Pilger says Bush Administration was MOVING BEFORE 9/11/01 TO ACT AGAINST THE TALIBAN!

John Pilger Archives ^ | November 23, 2001 | John Pilger (Bush hater)

[Roscoe Karns]

[snip]

...The twin towers attacks provided Bush's Washington with both a trigger and a remarkable coincidence. Pakistan's former foreign minister Niaz Naik has revealed that he was told by senior American officials in mid-July [2001]that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October. The US secretary of state, Colin Powell, was then travelling in central Asia, already gathering support for an anti-Afghanistan war "coalition".

[snip] Paragraph #14

[WestTexasWend]

Does anybody else recall hearing in the weeks after 9/11 that AQ had attacked after word leaked that the Bush Administration was launching a major crackdown against them before year's end? Was I dreaming? (And it was reported then with a "it's Bush's fault" attitude...)

[marron]

See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/686045/posts

thanks to Shermy

[WestTexasWend]

ah...THANKS! That's exactly what I was looking for...

[Becki]

Bush not doing much of a job reminding people of them.

That's what Condi will do, with the whole world watching.

I don't like it, but the commission would never live up to it's calling and report it.

Becki

[PISANO]

Oh I see. The directive that could have prevented 911, was, in fact, the catalyst for it. Thus... another excursion into WONDERLAND.

[Roscoe Karns]

Can't win with the Bush haters.

[3catsanadog]

I thought the commission was also going to call Bill Clinton to testify. Well???? Where is he?

[cyncooper]

From your link:

Saturday September 22, 2001

Osama bin Laden and the Taliban received threats of possible American military strikes against them two months before the terrorist assaults on New York and Washington, established.

[Vermont Lt]

And this aint going to end in Iraq either. Do you think that the Saudis are tightening the oil grip to just make more money. They are tightening the grip to send a message to Bush not to F&*k with them.

First Afghanistan. Then Iraq. Then Iran. Then Syria. Then the Saudis. Finally, we will have the oil and forward bases for the real enemy. China.

Watcg. Not this year. Perhaps not next year. But its coming. Think Strategically--not emotionally.

[Becki]

I thought the commission was also going to call Bill Clinton to testify. Well???? Where is he?

I understand that he will testify before the commission, but it will NOT be under oath and I am not sure if it will be public.

Becki

[cyncooper]

Link at post #14, March 2001

Intelligence sources in Delhi said that while India, Russia and Iran were leading the anti-Taliban campaign on the ground, Washington was giving the Northern Alliance information and logistic support. "

But Dick Clarke told us the bush administration was ignoring Afghanistan, instead focusing obsessively and ill-advisedly on Iraq! My gosh, maybe he LIED!

[oceanview]

this might actually be a dangerous line of questioning against Rice. The "word" was that the Cheney wanted to pursue an economic strategy against the Taliban, buying them off with this pipeline deal (old thread below):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/685841/posts

if there is any whiff of this be affirmed, the Dems on the committee will demand Cheney's energy plan notes as part of the 9/11 evidence. god forbid there is anything in there linking the energy commision, Enron, and a plan to "make nice" with the Taliban before 9/11 because of an oil pipeline deal.

be careful with where this one could go.

[madison10]

Bush not doing much of a job reminding people of them.

He won't have to, Ms. Condi will.

[oceanview]

add this to post #32:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1109529/posts

see where this could go?

[AGreatPer]

"First Afghanistan. Then Iraq. Then Iran. Then Syria. Then the Saudis. Finally, we will have the oil and forward bases for the real enemy. China."

You are so right on the mark, you scare me.

I can say this, I have spent some time up at West Point and at the Army War College in Carlisle, PA. Enough said.

[Shermy]

That pipeline offer, one of many carrots, was dead long before 9/11 - and it was an old plan. Pakistanis lost interest, and the T-ban would never let it be built - because the Saudis wouldn't. It would have been competitive to the Saudis.

[oceanview]

I know, it was an on-again, off-again plan. My only point is, if it experienced a possible "on-again" discussion phase in 2001 before 9/11, related to the Cheney energy task force in any way, it could be trouble.

[Shermy]

Task force was about domestic shenanigans. Meetings with Enron and such.

The so called "Taliban" pipeline was a nothing.

[cyncooper]

The article linked at #11 talks about *military strikes*.

[oceanview]

right, after the negotiations went nowhere. the "carpet of gold" becomes the "carpet of bombs". that's the story at least.