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The Mind of Osama bin Laden
By James Donahue
Who would have thought that
a once obscure "freedom fighter" living in a cave in remote Afghanistan could organize a single attack that threatens to bring
down the greatest nation in the world?
If we can pause for a moment to wipe away the media implanted images of horror
following the September 11 attacks, think of the following:
The attacks were so beautifully orchestrated, and the
concept of using four commercial airliners laden with aircraft fuel as controlled flying bombs was so unexpectedly brilliant
that military strategists must admire the mind of the person who directed them. It was an ultimate act of contemporary gorilla
warfare.
Some Internet conspiracy theorists say they doubt if anyone could have pulled off such an attack without the
cooperation of the CIA, the FBI, and the U. S. Military. Because the probability of getting four suicide pilots coordinated
to take over airliners and successfully fly them into buildings in the same general area and at the same general time is so
remote, some have suggested that the planes were remote controlled so they took the deadly courses they flew.
That
Osama bin Laden escaped the intense military bombardment and dragnet set up around the al-Qaeda network, and that President
Bush no longer seems to make the capture of bin Laden among his top priorities, suggests to me that there may, indeed, have
been some collusion. There is a story that bin Laden once worked as a CIA operative under George Bush the senior and I have
long suspected that he may still be on the CIA payroll.
While I cannot write off possible internal involvement in
the 9-11 attacks, I am convinced that bin Laden and the al-Qaeda were involved with the plot. My son, Aaron C. Donahue, a
skilled remote viewer, posted the exact site where the plan was drafted on his web page within days after the attack, and
long before government agents publicly targeted the Afghanistan Taliban.
Aaron and his mentor, Maj.
Edward Dames, and other remote viewers on Dames' team, determined that the plot to attack America was hatched in bunkers,
located under Ahmad Shah Durrani's Tomb, in Kandahar, Afganistan. They posted this information, complete with a map. Major
Dames also filed this information with Pentagon officials through his organization, the Matrix Intelligence Agency. This was
vital information that might have been used to send a trained commando unit to quietly take out this bunker. With luck such
an attack might even have captured bin Laden and his team. Quick action in those first few days after 9-11 might have achieved
our objective and avoided the need to kill thousands of innocent Afghanistan citizens by the massive bombing campaign chosen
by President Bush.
That the military was looking at both Ed and Aaron's web sites was quite obvious. The town of Kandahar
was extensively bombed throughout the campaign. It was among the first targets. By the time the bombs were falling, however,
all of the key players in this drama were moved out. There were only innocent civilians left to be killed.
CNN recently
broadcast Osama bin Laden's last-known television interview, conducted by the Qatar-based Al Jazeera network in late October.
In the interview, bin Laden made an interesting prediction:
"I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed,"
bin Laden said. "The U.S. government will lead the American people in, and the West in general, into an unbearable hell and
a choking life."
Bin Laden also defended the Taliban for shooting back when we attacked them. "If inciting people to
do that is terrorism, and if killing those who kill our sons is terrorism, then let history be witness that we are terrorists,"
he said.
Bin Laden has been careful in all of his interviews to avoid saying anything that links him directly to the
9-11 attacks. To date, the Bush Administration claims to have proof bin Laden did this deed, but this so-called proof has
never been made public. All we have seen are captured "home video" tapes that show fake bin Ladens gloating over the attack.
Suppose that our president might just be telling us the truth on this one. Assuming that bin Laden is the mastermind
behind the September attacks on America, I must return to my original admiration for the way in which they were carried out.
Even the selection of the World Trade Center as the primary target was strategically perfect.
In one quick act, this
obscure billionaire, who gave up all materialism to live in a cave, struck at the heart of Capitalism. The strike on the Trade
Center was such a dramatic blow against world commerce the corporate giants of the world are beginning to crumble. We saw
Enron fall. K-Mart went into bankruptcy. Japan's economy is in crisis. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs. Factories
are either shutting down or dramatically trimming back on production.
The stock market has been wavering. It plunged
dramatically after the attacks and now teeters on the brink of collapse.
The Bush Administration, of course, over-reacted.
Our military spent billions in a bombing campaign that achieved very little. In his State of the Union message, Mr. Bush asked
for an expanded military budget and made it clear that we will probably be attacking other countries "that harbor terrorists."
In the meantime, the Bush agenda has eaten up a reported multi-trillion-dollar budget surplus. According to a recent report
by U. S. News and World Report, Congress may soon be dipping into America's coveted Social Security money to continue this
insanity.
An intricate part of the craziness going on in Washington: Attorney General John Ashcroft successfully goated
our legislators to tromp on our freedoms with laws that disregard the Bill of Rights and the U. S. Constitution. I suspect
that every American will soon be forced to carry personal identification papers and show them at check points as they move
from place to place. We will have our telephone calls, our e-mail and our fax messages intercepted by agents looking for dangerous
citizens with subversive ideas. Any careless word might get us arrested.
Amazing isn't it?
In
that one brilliant act of terrorism, Osama bin Laden (if he is the guilty party) not only brought down big business, he destroyed
our nation's cash reserve and snatched our freedom. And he did all of this because we allowed it. Our leaders are constantly
warning the public of another terrorist attack; but why should there be one? That one single attack accomplished everything
the al-Qaeda (and George W. Bush) ever hoped to achieve.
In the meantime, bin Laden appears to be laughing at our
buffoonery.
In the CNN interview, he said he thought it humorous when the Bush administration asked American media
not to broadcast his taped interviews because they might contain "hidden messages" to his followers in the United States.
"They
made hilarious claims," bin Laden said. "They said that Osama's messages have codes in them to the terrorists. It's as if
we were living in the time of mail by carrier pigeon, when there are no phones, no travelers, no Internet, no regular mail,
no express mail and no electronic mail.
"I mean, these are very humorous things. They discount people's intellect."
Indeed.
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