Book says China involved in 9-11 attacks -- Beijing used bin Laden to assault U.S., claims author

WorldNetDaily ^ | 12/15/01 | Gordon Thomas

[spycatcher]

Sun Tzu would be proud. This is exactly the kind of stuff I expect from the Chinese. COSCO shipping containers with W-88 design nukes are likely in the future. They'll work around our ABM technology and avoid any blame.

[techdawg2k]

Didn't Clancy predict this about 14 mos ago?

[HiTech RedNeck]

On another note, Thomas believes President Bush's decision to pull out of the ABM treaty will cause Russia and China to strengthen their ties – to the detriment of the United States. "It's in China's interest to see the U.S. destablilized," he added.

Does Putin really want a Darwin Award?

[RightWhale]

If China was behind this in some way, they probably find the quick destruction of Alqaida highly entertaining.

[america-rules]

If China is in this or not I think they now know Mr. Bush ain't gonna take any sh*t from them at this time either way!

[spycatcher]

This makes a lot of sense now... Beijing Wants Muslim Fighters Returned (from Afghanistan)

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

China isn't liking things right about now. The shipping container with the W-88's is a red herring, it wouldn't take long to figure out who did it, and neither China nor Russia could withstand a US first strike, in all probability, so that would be a very, very bad move on their part.

[sheik yerbouty]

Beelzebubba has his legacy.

[Eternal_Bear]

The Chicoms would destroy us if they could but I can't see bin Laden taking orders from Chicom atheists. What did they tell him? "Attack America for us and by the way you and Omar will be totally destroyed. Thanks for the favor suckers." This is pure nebulous hypothesis but I am open to real evidence.

[The KG9 Kid]

I'm dubious on the idea that China deliberately wanted to instigate a fight between the US and radical Islam with the result potentially being a long-term US military presence on their weakest border.

[spycatcher]

You may be right about not using a W88 since we would know who did it. But there's no substitute for small pre-positioned nukes for an anonymous attack on D.C. The USSR did it during the cold war when we didn't have ABM technology and it would have still been obvious it was them.

In this case our first reaction would be that Russian backpack or Pakistani nukes got into the hands of Al Quada. We're using geiger counters in all our ports, and all around DC but we don't have enough to cover everywhere.

As far as striking China, I think they assume correctly we would never wipe them out with nukes unless they lauched all their missiles. I think official policy is even that we would just absorb a single ICBM without retaliating. China learned a lot about Bush's resolve to confront them when they forced our surveillance plane down -- that may have been a psychological probe more than anything. And we may in fact know they supported bin Laden's attack, but we'll never hear that anytime soon because we don't want to fight that big a war. At least not right now with Clinton's depleted military.

[MetalHeadConservative35]

heads up yall my instincts are proving true..ive noticed that bin laden's runs have always been to the east..call me crazy i say he's heading to china for cover cuz i think maybe bin laden is hoping we dont walk into china to avoid any conflict...

[spycatcher]

When China decided to throw their support behind the Taliban (this is documented fact) who was controlled by bin Laden it looks like they just linked up with an enemy of their enemy in order to take the focus of both off of China.

I don't think they expected the attack would be so devastating and lead to us in Afghanistan at all, let alone this fast or long-term. They figured we would never get involved in Afghanistan if they were technologically well-armed.

[spycatcher]

I think China told bin Laden he was on his own and "they didn't know him." China is laying low and their silence is deafening. They're being *very* quiet -- trying to hide from us by closing their eyes.

[mrobison]

You're all missing the obvious conclusion here: We will now reciprocally use Russia to hit China. Why do you think Bush and Putin are such good buddies now? Russia doesn't want to be China. They want to be the USA. Why do you think Bush pushed so hard on the SDI? Because when Russia kicks China down, we'll be safe.

It's Gog and Magog time, folks.

[spycatcher]

You're exactly right that ditching the ABM treaty and cozying up to Putin is *all* about China. But I don't know how much Putin will try to play both sides. They recently (pre 9-11) signed a Friendship and Cooperation Treaty with China. Notice how the Chinese quickly ratified it in October.

[Demidog]

Let's go to war with China. After we're done kicking the butts of the poorest, least well-trained "army" in the world, our President can pound his chest and tell us all how great the mighty U.S. war machine is. Then we'll turn it on a few more impoverished countries like Somolia and the Philipines to keep our confidence up. And then we'll go attack China. Won't we?

[mrobison]

Russia knows China did this (9/11) and Putin knows his people don't want to be a communist country anymore. Putin isn't playing both sides. He's ours. Otherwise, Bush's reaction would have been much different when he was here. China is going to burn.

I think it's going to come off just like in Revelations.

[Pistias]

I think it's going to come off just like in Revelations

Best get to praying, n'est-ce pas?

[Tom Jefferson]

Doing battle with China will be a little more difficult than we have encountered against the great Taliban armed forces.

Besides, we really don't want to have war with China. Much better if we can coexist..so long as they stay in China and don't get too adventurous. However...if evidence comes out that China had a hand in 9/11, I think economic sanctions should be in order. We are the principal buyer of Chinese products.