9/11 Report Detailed Possible Associations Between United Arab Emirates & Bin Laden
The Sept. 11 commission's report released last year also raised concerns UAE officials were directly associating with bin Laden as recently as 1999.
The report states U.S. intelligence believed that bin Laden was visiting an area in the Afghan desert in February 1999 near a hunting camp used by UAE officials, and that the U.S. military planned a missile strike.
Intelligence from local tribal sources indicated ``bin Laden regularly went from his adjacent camp to the larger camp where he visited the Emiratis,'' the report said.
``National technical intelligence confirmed the location and description of the larger camp and showed the nearby presence of an official aircraft of the United Arab Emirates. But the location of bin Laden's quarters could not be pinned down so precisely,'' the report said.
The missile attack was never launched, and bin Laden moved on, the report said.
A month later, top White House counterterrorism official Richard Clarke ``called a UAE official to express his concerns about possible associations between Emirati officials and bin Laden,'' the report said.FULL STORY at
Dubai Ports World, Al Qaeda and the UAE Royal Family
It has come to my attention that there exists a direct link between the royal family of the United Arab Emirates, Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. This information comes from a March 25, 2004 report from the India-based rediff.com which reported on the verbal testimony given before the 9/11 Commission by former DIRCIA George Tenet. This has not yet been given the full attention it deserves, and in light of this would be reason enough to immediately halt all negotiations for Dubai Ports World to gain control of eight critical US port facilities.
I’ll make this short and to the point. Director Tenet testified on March 24, 2004 that a mission targeting Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan was aborted because had the mission proceeded half of the royal family of the UAE would have been wiped out.
Here is the relevant excerpt of that report:
UAE royals, bin Laden's saviours
March 25, 2004 12:04 IST
The Central Intelligence Agency did not target Al Qaeda chief Osama bin laden once as he had the royal family of the United Arab Emirates with him in Afghanistan, the agency's director, George Tenet, told the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States on Thursday.
Had the CIA targeted bin Laden, half the royal family would have been wiped out as well, he said.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/mar/25osama.htm
Director Tenet went on in his testimony to state that U.S. Predator drone unmaned aircraft flew their first mission armed with Hellfire missiles, with the permission of the “host nation” (most likely Pakistan), on October 7, 2001.
Logically the conclusion could be drawn that a large portion of the royal family of the United Arab Emirates was with Osama bin Laden when he was targeted in Afghanistan during the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001.
These are America’s allies?
The questions which must now be openly answered by the Bush Administration are patently obvious. Exactly how much due process did the US government engage in concluding that the UAE deserved to be rewarded as an American ally in the Global War on Terrorism? When did the Islamist UAE royals switch sides in this war, and notwithstanding the Islamic practice of al-Taqiyya (dissimulation), where are the American people to believe their loyalties lie today?