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CIA- Bin Laden Connection
1976
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Due to a trust agreement, drawn shortly after George H. Bush was appointed director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Saudi Sheik Salem M. bin Laden appointed Bath as his business representative in Houston.
"if this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator" George H. Bush (actually GWB)
1981
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George W. Bush oil company partly funded by the principal US representative of Salem Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden's brother. John Cooley reports in Unholy Wars: "By 1981, when CIA chief Casey and his Saudi associates, Kamal Adhan and Prince Turki, were casting around for new sources of secret financing for the Afghan campaign, the bin Laden enterprises were all on a short list of possibly helpful families"
1986
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Afghanistan: Bin Laden brought in engineers from his father's company and heavy construction equipment to build roads and warehouses for the Mujaheddin. Then he helped building a CIA-financed tunnel complex, named Tora Bora, to serve as a major arms storage depot, training facility and medical center for the Mujaheddin, deep under the mountains close to the Pakistan border."
('Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,' 23 September 2001 Sunday, Two Star Edition, pg. A-12)
1992
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Bin Laden begins to set up legitimate businesses in the Sudan, and the Sudanese government supposedly liked this wealthy man who was investing in their country. US intelligence agencies then allege that this was the first terrorist attack involving bin Laden. The CIA get the order to kill Bin Laden and is still trying this.
1994
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According to US intelligence analysts, by January 1994, Osama bin Laden was financing at least three terrorist training camps in North Sudan.
1994-1995
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At the instance of the US and on the orders of Mrs.Benazir Bhutto, then Prime Minister, and Maj.Gen.(retd) Nasirullah Babar, her Interior Minister, he and Lt.Gen.Mohammad Aziz, then Deputy Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), created the Taliban. The US was interested in the Taliban as a possible operational asset against Iran and as the facilitator of oil and gas pipelines from Turkmenistan to Pakistan through Afghanistan planned by UNOCAL, an American company, with high political contacts in Washington DC. Dr.Henry Kissinger was reportedly the political consultant of the UNOCAL.
February 1995
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US authorities named bin Laden and his Saudi brother-in-law, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, among 172 unindicted co-conspirators with the 11 Muslims charged for the World Trade Center bombing and the associated plot to blow up other New York landmarks." ('Jane's Intelligence Review,' 1 October 1995)
June 1995
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Unsuccessful assassination attempt on the life of the President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak. U.S. intelligence sources have cause to believe bin Laden was linked to this action.
November 1995
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Five Americans are killed in the truck bombing of a U.S.-operated Saudi National Guard training center in Riyadh. Bin Laden denies involvement but praises the attack.
May 1996
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The Sudan expels bin Laden because of international pressure by the United States and Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden then moves back to Afghanistan.
June 25th, 1996
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Attack on American barracks at Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia. Osama bin Laden is accused by the U.S. of masterminding that bombing, which killed 19 U.S. airmen and wounded about 500 others
Mid 1996
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The FBI closed their files (marked Secret and coded 199) to investigate two of Osama bin Laden's relatives in Washington and a Muslim organisation, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), with which they were linked.
June 1996
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A large truck bomb devastates the US military residence in Dhahran, killing 19 servicemen. The US military initially linked bin Laden and a Saudi Shiite group to the attack.
1998
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Former President George H.W. Bush travels to Saudi Arabia on behalf of the privately owned Carlyle Group, the 11th largest defense contractor in the U.S. While there he meets privately with the Saudi royal family and the bin Laden family. [Source: Wall Street Journal, Sept. 27, 2001. See also FTW, Vol. IV, No 7 The Best Enemies Money Can Buy
http://www.copvcia.com/members/carlyle.html
Early 1998
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The CIA starts monitoring Bin Laden with the help of 15 Afghan agents. The team, whose code name is still classified, reported daily, pinpointing bin Laden in a specific location.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011223/pl/afghan_cia_1.html
August 7th, 1998
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Two explosions take place at US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The bomb is Nairobi, Kenya kills 213 people, and injure more than 4,500 . The bomb in Dar es Salaam kills 11 and injures 85. The attack is connected to Bin Laden.
October 12th, 1999
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A planned attack on Bin Laden, ordered by President Clinton, was aborted on that day, when Sharif was overthrown in a military coup by General Pervez Musharraf, who halted the proposed covert operation. The Clinton administration had to settle for a UN Security Council resolution that demanded the Taliban turn over bin Laden to "appropriate authorities," but did not require he be handed over to the United States.
March 2000
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CIA director George J. Tenet told the Senate that Osama bin Laden's group (Al Q'aeda) was "embracing the opportunities offered by recent leaps in information technology
August 2000
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The FBI "lost" two suspects on their watch list: Khalid Al-Midhar and Nawaq Alhazm. The CIA was later also investigating on these two persons, officially due to connections of the USS Cole Bombing in 2000. They never revealed until today, why they stopped this investigation. On September 11th, these two names appeared again on the list of the 19 hijackers.
October 2000
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The warship USS Cole is crippled by a suicide bombing in Yemen that killed 17 sailors. Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network later had been linked to the attack, who praised it. The CIA locates Chalid Al-Midhar and Nawaq Alhamzi again and watch them because of the USS Cole attack, but finished the investigation again without any officical explanation.
During 2000
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Former President George H.W. Bush travels again to Saudi Arabia on behalf of the privately owned Carlyle Group, the 11th largest defense contractor in the U.S. While there he meets privately with the Saudi royal family and the bin Laden family. [Source: Wall Street Journal, Sept. 27, 2001. See also FTW, Vol. IV, No 7 The Best Enemies Money Can Buy
http://www.copvcia.com/members/carlyle.html
Feb 13, 2001
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UPI Terrorism Correspondent Richard Sale - while covering a trial of bin Laden's Al Qaeda followers - reports that the National Security Agency has broken bin Laden's encrypted communications. Even if this indicates that bin Laden changed systems in February it does not mesh with the fact that the government insists that the attacks had been planned for years
Juli 4th, 2001
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As long as the possibility of a Afghanistan pipeline deal remained, the White House stalled any further investigation into the activities of Osama bin Laden, authors Brisard and Dasquie write. They report that John O'Neill, deputy director of the FBI, resigned later in protest over this obstruction. O'Neill told them in an interview, "the main obstacles to investigate Islamic terrorism were US oil corporate interests and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it."
July 4-14, 2001:
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Osama bin Laden receives treatments for kidney disease at the American hospital in Dubai and meets with CIA official Larry Stevens who returns to CIA headquarters on July 15th. It is reported, that also Al-Zawahiri and members of Bin Ladens family have visited him.
Late July 2001
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John O'Neill, the Irish-American FBI agent who for years led US investigations into Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network resigned in frustration because the US ambassador to Yemen, Ms Barbara Bodine, forbade O'Neill and his team of so- called Rambos (as the Yemeni authorities called them) from entering Yemen. John O'Neill starts a security job in the World Trade Center and died on September 11th.
September 11th, 2001
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The CIA blames the attack on america on Bin Laden