Re:I keep hearing this "french" theory of the Embassy Bombings. Those attacks had Osama written all over them.
Do you have any evidence? I keep telling you again and again and again: this "bin Laden" track is both ludicrous and poorly fabricated.... Here's my analysis:
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And keep in mind the first clue that got me thinking about bin Laden as a "crisis-fall-guy" to allow the U.S. a vigorous retaliation (in Afghanistan and Sudan):
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Excerpt:
U.S. Company Signs Afghan Telecom Contract
[KABUL--Reuters] A U.S. telecommunications company signed an agreement with Afghanistan's Taleban movement government on Wednesday to install a communication network across the war-torn country, a company official said.
The project would cost more than $240 million and was expected to be completed within three years, Telephone System International (TSI) deputy head Gary Brishinsky told Reuters.
He said the New Jersey-based TSI would provide 80 percent and the Afghan government 20 percent investment for the project, which would be exempted from tax for eight years and would be owned by Afghanistan after 15 years.
The agreement, providing for the biggest foreign investment in Afghanistan after about two decades of civil war, comes at a time when anti-American sentiment is high among Afghans after the August 20 U.S. missile attack on suspected terrorist camps in the eastern Khost area of country.
Brishinsky said the network would be a sophisticated wireless system covering whole of Afghanistan and linking the country to the rest of the world with advanced and standard telecommunication services, including the Internet.
He said TSI had set up telephone networks in African countries and had a good experience in the field.
Helicopters would be chartered to install phone towers on mountains and carry equipment within Afghanistan because of bad war-damaged roads, he said.
Referring to the U.S. State Department advice to Americans against travelling to Afghanistan, he said he felt more secure and safe in Afghanistan than in New York city.
He said he hoped to move to Kabul with his family within a few months and that his project would succeed despite the anti-U.S. feeling in the country.
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TSI, a US-based telecom outfit, was reported to have invested over $190 MILLION in Afghanistan a couple of days after US Tomahawks hit bin Laden's alleged den in Northern Afghanistan..... It just doesn't make sense!
These bombings occurred less than 6 months after President Bill Clinton ended his watershed tour in Central Africa --ie France's traditional turf. Clinton wanted to change the disastrous status quo in Central Africa, he thought that it would be a child's play for the U.S. to displace France in the region but he underestimated the powerful vested interests that might collude to oppose such a dramatic geopolitical shift. Israel for one, allied with France and I suspect that former CIA chief, double-agent Deutch turned a blind eye on France's intelligence shenanigans in Eastern Africa in 1996-1998. The Carlos snatch helped France and Israel to cooperate --especially with Likud's hawks in charge (Netanyahu, Sharon, etc.)
Moreover, remember that the FBI traced the explosives back to the Comoros archipelago --another French pad in the region....
Finally, one has to raise the "motive" question: who has the greatest interest in hampering the U.S. advance in Central Africa? Or, to ask it the other way around: what would Islam gain in a random massacre of 200+ Muslim passers-by (both Kenya and Tanzania host a sizable Muslim minority)? If bin Laden were ever to hit some Yankee interest abroad, he would likely go for Egypt, Indonesia, or.... Saudi Arabia.
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