I obviously found the above video on Youtube. It is not the History Channel story I am referring to in my blog below. It is a bit more informative and I believe taken from the documentary, 9/11-Press for Truth. Watch the whole thing for free on the sidebar.
The History channel had a pretty good show on last night called, "Targeted-Osama bin Laden." I wasn't sure what to expect at first. The History channel (joint venture owned by Hearst, Disney, & NBC) is usually pretty good at being accurate. They do tend to leave out details that may be incriminating to those in power. I was very interested to see how much depth they would go into on the subject of Osama bin Laden (OBL) and his involvement with 9/11 but more importantly, his involvement with the CIA. The show turned out pretty much as I expected but did have a few surprises.
No surprise, the show concluded with a "dramatization," (i.e., a long-bearded actor with an AK47 on his back, riding a horse through the mountains) of OBL still prowling the mountains somewhere in Pakistan or Afghanistan. The message being that, "He is still out there! Plotting to attack the USA! Keep the fear alive!" Of course they failed to mention that the CIA disbanded the unit, known as Alec Station that had been charged with hunting down OBL back in 2006. I mean, I'm sure the timing of this has nothing to do with the decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, right? So, some propaganda as usual. That is to be expected.
But, I like watching the military & history channel because even if the powers that want these shows aired have their own agenda, sometimes somebody in the editing room slips something in there that they probably weren't supposed to. Like the fact that UNOCAL wanted a trans-Afghan pipeline back in 1996. I've never heard this pipeline mentioned on any regular TV before this special. The show also conceded the fact that the Bush family and Bin Ladens have been business partners for years prior to 9/11. The show also concedes that members of the bin Laden family and Suadi royals were secretly flown out of the U.S. during the travel ban immediately after 9/11. Instead of questioning the family about the where-abouts of their "rogue" family member, the Bush administration helped them escape. This fact was denied for years. More likely though, the special was intended to also answer questions (i.e., debunk or mislead) that have been rising to the surface. Just the fact that they have to talk about topics such as, how many times we (i.e., CIA, FBI, ISI or other intelligence services) knew exactly where OBL was but allowed him to escape is a victory for those of us that want the full truth exposed. More truth is being recognized and conceded by the major media. Eight years after, they are being forced to answer new questions many of us have been asking since 9/11. This is a small victory.
Who knows what they will fess up to in another eight years? This often leads me to ask the inevitable follow up question to that which is, "will anyone still even care?" Does anyone now? I mean, if documents were leaked right now that proved that the JFK assassination was a CIA plot, what would happen? I think most people in this country would kinda shrug their shoulders and accept it as just another one of those crazy things that happens sometimes and not give it another thought. But, I digress.
One question I have been wondering is, exactly when did OBL stop working for the CIA? It is well documented that the CIA funded and supplied the Mujaheddin fighters of Afghanistan during their war with the Soviets. The CIA and their Pakistani counterparts, ISI (Inter Service Intelligence) helped money and weapons flow to the rebels (Mujaheddin) fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan. The main financier for the Mujaheddin was OBL. Our tax dollars passed from us to the CIA to the ISI to Osama. The ISI allowed him and his fighters to operate out of Pakistan. OBL then built bases inside Pakistan and Afghanistan to train his fighters. All of this is well documented and fully established. The History channel show gives the usual answer to my question, which to paraphrase goes something like: OBL became angry when the US sent it's "infidel" troops onto Saudi soil to defend Saudi Arabia from Iraq during desert shield in 1990.
We are left to conclude that he severed his ties to the CIA at this point and no longer worked for the people of America and had now become their enemy. More importantly, we are left to conclude that this man, OBL that was on the CIA payroll had now declared himself an enemy of the USA and the CIA completely lost track of him and had no idea he might be plotting against America.
The show concedes that this too was far from the case, that their was a continual man-hunt of some sort on for him the entire time but that he would miraculously manage to escape at the last second. Always getting a tip from somewhere of his imminent capture. They did admit that when we had him "surrounded" in the mountains of Tora Bora we sent less than 100 special operatives and some CIA-paid Afghanis to hunt him down. They neglect to mention that we left the back door open for him to escape. The Pakistani border was supposed to be covered by Pakistanis.
The show concludes that we were double-crossed by an Al-Qaeda agent and they allowed him to escape into Pakistan. Why in the world would we think that the Pakistanis would block him when we knew that they had no control over the region and in fact allowed the Taliban to operate out of the mountains there? They also made no mention of the fact that we had over 1000 Marines and 1000, 10th Mountain Division troops, all of whom who had been trained and deployed for just such a battle, available to help in the capture but that somewhere high up in the command system (i.e., Rumsfeld) this idea was nixed. The last administration allowed OBL to escape. Why?
Here is what John Kerry recently (Dec.1, 2009) said in the LA Times about what happened at Tora Bora. Kerry corroborates what I am unable to document.* This letter has also been blocked at a few sights. No coincidence that the Wall Street Journal published it's own editorial refuting Kerry's claims as nothing but cover for Obama's build up of more troops in Afghanistan. They don't bother to ask why the troops were not used in the first place.
*Note: While trying to link to the stories I knew existed about troop availability at Tora Bora, I was unable to open any of them. Usually greeted with Error 404 (meaning the story is no longer there). Why not? Here's an example- Tora Bora Revisited: How We Failed To Get Bin Laden And Why It ... www.globalsecurity.org/military/.../091130_tora-bora_ubl-3.htm
Here's a nice piece I did find about the subject.
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