVEMENT IN WTC


JERUSALEM [MENL] -- Israel has not confirmed reports of Iraqi involvement in either the Sept. 11 suicide attacks on New York and Washington or in the anthrax outbreak in the United States.

Israeli military intelligence has determined that there is insufficient evidence to link Baghdad to either attack in the United States. The determination is in contrast to reports from Israeli sources of direct involvement by the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in the recent terrorist outrages.

"For the time being, we can't say that Iraq was directly responsible for Sept. 11," a senior Israeli intelligence officer said. "The anthrax attacks raise questions of who could have produced such a product. It must have been somebody with advanced infrastructure. But it doesn't mean Iraq."

In Washington, the ABC television network reported that two laboratories have concluded that anthrax found in the outbreak in the United States was coated with additives linked to Iraq's biological weapons program. The network said traces of bentonite and silica were used to keep the anthrax particles from sticking to each other and more easily inhaled. Iraq is known to be the only country to use bentonite in the production of biological weapons.

On late Monday, the United States has issued an alert of a new terrorist attack either in the country or overseas. It was the second alert this month.

"The administration has concluded, based on information developed that there may be additional terrorist attacks within the United States and against United States interests over the next week," Attorney General John Ashcroft said.

It was not clear how much of the assessment represents Israeli intelligence information or diplomatic considerations. Soon after the Sept. 11 attacks, Israeli intelligence commanders informed the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that Iraq appears to have been involved in the suicide crashes that destroyed the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon.

But within days, Israeli officials played down Saddam's involvement in an effort to avoid being an Iraqi target. In 1991, Iraq fired 42 ballistic missiles toward Israel.

Still, U.S. officials appeared to agree with the Israeli assessment. They said recent tests of the anthrax bacteria did not find the bentonite compound found in Iraq. The Israeli intelligence officer said Iraq feels the pressure of the United States and its allies and believes that it will be the next target of Washington.

On Tuesday, however, Arab League chief Amr Mussa told the London-based Al Hayat daily that Iraq is not a U.S. target in the war against terrorism. Mussa returned last week from talks with Bush administration officials.

http://menewsline.com/stories/2001/october/10_31_2.html

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Now we know everything and can plan our future with a total peace of mind.


13 posted on 11/01/2001 12:31:56 AM PST by CommiesOut
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"If this is true, I wouldn't be surprised. Government corruption....."

Glad you found the conspiracy cave.

16 posted on 12/08/2001 4:20:40 AM PST by verity
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