Judge..........
and any others who believe the official story........
Forget about everything being discussed here and be honest with me about one simple question........
Lets have your honest answers.........no name calling........no nothing........all I am asking (politely) is your opinion ON THIS QUESTION.........
With all the news about what was happening on 911 and being broadcast by all the national media that day........
WHY WAS IT NEVER MENTIONED ABOUT THE CLOSE TIES THE BUSHS AND BIN LADENS HAD IN THEIR BUSINESS DEALINGS ???(on 911)
Very simple and straightforward.........
I mean is it not news worthy and important if someone commited a criminal act against my city and we had been in business dealings in the past this info would not be in the headlines?????
Why did I have to find out about this info from other sources and not the major networks........I feel like they were trying to hide info from the american public..........
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I will not name call and respond.
I have read where that has been mentioned in articles.
But now that you have said it, show us the facts.
Show us the proof you have that the connection to Bush and Bin Laden family existed.
Unfortunately there are no facts that prove this.
Yeh Bin Ladens family left the US in a hurry after 911 but it was more likely to not be involved in a world covered hostage crisis.
Scott, you are apparently uninformed on this matter. That does not mean that you are a bad guy, simply that you are unfaliliar with the history,
Osama Bin Laden, the Saudi millionaire-turned-renegade charged with international terrorism, bears a striking similarity to the late Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. The resemblance is more than just facial. Like Bhindranwale, Bin Laden was created by the very forces which are now seeking to destroy him. Experts are almost unanimous in saying that bin Laden is a creature of a US foreign policy which recklessly fed and nurtured him and his Islamic warriors with million of dollars worth of money and arms to fight the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan. The money was funnelled largely through Pakistan's maverick Inter-Services Intelligence. Even at that time, Bin Laden and his holy warriors had made it clear that the US was as much anathema to them as the communists.
The CIA then tried to destroy the same camps it helped set up, Robert Fisk, a British writer who covered the region and who met bin Laden at his camp during this time, stated in an interview on National Public Radio. Fisk said Bin Laden did not appear to be such a fearsome international terrorist that the US was making him out to be. On the contrary, he was isolated, lonely, virtually unlistened to, and was constantly trying to know what was happening in other parts of the world.
US officials have made Bin Laden out to be a terrorist mastermind operating out of a high-tech cave filled with satellite phones and other gizmos overseeing a worldwide network of extremist organisations. Bin Laden is said to be around 43 years old. Born in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, he is the youngest son of Mohammed bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi who founded the Bin Laden Group, a construction firm that thrived on Saudi government contracts. Osama Bin Laden is said to have inherited some $300 million from his father. In his mid-20s he left Saudi Arabia for Afghanistan to fight in the so-called Jihad against the Soviet forces in Afghanistan. Several accounts have it that he was cultivated by the CIA, which helped him set up camps in and around Khost, the same town now bombed by US forces.
After the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia to work in his father's construction business. But he soon began to oppose the Saudi royal family, especially after the Gulf War when US troops landed in Saudi Arabia and remained there. He launched a local movement to force US troops out of the country, railing against the defilement of the Muslim holy places of Mecca and Medina.
But he was thrown out of the country by the rulers and was virtually disowned by his family. He relocated to Sudan in 1991 and resumed his construction operations there. Sudanese officials said they expelled him in 1996 under US pressure after Washington suspected him to be indulging in terrorist activities.
US officials think he and his followers were involved in the bombing of US training facility in Riyadh in 1995 which killed seven people (including two Indians) and the Khobar Towers bombing in 1996 which killed 19 US servicemen.
Bin Laden relocated to Afghanistan in 1996 and has been on the US terrorism watchlist since. Early in 1998, the US ambassador to UN Bill Richardson contacted the Afghan Taliban rulers to ask for bin Laden but was reportedly turned down. In several interviews during this time, bin Laden openly issued threats to the US, calling for a holy war to evict the infidels from Saudi Arabia. In February of 1998, he is said to have issued a fatwaurging holy Islamic warriors to kill Americans everywhere, whether military or civilian. In June of the same year, he is said to have presided over a conclave of extremist leaders from across the world in Peshawar under the umbrella of the Islamic Front, which endorsed the fatwaand decided upon an undisclosed course of action.
Maverick, it is indeed newsworthy and it is a travesty that the details have not been made more public. There is no question that the Bush and Bin Laden families have long standing business ties. Their relationship is a matter of public record.
However, Osama was disowned by his family many years before the 9/11 tragedy and there has never been any connection between the Al Quida leader and our current president or his father.
Please understand that there are few Americans who have a lesser opinion of George W. Bush's presidency than I do. Regardless of that opinion, I have never seen any credible evidence that would lead any rational person to believe that President Bush was in any way implicated in the events of 9/11.
It is important to me that I am very clear on this topic. I emphatically believe that the Bush family's partnerships with the Bin Ladens from the '70's had absolutely nothing to do with Al Quiada's attack on our country.
