Posted on 12/14/2001 10:34:47 PM PST by spycatcher
Last spring, President George W. Bush faced his first major foreign-policy challenge when an American EP-3E surveillance plane was hit by a Chinese fighter and forced to land on Hainan Island. Tensions flared even further as China detained the 24 American crewmen for 10 days, the standoff eventually resolving after both plane and crew were finally released. Still, U.S.-Sino relations remained ominously chilly throughout the year, until they were overshadowed by the events of Sept. 11.
Post 9-11, the Bush administration's focus has, of course, been riveted on the terror war, and China has gone off the main radar. But despite Beijing's public support for the coalition's war on terror, regular rumblings of Chinese complicity with the terrorists have surfaced. Among them was a WND report of some Chinese fighters assisting the Taliban.
Now, author Gordon Thomas has written a book claiming that Beijing had an actual role in the Sept. 11 attack on America. In "Seeds of Fire," Thomas purports to show how Beijing is positioning itself to become America's "new major enemy."
An investigative journalist from Ireland and author of 38 books, Thomas points out that on Sept. 11, a transport plane from Beijing landed in Kabul. A Chinese delegation had gone to Afghanistan to sign a deal with the Taliban – reportedly brokered by Osama bin Laden – to provide the Afghans with missile-tracking technology, state-of-the-art communications and air-defense systems. In return, says Thomas, the Taliban would order Muslim separatists in northwest China to stop their activities.
In a Sept. 13 report, the Washington Post confirmed that Beijing had just signed a deal with the Taliban to provide Afghanistan "with much needed infrastructure and economic development assistance."
Due to the fall of the Taliban at the hands of opposition forces and the United States, however, "the goods were never delivered," Thomas told WorldNetDaily.
The delegation, says Thomas, included senior officers of the People's Liberation Army and the Bureau of State Security, as well as managers from two of China's leading defense contractors.
In his book, Thomas contends that hours after the plane landed in Kabul, CIA Director George Tenet received a coded "red alert" message from Israeli Mossad agents that presented a "worst case scenario" – that China would use a surrogate, bin Laden, to attack the United States.
Thomas also claims that the head of Pakistan's intelligence service was in Washington to meet with Tenet on Sept. 11, and that he briefed Tenet that day on the links between bin Laden and China.
The intelligence agent "told [Tenet] that China had made a decisive decision," wrote Thomas. "It was prepared to infuriate America and its allies in supporting bin Laden and the Taliban because Afghanistan fitted into China's own long-term strategic plans."
Saying that bin Laden has traveled to China numerous times to meet with officials there, Thomas contends that "almost certainly he talked to them about obtaining" material to build weapons of mass destruction.
China's President Jiang Zemin, adds Thomas, waited three days to contact Bush about the Sept. 11 attack and told the U.S. president that, vis-à-vis the war on terrorism, China would find itself in a "difficult situation, given our well-known position of opposing any interference in the internal affairs of any country."
Washington sources say that Bush "gritted his teeth and said he would push on without China," Thomas wrote.
The author also cites what he calls the "happy parties in the streets of Beijing" following the 9-11 attacks. "They're selling videos there with commentary saying, 'America had it coming,'" said Thomas. "Their message is: 'America can be defeated.'"
On another note, Thomas believes President Bush's decision to pull out of the ABM treaty will cause Russia and China to strengthen their ties – to the detriment of the United States. "It's in China's interest to see the U.S. destablilized," he added.
Prove it.
Have a look at what?
I'm not in your stinky bathroom so I don't know what you're reading.
Ask the Taliban which they fear more.
A B-52 or some Soldier of Fortune in a bush jacket?
I suspect you'll be seeing the proof any day now.
You can hear a B52 coming for miles. Besides. We're not after the taliban. We're after Al Queada remember? Not the taliban. Not Afghanistan. At least that's what they keep telling us.
Yeah. We can just see it now.
The letter just scares terrorists to death!
Nope. The Taliban were targeted because they are indistinguishable from their protected al-Qaeda.
We said no. But the target is still supposedly Al Quaeda. We are not talking about prosecuting anyone in the Taliban unless they also happen to be members of Al Quaeda.
You already know this. You just argue in order to argue. One of my faults as well. How about we save the bandwidth and agree to disagree.
Nogbad posted a link up above -- I'll have to check it out.
Why would Al Quaeda need to? The U.S. was sending the Taliban over 100 million dollars anually. Methinks you are in denial.
And he got that cash from where? What if it was the other way around? What if the 43 million dollars we sent to the Taliban in JUNE (by the Bush administration) actually paid for 9/11? Not on purpose mind you but indirectly.
Why don't you tell us, or better yet, tell the FBI.
Not even touching on the all ready large number of COSCO containers that are constantly moving
around our country now, let's take another look now - at the Panama Canal:
Chinese soldiers in the Panama Canal! LIVE Webcam! - Thread #5
..gave to the Chinese???
How did I miss this; clue me in, thanks, bttt
They are a nation of mediocrity. Why are they mediocre? Because the people of China are treated poorly by their communist government. If our country ever converted to Communism like the Dems, pinko libs want, you will want to live some place else. For one reason alone, your free thought, and free speech will pose a threat to the government. Of course nobody wants to talk about that fact. You Anti-American types are all the same. Ready to criticize and defame all that you can't identify with. You are so quick to judgement that all of America is evil, and a bully when in fact you enjoy the freedoms that our military personnel have died for.
If I were you, I'd take some pride in the fact that you get to sleep in a house, with your own bed, with blankets, and are able to eat at McDonalds, or get coffee at Starbucks whenever you want to. You should be thankful that you're able to talk badly about a country that gives you the oppurtunity to be something more than a poorly paid farmer who toils. Where your meager income is 100 times that of the average person in China. Think on the fact that our previous president sold us out to the Chinese. Think about how our military has been decimated. Think about how the previous administration is responsible for our lack of covert intelligence.
Then I want you to understand that America is no different than any other nation who has been assaulted. Had it been China, Russia, Germany, France, England, Afghanistan would be a parking lot. Our country has yet to bully these people. Never once did I say we've bullied anyone.
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