9/11 Truth: Who Is Osama Bin Laden?

• 9/11 Truth: Who Is Osama Bin Laden? 
  by Prof Michel Chossudovsky, http://www.globalresearch.ca/
  The article below entitled Who is Osama bin Laden? was drafted twelve years ago on September 11, 2001.
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  I started writing on the evening of September 11, late into the night, going through piles of research notes, which I had previously collected on the history of Al Qaeda.  It was first  published on the Global Research website on the evening of September 12, 2001.
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  From the outset, the objective was to use 9/11 as a pretext for launching the first phase of the Middle East War Central Asian war, which consisted in the bombing and occupation of Afghanistan.
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  Within hours of the attacks, Osama bin Laden was identified without evidence as the architect of 9/11. On the following day, the “global war on terrorism” had been launched. The media disinformation campaign went into full gear.
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  Also on September 12, less than 24 hours after the attacks, NATO invoked for the first time in its history “Article 5 of the Washington Treaty – its collective defense clause” declaring the 9/11 attacks on  the World Trade Center (WTC) and the Pentagon “to be an attack against all NATO members.” Implied in this statement was that Afghanistan as a nation state had attacked the United States, a totally absurd proposition.
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  What happened subsequently, with the invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya is already part of history.
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  Syria and Iran constitute the next phase of the US administration’s military road map.
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  Al Qaeda is a terrorist construct, and “intelligence asset” financed, trained and supported covertly by the CIA.
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  “Jihadist” mercenaries continue to be recruited by the US and its allies.  Al Qaeda and its numerous affiliates –including Al Nusrah in Syria– are used as a means to destabilizing sovereign countries under the banner of the “Global War on Terrorism”.
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  9/11 propaganda prevails. The September 11, 2001 attacks continue to be used by the US administration as a pretext and a justification for waging a war without borders.
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  On this twelfth anniversary commemoration of the tragic events of  September 11, 2001, the central issue remains 9/11 Truth as a means to dismantling Washington’s global military agenda, upholding civil liberties and restoring World Peace.
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  Michel Chossudovsky, Montreal, September  10, 2013
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  Who Is Osama Bin Laden?
  by Michel Chossudovsky
  Global Research, September 12, 2001
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  A few hours after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, the Bush administration concluded without supporting evidence, that “Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organisation were prime suspects”. CIA Director George Tenet stated that bin Laden has the capacity to plan “multiple attacks with little or no warning.” Secretary of State Colin Powell called the attacks “an act of war” and President Bush confirmed in an evening televised address to the Nation that he would “make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them”. Former CIA Director James Woolsey pointed his finger at “state sponsorship,” implying the complicity of one or more foreign governments. In the words of former National Security Adviser, Lawrence Eagleburger, “I think we will show when we get attacked like this, we are terrible in our strength and in our retribution.”
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  Meanwhile, parroting official statements, the Western media mantra has approved the launching of “punitive actions” directed against civilian targets in the Middle East. In the words of William Saffire writing in the New York Times: “When we reasonably determine our attackers’ bases and camps, we must pulverize them — minimizing but accepting the risk of collateral damage” — and act overtly or covertly to destabilize terror’s national hosts”.
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  The following text outlines the history of Osama Bin Laden and the links of the Islamic “Jihad” to the formulation of US foreign policy during the Cold War and its aftermath.
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  Prime suspect in the New York and Washington terrorists attacks, branded by the FBI as an “international terrorist” for his role in the African US embassy bombings, Saudi born Osama bin Laden was recruited during the Soviet-Afghan war “ironically under the auspices of the CIA, to fight Soviet invaders”. 1
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