I'm revisiting the Canestraro Declaration and I'll try to...
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Apr 05, 2024
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I'm revisiting the Canestraro Declaration and I'll try to supplement this with stuff from Brisard's Forbidden Truth to tie the 9/11 hijackers to the Bush-Saudi financial network. We have a direct funding link from Prince Bandar and the Saudi Embassy to the hijackers's handler.
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Zelikow consciously covered up Saudi involvement for the commission
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The CIA made sure no one outside of their UBL station knew about the presence of al Hazmi and Mihdhar in the US
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And the bombshell: Bayoumi, who worked for Saudi intelligence, handled the hijackers at the behest of the CIA, who was "attempting" to recruit them. The CIA didn't want FBI interfering with this.
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The CIA obstructed the 9/11 Commission; they facilitated al Hazmi and Mihndhar getting their visas to come to the US in the first place; the FBI was investigating them and probably unaware that they were involved in a CIA operation.
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Strange practices at the CIA's UBL station: analysts directing operations rather than a case officer; analysts using pseudonyms when their work is not classified and they don't ever work undercover.
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The CIA maintained operational files on al Bayoumi and Saudi intelligence was used for the operation because the CIA is not allowed to conduct operations in the US
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So here we have evidence that a month before 9/11, French intelligence alerted the CIA and the FBI that Moussaoui was trained by Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, currently living in the US, taking flying lessons and in contact with the al Qaeda network.
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Additionally we have one single, vast financial network for the bin Laden family, Al Qaeda and the Saudi Royal Family
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And we link that network to the Bush administration through Khalid bin Mahfouz, Carlyle Group, Salem bin Laden, James Bath and others
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Richard Clarke's belief that al Bayoumi was being used by the CIA to entrap Hazmi and Mihdhar, to target al Qaeda; George Tenet never denies the allegation
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Here Bush and Bandar plan the Iraq war. From Woodward, State of Denial
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So we tie the handling of the hijackers back to the CIA through Bandar and Saudi intelligence; we tie the funding of al Qaeda back to the Saudi government and Bush-owned Riggs bank and a whole banking system that's leads back to the Bush administration.
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And just a little bit about why we should listen to Canestraro and how he could tell that Bayoumi's FBI file was designated as a counter-intelligence matter
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So basically, the operational and financial links between the perpetrators and the Bush administration are so profound that regardless of who knew what, or what happened to the towers, it was in the most important sense an inside job.
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Just gonna supplement the above with some stuff from Craig Unger. On September 13th, Bandar and Bush meet at the White House and smoke cigars (!) and discuss the war on terror. Bush tells Bandar they will turn over any uncooperative al Qaeda members to the Saudis.
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This implies that the Saudis, with their more..."lax" attitude towards civil rights, will be free to do whatever they want to them. Other than that, it's not known what the two men discussed that day.
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And of course on Sept. 13, before the flight restrictions had lifted, Bandar arranged for over 140 Saudis, including members of the bin Laden family, to be flown out of the country.
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What pops out from the book is the leadup to 9/11 as Bush begins planning the Iraq war pretty much in January. Bin Laden goes to his son's wedding in Kandahar that's attended by members of his family, and that same month his sisters give money to an al Qaeda operative.
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So clearly bin Laden is still financially connected to his family and he's not the lone nut they'll say he is. In June 2001 the US embassy in Saudi Arabia announces that any Saudi citizen can get a US visa without appearing in person.
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On August 21, the CIA tells the INS to put al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi on the terrorist watch list, which is weird because the CIA has been tracking them closely in relation to some kind of al Qaeda entrapment scheme. The INS fails to tell the White House.
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The Saudi hatred for Saddam Hussein went back to Desert Storm when the first Bush administration successfully convinced them that he was the devil himself and must be gotten rid of. Bandar was one of the biggest cheerleaders for the war in DC, winning over many skeptics.
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And to add to the CIA's involvement with al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar, we have the high possibility that Nicholas Berg was Mossad or CIA and it's a fact that he had been involved with Moussaoui in Oklahoma.
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To return to my first post, Bandar used the Bush-owned Riggs Bank to pay the hijackers. Riggs has a long history of corruption and has done banking for the Pinochet regime and Exxon's operations in Equatorial Guinea. Good deep dive here: hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/upl…
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So the question is, what was the CIA’s real role? When would they have decided to allow bin Laden to survive long enough to plan (or give the appearance of planning) 9/11? Steve Coll makes it sound like it was impossible to eliminate bin Laden even if they wanted to
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Another anecdote from Steve Coll: When the CIA decided to partner with Ahmed Massoud and the Northern Alliance to get rid of bin Laden, Massoud warned them that al Qaeda was so large that with the Taliban's protection bin Laden's plans would go forward with or without him.
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In Ghost Wars there are pages upon pages examining every practical impediment to eliminating bin Laden. On top of this, the CIA never suggested using its own forces; Clinton never made a firm tactical decision; just bombing Afghanistan was wildly unpopular; and it goes on.
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Basically, it was impossible to get rid of al Qaeda and the Taliban without 9/11. So you let the terrorists strike, or make it look like they struck, and then the public supports an invasion and DC's bureaucratic inertia is gone.
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Bin Laden's rhetoric in 1998 completely pivots away from his hatred for Saudi Arabia, which had dominated his previous fatwas and statements. Probably marks the time Saudi government support for al Qaeda began. pbs.org/wgbh/pages/fro…
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None of the above should elide the separate issue of Pakistan's involvement in the whole geopolitical situation surrounding 9/11. But that's probably for a different thread at this point
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But I think we can safely say the CIA and Saudi intelligence knew about the plan by 2000 and were tracking and aiding the hijackers. And the 9/11 Commission covered it all up.
It's taken two decades to make these claims without sounding crazy.
It's taken two decades to make these claims without sounding crazy.
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Gonna post these documents here for reference
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I'm just gonna make the argument that the missing 28 pages of the 9/11 Commission Report is the most important US gov. document of the 21st century. Censored for THIRTEEN years. 28pagesdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/declas…
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Just to consolidate my 9/11 stuff I’ll leave this here
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Gonna look at the papers found in bin Laden's compound to see how they jive with what we've been told and what we've learned from the 28 pages, the Executive Order 14040 releases, the Canestraro declaration etc.
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And I maintain that this highly problematic book is instructive
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Basically, the above is an early version of the propaganda playbook that Bush would use to invade Afghanistan and Iraq after 9/11. Of course the narrative was clumsily altered and pushed onto the American people by Bush and co. but there are substantial similarities.
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In the 80s Bin Laden, the ISI, Saudi intelligence, the CIA, 2 Saudi banks, and the Saudi Islamic charities functioned as one well-oiled machine. The 9/11 Commission tried to convince us that that machine wasn’t in continuous operation up to 9/11.
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To add to bin Laden's '98 pivot away from Saudi Arabia as a target: In March '97 the Taliban asked him to refrain from anti-Saudi activities. wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/9…
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October '98: bin Laden and the Taliban enjoy huge popularity in rural Pakistan, exacerbated by US cruise missile strikes, anti-Muslim policies and Pakistani leadership wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/9…
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It's funny that in '96 Clinton's State Dept. can ask Saudi Arabia to engage with the Taliban and pressure them to close the al Qaeda training camps, but the Saudis proceed to fund al Qaeda and Bush's buddy Bandar will personally finance the hijackers wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/9…
