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.
Yes, we are. You won't find anytime in the last 50 years that we have engaged in fighting any nation as strong as us. And there have and are nations at our strength or better which have caused problems throughout the world.
We only pick on the little guys.
Again, you're a fool to think that this is just for us to have a good time bullying a helpless downtrodden country. This is about principle. They struck first, we struck back. We're going to finish it, and you know, I can sleep pretty easily about it too. We'll probably go to war with China some day, and you'll see us win that one as well. You know why? Because luckily for the rest of us, our military doesn't have to listen to people telling them we have to try and see it from their side, or their point of view.
Again, we aren't bullies. Russia and China aren't interested in fighting us, because they know, THEY KNOW they can't beat us. If they dared invade us, they'd be met with civilians with guns as well. Of course the bleeding heart leftist liberal pinko commies want us to give up our guns, but then, they think everyone should be a communist.
So which category are you in, Free Thinking America, or BRainwashed, Communist Liberal America?
Our own elected officials are our own worst enemies for selling us out in acts of treason with China.
China is THE leading terrorist nation in the world as China supports terrorist groups like ALQaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah,Islamic Jihad and terrorist nations North Korea,Sudan,Iran,Iraq, Syria, etc with military hardware, money, intelligence and training.
GW Bush and his father have known this for years but Poppa Bush (UN ambassador to China) and Condi Rice want the US to enter a "New Age" of world government with China (Bush Sept 27, 1991 speech to the nation, Rice July 2000 speech to the Repub convention).
Even the Bushs' appeasement of China will not placate China, for China will, unless stopped, destroy and subjugate the US economically and military using terror surrogates without even having to fire a nuke missile.
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."
My immediate thought after reading this article: How would author Gordan Thomas be privy to all this information about private messages from Israeli Mossad agents and conversations between the head of the CIA and the head of Pakistani intelligence?
Really? When China brought down one of our spy planes what did you think of that? Why didn't we react militarily? Because we're bullies and we don't retalliate against strong nations.
And I'm with you regarding the fact that Afghanistan isn't the first country we've bullied. We've bullied a hundred at least. Columbia is off of everyone's radar screen but we're kicking the crap out of their civilian population in an effort to step up the "war on drugs." The war on terrorism is just another war on the innocent people of the world. More American and foreign civilians will be punished than any terrorists.
More anti-Americanism from terrorist sympathizer Demigod.
You're pissed that America whipped the Taliban so easily. Remember how your side said "THese are the most fearsome fighters in the world"?
TWO MONTHS and they're reduced to CRYING because the bombs are scaring them to death!
The Chinese are cowering. The U.S. is on their border, and we're about to build up our military and technological capability even more.
You idiots who think China would risk a war with its largest trading partner are smoking something.
America didn't whip them. The Northern alliance did. We dropped some bombs and the Afghans did all of the heavy lifting. Just like in 79, when Carter started funding the Mujahedin, we are using others to do our dirty work.
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