Bin Laden Wealth Not Force Behind Attacks

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON -- Recent investigations into al-Qaida, including by the Sept. 11 commission, have substantially altered the commonly held view that Osama bin Laden's inheritance and massive fortune are being used to finance his international terror operations.

While bin Laden isn't poor, he's not worth the $300 million once believed. Nor is he thought to be directly financing his terror group with his personal wealth or a network of businesses in Sudan, where he operated from 1991 to 1996.

"There has been a revision of collective thinking," said Kenneth Katzman, a Congressional Research Service expert who has studied terror groups. "The new thinking is that bin Laden's fortune didn't really enter into al-Qaida that much, or wasn't the driving force in al-Qaida."

The report from the Sept. 11 commission concluded that al-Qaida has many financing avenues and could easily find new sources, particularly given the attack's price tag of just $400,000 to $500,000 over two years.


http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-bin-ladens-wealth,0,6097665.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

[Catfight]

1. Let me guess..the new bad guys are the Iranians? Bush=warmonger!

[slojim240]

11. Osam can't be guilty because we can't find him.

We need a stationary target, one probably not guilty will do.

[jmcgowanjm]

2. Ruppert speaks at the Commonwealth(SFElites) Club

I WILL NAME RICHARD CHENEY AS THE PRIME SUSPECT IN THE MASS
MURDERS OF 9/11 AND WILL ESTABLISH THAT, NOT ONLY WAS HE A
PLANNER IN THE ATTACKS, BUT ALSO THAT ON THE DAY OF THE
ATTACKS HE WAS RUNNING A COMPLETELY SEPARATE COMMAND,
CONTROL AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM WHICH WAS SUPERCEDING
ANY ORDERS BEING ISSUED BY THE NMCC, OR THE WHITE HOUSE
SITUATION ROOM. TO ACCOMPLISH THAT END HE RELIED ON A
REDUNDANT AND SUPERIOR COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM MAINTAINED
BY THE US SECRET SERVICE IN OR NEAR THE PRESIDENTIAL
EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER – THE BUNKER TO WHICH HE AND
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR CONDOLEEZZA RICE WERE REPORTEDLY
“RUSHED” AFTER FLIGHT 175 STRUCK THE WTC’S SOUTH TOWER. I WILL
DEMONSTRATE THAT THE SECRET SERVICE POSSESSED RADAR
SCREENS WHICH GAVE THEM, AND THE VICE PRESIDENT, WHOSE SIDE
THE NEVER LEFT, WITH REAL-TIME INFORMATION AS GOOD AS OR
BETTER THAN THAT AVAILABLE TO THE PENTAGON;

Definitely serious charges,

http://fromthewilderness.com/PDF/Commonwealth.pdf

[highnooner]

5. According to Ruppert

It is all about oil. He uses the Peak Oil issue as the crux of his argument that Cheney and the American/British energy companies are behind 9/11 and the drumbeats to war.

[jmcgowanjm]

13. It is all about oil. Florida is about to find this out.

As in, I would like to evacuate, but I can't find any gas.

There is only one way in. And FLA is about 1000 miles
long.

[skypilot]

3. Well, this would put yet ANOTHER big hole...

...in the official story of Sept.11.

[htuttle]

4. We know at least $100K of it came from Pakistan

From Pakistan's ISI Chief Mahmoud Ahmed ==> Omar Sheikh ==> Mohammed Atta.


:shrug:

[seventhson]

6. And doesn't the ISI get its money from Bush and Cheney, Carlyle, Dyncorp

and Halliburton as well as the Bush NSA and DIA?

Jesus. This WAS an inside job.

Reichstag Fire Goebbel's called this type of acxtion an "Electoral Bomb" (Konrad Heiden, History of National Socialism)

[BJ]

7. Why are there no references to the Saudi Royals?

Nor is there mention of Wahabist clerics or the cabal who used to run BCCI?

For all we know al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden is on Reichsfuhrer Karl Rove's payroll.

[zbdent]

8. Uh, oh, maybe he should petition W for a tax break!

heh, heh, heh.

[daleo]

9. Shifting the spotlight from Bin Laden?

This could be to forestall criticism of Bush over the fact that Bin Laden hasn't been captured or killed (as far as we know). If Bin Laden didn't bankroll it, then he isn't really that important, will be phase 1 of the new story. I think we will hear soon that he is mostly symbolic, and didn't really plan the attacks - that will be phase 2. But it will be done carefully, so as to not make the whole previous emphasis on Bin Laden look too misguided.

Phase 3 may be whipping up war fever against Iran.

[librechik]

10. Who?

[GRClarkesq]

12. I have seen other reports that suggest

OBL used a significant part of his savings to pay rent to the Taliban during his stay in Afghanistan.