Notes
[1] “‘No-Go’ Tribal Areas Became Basis for Afghan Insurgency Documents Show”, George Washington University National Security Archive, September 13, 2010 <http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB325/index.htm>.
[2] “Turkmenistan and Pakistan Predict War, Even While ‘Working for Peace,’ in Afghanistan, and Continue to Support Taliban”, U.S. State Department, March 13, 2000 <http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB325/doc01.pdf>.
[3] David B. Ottaway and Joe Stephens, “Diplomats Met With Taliban on Bin Laden”, Washington Post, October 29, 2001; Page A01 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A3483-2001Oct28¬Found=true>.
[4] Kate Clark, “Taleban ‘warned US of huge attack'”, BBC News, September 7, 2002 <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2242594.stm>.
[5] J.M. Berger, “U.S. Had ‘High Confidence’ Of UBL Attack in June 2001”, INTELWIRE.com, November 7, 2008 <http://intelwire.egoplex.com/2008_11_07_exclusives.html>.
[6] “Terrorism: Demarche on Threat by Afghan-Based Terrorists”, U.S. State Department, June 27, 2001 <http://intelfiles.egoplex.com/2001-06-27-DOS-taliban-obl-meeting.pdf>.
[7] “Terrorism: Demarche on Threat by Afghan-Based Terrorists”, U.S. State Department, June 29, 2001 <http://intelfiles.egoplex.com/2001-06-29-DOS-taliban-obl-meeting.pdf>.
[8] Rahul Bedi, “India joins anti-Taliban coalition”, Jane’s Information Group, March 15, 2001.
[9] George Arney, “US ‘planned attack on Taleban'”, BBC News, September 18, 2001 <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1550366.stm>.
[10] “STAFFDEL focuses on Afghanistan at MFA”, U.S. State Department, August 30, 2001 <http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB325/doc03.pdf>.
[11] “Musharraf [EXCISED]”, U.S. State Department, September 13, 2001 <http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB325/doc03.pdf>
[12] “Deputy Secretary Armitage’s Meeting with General Mahmud: Actions and Support Expected of Pakistan in Fight Against Terrorism”, U.S. State Department, September 13, 2001 <http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB325/doc05.pdf>
[13] “Deputy Secretary Armitage-Mahmoud Phone Call”, U.S. State Department, September 18, 2001 <http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB325/doc07.pdf>.
[14] “Taleban to decide Bin Laden fate”, BBC News, September 17, 2001 <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1547076.stm>. See also Rupert Cornwell and Andrew Grice, “Taliban are given an ultimatum: hand over bin Laden or face attack”, The Independent, September 17, 2001 <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/taliban-are-given-an-ultimatum-hand-over-bin-laden-or-face-attack-751974.html>.
[15] “White House warns Taliban: ‘We will defeat you'”, CNN, September 21, 2001 <http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/09/21/ret.afghan.taliban/>. See also Luke Harding and Rory McCarthy, “Bush rejects Bin Laden deal”, The Guardian, September 21, 2001 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/sep/21/afghanistan.september1111>.
[16] “Mahmud Plans 2nd Mission to Afghanistan”, U.S. State Department, September 24, 2001 <http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB325/doc08.pdf>.
[17] Transcript of NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ With Tim Russert, September 23, 2001 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specials/attacked/transcripts/nbctext092301.html>.
[18] “Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand Bin Laden over”, The Guardian, October 14, 2001 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.terrorism5>. See also Andrew Buncombe, “Bush rejects Taliban offer to surrender bin Laden”, The Independent, October 15, 2001 <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bush-rejects-taliban-offer-to-surrender-bin-laden-631436.html>.
[19] Larry D. Hatfield, “Intense daylight bombing raids / Bush rejects new Taliban offer to send bin Laden to 3rd country”, San Francisco Chronicle, October 15, 2001 <http://articles.sfgate.com/2001-10-15/news/17621096_1_taliban-laden-bin>.
[20] Rory McCarthy, “New offer on Bin Laden”, The Guardian, October 17, 2001 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/17/afghanistan.terrorism11>.
[21] Kathy Gannon, “Official: Taliban Willing to Talk”, Associated Press, November 1, 2001.
[22] “Afghanistan: Bin Laden Denies Involvement in Terrorist Attacks in US”, Peshawar Afghan Islamic Press News Agency, September 16, 2001; from “Compilation of Usama Bin Laden Statements, 1994 – January 2004”, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, January 2004 <http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/ubl-fbis.pdf>. See also “Bin Laden says he wasn’t behind attacks”, CNN, September 17, 2001 <http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/16/inv.binladen.denial/>.
[23] “‘Exclusive’ Interview With Usama Bin Ladin on 11 Sep Attacks in US”, Ummat, September 28, 2001; from the FBIS compliation.
[24] “Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces, and Resources for a New Century”, Project for a New American Century, September 2000 <http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf>.
[25] Testimony of Andrew Krepinevich, Executive Director, before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, Marcy 5, 1999 <http://www.csbaonline.org/4Publications/Archive/T.19990305.Emerging_Threats,_/T.19990305.Emerging_Threats,_.htm>.
