The 'Blue Dress' of 9/11

[Annie]

http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2006/10/911-blue-dress.html

Sunday, October 01, 2006
The 9/11 'blue dress'

The Times of London today reported today on a video of two of the 9/11 hijackers and their Jan. 8, 2000, audience with Osama bin Laden. 10 days after the meeting, the two men -- middle-class men -- Ziad Jarrah and Mohammed Atta -- gave their suicide wills to a camera, a kamikaze pact that awaited their plot's final execution 20 months later.

The Times has part of the tape at its Web site. It said of the tape:

"It opens with 100 or so Al-Qaeda hardcore members sitting on the ground in the open air, obviously expecting something to happen. Among them are several children.

"A very tall man surrounded by three armed bodyguards arrives in a sedate, presidential manner. It is Bin Laden, dressed in white from head to toe with an all-enveloping, light brown robe. He looks serene as he makes his way to a makeshift podium and beings to speak into a microphone.

"The date recorded on this section of the video is January 8, 2000. That makes the occasion Eid al Fitr, the end of Ramadan.

"There are a few recognisable faces among the audience, including Ramzi Binalshibh, Atta’s Hamburg flatmate who was later to become the co-ordinator of the September 11 attacks. And among the bodyguards is Abu Jandal, who was the only one with the authority to put two bullets in Bin Laden’s head if he was about to fall into enemy hands."​

Bush was more than a year away from the presidency.

The tape apparently was vetted carefully by the Times. It said:

"American intelligence knew all about Tarnak Farm. According to the 9/11 Commission Report, 'CIA officers were able to map the entire site, identifying the houses that belonged to Bin Laden’s wives and the one where he himself was most likely to sleep'.

"Less than two years before the video was recorded, the CIA had a plan to work closely with some of the local tribes to grab Bin Laden as he slept. It was a clear-cut, well rehearsed 'perfect operation', according to Michael Scheuer, who ran the CIA Bin Laden unit at the time. But it was never executed and there is still controversy in America about who cancelled it."
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This tape, a part of which is at the Times Web site, is the blue dress to Bill Clinton's outburst last week. We know Clinton lies any time he wags that finger.

But this goes beyond politics. This goes to espionage and the refusal of presidents to use the intel tools that they have to fight this as a war.

It also undermines the whole idea that Western policies "create" terrorists as if we're the cause of all the worl'd woes. Reported the Times:

"Distinctively the black sheep of the whole lot — plotters and hijackers — Atta and Jarrah came from the two most liberal Arab countries, both from the heart of their respective communities, both from middle-class families, both intelligent, pleasant and trusted wherever they went, and both with impressive educational track records. Jarrah went to a Christian school in Beirut; Atta advanced his English at The American University in Cairo.

"Then they both had ambitions beyond what they thought their countries could offer. They both went to Germany; Atta in 1992 to end up preparing a masters degree in city planning; and Jarrah in 1996 to end up preparing his in aeronautical engineering.

"Again, they both could not cease to impress. So much so that Professor Dittmar Machule, who taught Atta at the Technical University in Harburg, a quiet suburb of Hamburg, still cannot understand what happened to the brilliant student he used to pick to fill in for him in seminars whenever he was busy.
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We are dealing with madmen, caught up inj the psycho-drama of a religious sect funded by the multi-millionaire spawn of a Saudi construction magnate.

The crazy thing is, had we picked them up on Jan. 8, 2000, and thrown them in jail, people would have said they are insane and begged for mercy toward them.

The tape and the report come a weekend after Bill Clinton wagged his finger and said he tried to get that man, that Osama bin Laden. This tape is a stained blue dress to that lie.

The tape also shows the importance of allowing the military to capture detainees, interrogate them and keep them locked up. These men act as moles for years on end. There was a 20-month gap between the time Jarrah and Atta met with bin Laden and the time they executed their plan. It also shows the merit for keeping Johnny Walker Lindh, the American Taliban, locked up for as long as possible. He had met bin Laden. Who knows what awful, wicked plan Lindh was involved in.

posted by DonSurber | 10/01/2006 03:33:00 PM

 

[red states rule]

Libs will dismiss it as a Karl Rove production and say it was filmed at Haliburtion studios

 

[Annie]

Libs will dismiss it as a Karl Rove production and say it was filmed at Haliburtion studios

So?

 

[NATO AIR]

:thumbdown: I hated Clinton pulled his BS, but he and those still going after him are just wasting our time. Bin Laden laughs while we give our attention to a has-been from a pig farm.

 

[dilloduck]

:thumbdown: I hated Clinton pulled his BS, but he and those still going after him are just wasting our time. Bin Laden laughs while we give our attention to a has-been from a pig farm.

Like him or not, Limbaugh said in 1999 that Clinton would be unable to stay out of the limelight after he left the presidency. The guy pathologically NEEDS attention much like a Hollywood star.

 

[glockmail]

..[Clinton] pathologically NEEDS attention much like a Hollywood star.

He's also a pathological liar.

 

[dilloduck]

He's also a pathological liar.

I think Rush said that several times too but his fans don't care.