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.
Ironically enough, there's going to be a day when all of this politically correct, empathic, feel good commie pinko ideologies are going to be put to rest. I just hope that I live long enough to see it.
Actually 4 of the hijackers were from Afghanistan.
No Afghanis were among the hijackers. End of story.
I'd even bet you're an athiest too.
You must be new here.
You're probably one of those new age gurus who smoke clove cigarettes, drink latte's in Starbucks and eat nothing but vegetarian, all the while thinking happy happy joy joy thoughts.
Do you really think there are people like that on an explicitly conservative website? Is your ability to conceptualize abstract thought so limited?
From what I've read in our local papers, and have read on CNN, they have said that there were at least 4 hijackers from Afghanistan. Now, I would hate to say that they weren't reliable sources, but then again, the media has been wrong from time to time.
There's one thing I can say with crystal clarity, is that a lot of people on here do not approve of people taking the side of terrorists. I and a great many others do not see America as this great bully or tyrant. Now given that our government has acted like a 5 year old from time to time, and when it didn't get what it wanted it threw a tantrum. In this case, our bombing is justified, because we did after all, give these people plenty of time to cough up ONE man and his cronies. Was that too much to ask? Was it too much to ask a government, who sponsors terrorism, and treats its citizens like cattle, to cough up the bad guys?
If you think it was too much to ask, then you're asking for a whole new kind of abstract thinking that borderlines on idiocy.
I am one who believes that right now, our rights are about to be amended and not for the better. All because a lot of iiots think that our world will be safer without free thinking in it. I'm also a little concerned as to how this guy has managed to disappear when we have their country closed off. I'm also a little concerned at the idea of a lot of people vying for the power that could ultimately enslave every man, woman and child in this country. All in the name of safety and security.
I have a book out that goes into detail regarding a potential ChiComm plan involving Islam that kicks off in 2005-2006:
Dragon's fury - Breath of Fire
It's the first in a five part series on the third World War that results from it.
LOL! We don't always agree on everything but your method of analysis is very good IMHO. You don't seen to get bogged down with any pre-concieved notions that control your conclusions. I've been readin some of your stuff and appreciate the pings.
With enemies like that who needs friends?!?!?!
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