9/11-kommisjonens rapport om al Qaida og narkohandel: Godt dokumentert forvirrende

KEAN-KOMMISJONEN om al Qaida, bin Laden og narkohandel:

While the drug trade was a source of income for the Taliban, it did not serve the same purpose for al Qaeda, and there is no reliable evidence that Bin Laden was involved in or made his money through drug trafficking. (s. 171)

http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf

4. oktober 2001 offentliggjorde 10 Downingstreet “The Powell/Blair White Paper” (som legitimerte invasjonen av Afghanistan, men som ikke “purport to provide a prosecutable case against Usama Bin Laden in a court of law.”) hvor følgende kan leses:

• “Usama Bin Laden and Al Qaida have been based in Afghanistan since 1996, but have a network of operations throughout the world. The network includes training camps, warehouses, communication facilities and commercial operations able to raise significant sums of money to support its activity. That activity includes substantial exploitation of the illegal drugs trade from Afghanistan.

• Usama Bin Laden’s Al Qaida and the Taleban régime have a close and mutually dependent alliance. Usama Bin Laden and Al Qaida provide the Taleban régime with material, financial and military support. They jointly exploit the drugs trade. The Taleban régime allows Bin Laden to operate his terrorist training camps and activities from Afghanistan, protects him from attacks from outside, and protects the drugs stockpiles. …” (Uthevelse tilføyet)

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/linkscopy/page3554.html

Powell/Blair-dossieret utgjør altså “no reliable evidence” ifølge Kean-kommisjonen.

Noen som ser et problem her?

Mer “upålitelig bevis”:

• US ’seizes al-Qaeda drugs ship’ (BBC)

  A boat containing drugs possibly linked to al-Qaeda has been seized in the Gulf, the US military says.

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  Twelve people on board were detained after it was found to be carrying almost two tons of hashish valued at up to $10m, a Centcom statement said.

  There were “clear ties” between the shipment and al-Qaeda, it added.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3335183.stm

• Afghan/Pakistani Drug Connections

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&financing_of_al-qaeda:_a_more_detailed_look=drugs

• CIA Director George Tenet tells a Senate committee in open session that (…) “There is ample evidence that Islamic extremists such as Osama bin Laden use profits from the drug trade to support their terror campaign.” (Uthevelse tilføyet)

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a020200furtherblows#a020200furtherblows

Om kildene over holder vann, er det forunderlig at 9/11-kommisjonen flagrant omgår bevis for koblingen mellom bin Laden og narkohandel.

Om de ikke holder vann, har vi behov for en annen debatt - som vi må ta uansett.

Man trenger ikke være konspirasjonsteoretiker for å mene det.

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En informativ artikkel av Peter Dale Scott:

Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, the Northern Alliance, and drug-trafficking
URL:
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/q3.html

Five Years for Powell — and VIPS

Ray McGovern , Consortiumnews.com: Five Years for Powell — and VIPS

Colin Powell’s deceptive speech to the United Nations five years ago marked the start of an extraordinary effort by former U.S. intelligence analysts — in the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity — to warn the nation of the dangers of politicized intel. VIPS founder Ray McGovern has mixed feelings about this fifth anniversary.

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Noen få minutter med ubetalelig McGovern-moro:

Ray McGovern Confronts Rumsfeld About His LIES…

Colin Powell’s Fateful Lies

Robert, Sam & Nat Parry, Consortiumnews.com: Colin Powell’s Fateful Lies

Five years ago, the final path to war in Iraq was paved with lies from then-Secretary of State Colin Powell. This excerpt from Neck Deep examines the oratorical techniques that Powell used to sell his false United Nations testimony as truth.

Editor’s Note: Five years ago, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell went before the United Nations Security Council – and the world – to make a case for war that wasn’t true. He falsely claimed that Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction.

The importance of Powell’s speech cannot be overstated. It effectively sealed the deal for the U.S. invasion of Iraq, at least as far as the American news media and opinion leaders were concerned.

After Powell’s speech, Consortiumnews.com was one of the few news outlets that wasn’t onboard. We reprised an earlier series about Powell’s real history as a rank opportunist, under the title “Trust Colin Powell?” However, many people did trust Colin Powell and the results have been catastrophic.

On this fifth anniversary of Powell’s speech, we are publishing an excerpt about his testimony from the book, Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush. The book also contains a chapter on the real history of Colin Powell, but this excerpt concentrates on his fateful speech:

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Sannheten om Colin Powell

Få moderne usamerikanere har nytt bedre presseoppslag enn Colin Powell, hvilket gjorde ham til det perfekte valg når det kom til å selge Irak-krigen. Men det finnes en mørkere og mer problemfylt side ved Powells historie som usamerikanerene (og resten av verden) burde hatt kjennskap til. I den nye boken Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush beskrives den virkelige Colin Powell - den ambisiøse militærbyråkraten som fulgte ordre og satte egne karriereinteresser først. Et utdrag fra Neck Deep omhandlende Powells ikke-så-kjente historie finnes ved å følge lenken nedenfor.

The Truth about Colin Powell av Robert Parry, Sam Parry og Nat Parry, Consortiumnews.com, 28. november, 2007.

Colin avholder eventyrstund for FNs Sikkerhetsråd…

Se jeg lyver
lyver så det renner
Alt hva jeg sier
er tøv og tøys og tull

… og hundretusner - om ikke en million og litt til - irakere dør.

Mer om Colin Powell finnes i dette arkivet: Behind Colin Powell’s Legend