The Curious Bush-Bin Laden Symbiosis

Robert Parry asks: What ties together two people who seemingly have nothing in common?





Money.

According to George W Bush, it trumps peace.

Ahem.

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have been on the same page for decades.

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--imm

Did some elites know and were they complicit in keeping OBL secret and safe? And if so, who participated? With the Bush and Bin Laden families being so close, (and OBL was also part of the upper echelons of Saudi intelligence, the house of Saud being another friend of the Bush family) is it possible that there was collusion to both shield OBL and keep him on ice/alive for the time being?

"We now know that Bush’s second term meant a continuation of bin Laden’s relative safety. In 2005, Bush closed down a special CIA unit that had been tracking bin Laden’s whereabouts for almost a decade, with its responsibilities merged with a broader counter-terrorism office.

In 2006, more information also surfaced about how Bush’s pivot to Iraq had protected bin Laden. Lt. Gen. John Vines told the Washington Post that his troops were within a half-hour of catching bin Laden but needed three drones to cover the escape routes. The general said only one drone was available because the others had been reassigned for service in Iraq.

According to new evidence that has surfaced since bin Laden’s death, it appears that early in Bush’s second term, bin Laden moved into the compound in Abbottabad, an hour-or-so drive from Pakistan's capital of Islamabad, where he set up house with family members, including his young wife."

Also from the article:

"A little more than a month after the CIA warning, on the morning of Sept. 11, George H.W. Bush and members of the bin Laden family were participating in a Carlyle Group investment meeting in Washington. It was disrupted by the machinations of another branch of the bin Laden family, when Osama’s al-Qaeda operatives hijacked planes and crashed them into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. According to one source, a bin Laden family member at the Carlyle meeting immediately sensed who was behind the terror attacks and removed his name tag."

Conveniently, (cough), while airlines were grounded after the 9/11 attacks, the Bin Laden family was allowed to leave the US without any detention or real interrogation. It's also interesting to note that GHW Bush was the former CIA chief with well known ISI connections which leads me to even more questions Octafish....

Thanks for a great article but I fear Robert Parry is skirting some even larger, darker, relationships and machinations.

Great point. What is also being overlooked is that because of his failure in Tora Bora, Bush and his administration began a campaign to downplay and marginalize Bin Laden's importance. He was in fact in command and in control of Al Qaeda. He was the bigest and most dangerous threat top America yet these guys lied to make us feel safer. We know he was in control because of the mountain of intelligence he had with him when he died.

Via the http://www.uni-muenster.de/PeaCon/global-texte/g-notes/BinLaden-Carlyle.htm">Carlyle Group, of course.

By James Bath.

-Hoot

....never know the truth, but one thing's for certain, it's not the party-line....