[26] George Jones, “Blair presents the ‘proof’ that bin Laden is guilty”, The Telegraph, October 5, 2001 <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/1358499/Blair-presents-the-proof-that-bin-Laden-is-guilty.html>
[27] “FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive: Usama Bin Laden”, Federal Bureau of Investigation, accessed September 20, 2001 <http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm>. “No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11”, ProjectCensored.org, accessed September 20, 2001 <http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/16-no-hard-evidence-connecting-bin-laden-to-9-11/>.
This is great work Jeremy. Each and every piece of fact that we knew or had an idea about has been proven right. Not a big fan of Pakistani establishment or government at all but their policy towards the Taliban was very reasonable and realistic. Nothing remains the same anymore, the Taliban have gone ballistic and al-Qaeda reared into a global monster. The only thing that stays the same is the brutal machinery of the CIA operated with the directives from the Oval Office. Another incident in my life that I wish never happened…but who cares what I and people like me think and believe in?
Please be so kind as to enlighten me as to the reason why the USA wanted Osama bin Laden to be handed to them prior to the 2001 crash of the world trade centre, what has he done that justified any death penalty or any sentence in any American court before that time, for I am certain that I am reading my dates correctly, the USA started their hunt on bin Laden long before the 2001 crash of the world trade centre.
From the FBI’s “Wanted” poster:
USAMA BIN LADEN IS WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE AUGUST 7, 1998, BOMBINGS OF THE UNITED STATES EMBASSIES IN DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA, AND NAIROBI, KENYA. THESE ATTACKS KILLED OVER 200 PEOPLE. IN ADDITION, BIN LADEN IS A SUSPECT IN OTHER TERRORIST ATTACKS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
El Qaeda took responsibility for the attack on the USS Cole. That would seem to be reason enough.
Reason enough for … ?
Great work! It shows how unnecessary and unjust this war on Afghanistan is. The neocon’s idea of ‘Regime Change’ is the main driving force behind the perpetual war. Now, as they have run out of all excuses they claim that they are in Afghanistan to protect Women Right. Although the supporters of the current Afghan regime are the main perpetrators of crimes against women.
I am not sure why we are trying to justify existence of Taaliban and innocnece of Osama? Pakistan had/has links to Taaliban and will keep those links: it is in the interest of Pakistan to have a relationship with a stakeholder in Afghanistan.
Didn’t, Musharraf admit that he had seen the evidence against Osama and based on the evidence he believed that Osama was behind the attacks?
I do not see the point of proving that Osama was not behind the 9/11 attacks? Anyone trying to prove that is, at best, smoking something that is clearly comming out of Afghanistan, or at worst, is bent on saying NO to everything the US does.
I am not sure why we are trying to justify the so-called “war on terrorism” on false pretexts.
It’s not up to people to prove a negative. The burden of proof that OBL was responsible for the attacks is upon those asserting that claim. As noted, the the Justice Department does not have enough evidence against him to indict him for 9/11 in a court of law. If you know of such evidence, I strongly suggest you forward it to the FBI.
Please supply us with web address for the information you refer to vis a vis Musharraf claiming he had seen the evidance against OBL.
Musharraf must have been the ONLY person in the World, to ever have seen this evidance as no other country has EVER seen it.
Mind you the previous U.S.Govt talked a lot about supplying it, too bad it never did.
You obviously have a computer; check out the picture of OBL in the THIRD video recovered by western intelligence. In the first two, instead of bragging, he denies any involvement. The third one, discovered in a hotel room in Pakistan, in which he admits responsibility, is hardly believable. The actor in this video has little resemblance to OBL. He looks more like W.C. Fields. He is also shown wearing jewelry. Wahhabi Muslems do not wear any. But, hey, the evidence was verified by Colin Powel, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld and others. Maybe you should try smoking some of that stuff. Might clear the fog between your ears.
My reading is limited however, what I have read indicates the Al Queda means “the list’. It was a list of names the CIA controlled in their agency programs in that area of the world. UBL worked for the CIA..
The soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan guard the poppies for the heroin.
Taliban is paid bribes or fees not to attack certain bases or soldiers in some areas.
A country to require evidence before complying with any request to turn a person over to another country for prosecution/persecution is reasonable and in the interest of justice required.
Even today, there are too many questions regarding 9/11 that are not answered, evidence is withheld, commissioners of the investigation team were all trying to “protect” certain persons so they did not look at evidence available. The A & E evidence is enough along with the conclusion of the investigating team that evidence was withheld and it was a whitewash investigation is more than enough reason to re-open the investigations with appropriate protections for the persons investigating and the witnesses. All statements of the rescue workers who have since died due to injuries sustained on that day need to be admitted into evidence as “death bed statements” with absolute credibility stipulated. The government does not deserve to have evidence dismissed or not allowed because they caused enough time to pass for people to die like this before they were forced to try to find any truth of 9/11.
Al Qaeda means “the base”. I’ve read, I think in the Guardian, that it was a reference to a database, a list of mujahedeen. But I’m not sure about that claim. UBL worked side by side with the CIA based out of Peshawar. However, most of the CIA money went via the ISI to Afghans, and Gulbaddin Hekmatyar in particular. UBL brought in foreign Arabs. The CIA most certainly must have been aware of him and his operation, but I don’t know any evidence UBL was a direct CIA asset.
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