Here's some interesting excerpts relative to security and 9/11's relatonship to OBL and the Taliban:
>>>Most of the victims of the September 11 attack seemed tragically random -- they were just going to work. Not John O'Neill. Until last August, he'd been the FBI's top expert on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, a lead investigator of the USS Cole and African embassy bombings. Leaving the Bureau in frustration, he'd taken a job he thought of as retirement: World Trade Center security chief. But when he died it became clear: His own life contained as many mysteries as his enemy's.<<<
>>>But if you lean to the left, like the French authors Guillaume Dasquié and Jean-Charles Brisard, who feature a July interview with O'Neill in their new book, Ben Laden, La Vérité Interdite, you've outed O'Neill as a sort of smoking gun -- a man who they say all but confirmed in his final months that George W. Bush's oil-industry-bred administration was so worried about alienating Saudi Arabia that it decided to negotiate with the Taliban rather than go after it. Before September 11, they argue, the United States' primary goal was to build a pipeline in Central Asia -- tapping oilfields in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan, through Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Indian Ocean.<<<
>>>O'Neill complained about the inability of U.S. diplomacy to obtain anything from King Fahd. He told the Frenchman that "every answer, every key to dismantling the Osama bin Laden organizations are in Saudi Arabia."<<<
newyorkmetro.com
Of course, we all know how cozy the Bush family has been with Saudi Arabia:
cbc.ca
And, below, let's check in on another former FBI agent who comments about the Bush Administration negotiating with the Taliban over the Afghanistan pipeline, this to save Enron's failing investment of its gas plant in India.
john-loftus.com
Hmmm. I wonder why it's former FBI agents who are the ones commenting on the pipeline.
Oh, well.
Anyway, it's still nice here in America. After all, the GOPwingers got the White House, both houses of Congress and most of the Judiciary. I mean why complain. Let's all just stay home, after a long day of both parents working, and watch Survivor, or something like it, on television. Of course, to help make the rich man richer and keep the water treading, both parents can work on Saturday also, under new overtime GOP-inspired regulations. Of course, in order to be a great GOPwinger you just gotta go to church on Sunday. So if you do it all right in America, you get a half a day to live your own thoughts. Now that ain't half bad, is it--lol? |
