AT HOME WITH THE VIRGINS

OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD

Osama bin Laden oversaw and orchestrated the attack against the United States, carried out in 2001. It was a well-planned and carefully executed action; and its development was being tracked by American authorities during the months and years leading up to 9/11/2001.

A CIA memo was sent to President Bush (as part of what is called the ‘PDB’ or Presidential Daily Briefing)about a month before the attack itself. The memo was headed: "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inisde the United States".

The memo stated that the FBI had already detected "patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings". (Remember, this was well before the actual attacks).).

Nevertheless, despite this fateful warning from the CIA, no actions were taken to warn the public , to enhance airline and airport security or follow up on the memo.

The Bush administration was pre-occupied with a programme known as "ballistic missile defence". The head of U.S. national security at the time- Condilezza Rice- an expert on Russia- was more interested in what the Russians were doing than in what some shadowy group of terrorists was doing.

Bin Laden and his associates were well aware of this, as was most of the American political establishment- including the American national media. No alarm bells rang, however and consequently, bin Laden’s group pushed ahead with its clandestine plan. He knew that American intelligence authorities were watching his people but he seemed confident the Bush administration would not take any action.

Bin Laden knew the American President and his administration very well. In fact he had worked with the CIA in Afghanistan against the Soviet occupation of that country.

Hundreds of other Islamic extremists like bin Laden were imported into Afghanistan from a variety of Muslim countries. They were supplied with money and arms; they were trained and advised by American agents.

It wasn’t the Taliban who created al Quaeda; al Quaeda was nudged into existence by the financial and strategic military assistance provided to a number extremists by the United States itself. The purpose of that assistance was to undermine the Soviet/Russian occupation of Afghanistan, by funding an insurgency against the Soviet military occupiers. It was widely feared by U.S. petroleum interests- and therefore the oil-conscious U.S. government- that Russia would team up with Pakistan to control the piping of natural gas from the Caucasus- across Afghanistan and thence to world markets.

***(It should be noted that Condi Rice was a director of Chevron Corporation, which had invested billions in the oilfields of the former Soviet state, Khazakhstan and stood to profit from an Afghan pipeline).***

The development of al Quaeda was helped along by the policies of a series of U.S. residents, including Carter, Reagan, the first President Bush and yes- Bill Clinton. But none of those leaders, and certainly not the younger Bush ever took the warnings about al Quaeda seriously. None of them ever dreamed that their diabolical terror baby would mature to the point where parental America itself would be attacked by it.

That arrogant, prideful attitude accounts for why the CIA memo of August 2001, which warned about an al Quaeda attack, was never taken too too seriously by any of the giant brains in Washington D.C.

But the outrageous ignorance and inaction goes back much further than August of that year.

Back in 1999, under the Clinton presidency, The Federal Research Division provided Clinton officials with information in a report that was also available to Bush and Rice. Former CIA Deputy Director John Gannon, who was chairman of the National Intelligence Council when that report was written, said "officials long have known a suicide hijacking was a real threat". They knew that bin Laden’s people were training as pilots in the United States.

The Report pointed to suicide hijacking as one possible method of attack, yet no action was taken to warn the public or safeguard U.S. airlines against that possibility.

The significance of this lack action by U.S. authorities, in the face of information, which had been gathered by the CIA and FBI, was not lost on bin Laden.

In fact, it enabled him to proceed with his plans and in the end to actually carry out his intricately orchestrated attacks against the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.

In one instant, on September 11th, 2001, bin Laden became a legendary hero to every Middle East extremist who loathed and detested the indefensible American policies in the region and the pre-occupation with supporting Israel at the expense of the Palestinians.

Bin Laden was way ahead of the curve.

He anticipated the American attack against Afghanistan and knew that the Taliban would take the heat for al Quaeda’s actions. He had prepared his next step even before 9/11.

In order to perpetuate his legend, he knew that he must never be captured.

President Bush played into his hands by launching the invasion of Iraq, which distracted attention away from himself and his group.

So shortly after the "successful" attacks in New York and Washington, bin Laden did something that would give him permanent martyr status.

• LITTLE-KNOWN FACT: In a solemn and drawn-out ceremony in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan, bin Laden underwent a self-directed, "tactical suicide". His body was buried deep in the mountainous region and of course he has never been seen since.

The above "fact" may be a figment of my over-heated imagination on this subject, but I’m willing to give odds that it’s actually true.