CIA Rejects Claim It Sought Osama Deal Before 9/11

Reuters ^ | Nov. 13, 2003 | Reuters

[FairOpinion]

PARIS (Reuters) - The CIA rejected as fantasy claims in a new book that it tried to negotiate a non-aggression pact with Osama bin Laden just two months before the September 11, 2001 airliner attacks against the United States. Richard Labeviere, author of "The Corridors of Terror," released on Thursday, says the CIA's Dubai station chief approached bin Laden while the al Qaeda leader was being treated for a serious kidney complaint in the United Arab Emirates.

He said the meeting took place in the American Hospital in Dubai on July 12, barely eight weeks before al Qaeda militants slammed fuel-laden hijacked airliners into the Pentagon and New York's World Trade Center, killing almost 3,000 people. "Such an allegation is sheer fantasy, no such thing occurred," CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield said, echoing an earlier rebuttal by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency of French media reports in October 2001 about the alleged Dubai meeting.

Labeviere said he learned of an encounter from a contact in the Dubai hospital, and said the event was confirmed in detail during a separate interview in New York with a Gulf prince who presented himself as an adviser to the Emir of Bahrain.

The prince, who the author met in a Manhattan hotel in November 2001, appeared very well-informed about the CIA-bin Laden meeting.

Labeviere said the second contact told him the face-to-face had been arranged by Prince Turki al-Faisal, the head of the Saudi General Intelligence Department.

He quoted the second contact as saying:

"By organizing this meeting...Turki thought he could start direct negotiations between the Saudi millionaire (bin Laden) and the CIA on one fundamental point: that bin Laden and his supporters end their hostilities against American interests."

In exchange, the CIA and the Saudi (intelligence) services undertook to allow bin Laden to return to his native country, even though he was stripped of his Saudi nationality in July 1994. The Dubai meeting was a failure, Labeviere said.

The Saudi intelligence chief was sacked in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

Labeviere named Larry Mitchell as the CIA station chief who met bin Laden, describing him as a colorful figure well-known on the Dubai social circuit.

Mitchell left the Gulf state on July 15, 2001 and Labeviere said CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, had told him the operative was unavailable for interview because he was on his honeymoon.

At the time, bin Laden had a multi-million dollar price on his head for his suspected role in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa that killed 224 people.

Bin Laden was treated between July 4 and July 14 in the urology department of a kidney specialist at the American Hospital, Labeviere said, adding that the hospital denied this.

[FairOpinion]

I did read some time ago, that Bin Laden was in that hospital and that a CIA agent visited him. (If true, can't imagine, why didn't the CIA guy just kill him.)

Now we know what can be accomplished by negotiating with terrorists.

[John Valentine]

Various "journalists" have been slopping this hogswallop for a couple years now.

It's no more true now than it was the first time they took the lid off the bucket.

[concerned about politics]

Bin Laden : The U.S. will bow to Allah - Deal?
No? Then forget it! The deal is off!

[PhiKapMom]

Exactly -- it has been debunked over and over again!

[concerned about politics]

He's from FRANCE. LOL. No bias there!

Richard Labevière currently works with the Temps magazine Present, with French-speaking Switzerland Television. It published, inter alia, Praise of dogmatism - against the A and consumer society (editions of the Surface, 1989 )

[maestro]

Cool,......this would make a great Islamic 'porno' movie?

/sarcasm

[FairOpinion]

I pretty much thought it is most likely not true, until it cropped up again this time.

Do you or anyone know anything about the author of the book?

"Richard Labeviere, author of "The Corridors of Terror,"

[ALOHA RONNIE]

WHY did the CLINTONS refuse 3 Free Offers from the Sudan during the 1990's to hand over our already No. 1 Terrorist Enemy OSAMA bin LADEN to us before he could Attack us all on September 11, 2001..?

MONSOOR IJAZ, the 1990's Broker of these OSAMA Offers, confirmed their being made and then refused by the CLINTONS on the FoX News Channel on September 12, 2001.

IBRAHIM MOHAMMED, the 1990's Sudan Ammbassador to the U.S. and representative of the Sudan President during these OSAMA Offers, confirmed their being made and then refused by the CLINTONS to me personally in June 2003.

DICK MORRIS, the 1990's personal White House Political Advisor to the CLINTONS during these OSAMA Offers, comfirmed 2 of them being made and then refused by the CLINTONS to me personally on National Talk Radio in June 2003 ..TWICE.

...Accountibiliy is as Accountibility does, perhaps..?

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[Destro]

Clinton was allied with al-Qaeda in the Balkans-why find this so strange? Osama was once our boy since the Cold War before he went rogue.

[FairOpinion]

He attacked the WTC in 1993, which should have put him on the "most wanted list, dead or alive".

If you have a dog, and it goes mad, you still have to shoot it, not let it go around and bite everyone.

[Destro]

U put it right--he was our dog that turned and bit the hand of its master.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

CLINTON supported our Terrorist Enemy HO CHI MINH during the Vietnam War.

RODHAM supported our Terrorist Enemy HO CHI MINH during the Vietnam War.

No Change since.

[okie01]

"Do you or anyone know anything about the author of the book?"

See #5

[FairOpinion]

Thanks.

I noticed that after I posted my post in response to an earlier one.

[flamefront]

The intentional disregard of the impending terrorist attacks against America, and the failure to retaliate against those that had occurred, had but one objective, harming the U.S. as part of a greater Marxist strategy from which the Clintons could themselves profit politically.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

NEVER FORGET


...Thank you very much, flamefront, for your validation of what I've been posting online and sharing on Talk Radio/TV ever since MONSOOR IJAZ's stunning TV Appearance on the FoX News Channel on September 12, 2001 in which he told us about the CLINTONS refusing his 3 OSAMA Offers from the Sudan during the 1990's that would have stopped the Attacks of September 11, 2001.

...Our fellow U.S. 7th Cavalry's Battle of IA DRANG-1965 Veteran RICK RESCORLA suddenly and so unnecessarily died on September 11, 2001, after getting just about everybody else out of the WTC Tower 2, because of the CLINTONS always being on the side of our Terrorist Enemies ever since the Vietnam War.


See:

U.S. 7th Cavalry's RICK RESCORLA Presidential Medal of Freedom Petition

http://www.lzxray.com


..-&-..


..A Freeper Vet goes to the Vietnam Wall..

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1019769/posts?page=47 (Thread)



Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer / Vet-U.S. 7th Cavalry's Battle of IA DRANG-1965

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
(Photos)


NEVER FORGET