The Mind of
Osama
bin Laden
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.
Visit the author's web site at www.jamesdonahue.com
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