Washington (CNN) -- An intercepted message indicates some members of al Qaeda are looking to the group's founder for more visible leadership, a U.S. intelligence official told CNN Wednesday after CIA director Leon Panetta talked about the message in a newspaper interview.
Osama bin Laden is "rarely seen, rarely heard," the official said, and that is "troubling" to those who see him as their leader.
"There are strong indications that some al Qaeda terrorists would like Bin Laden to take a higher profile," the official said, adding that Panetta's comments in the Washington Post were referring to the al Qaeda core that is operating along the Pakistan/Afghanistan border.
Al Qaeda "is on the run, but still coming after us," the official said.
I mean the US govt. position on AL-Quaida is still insane:
In the year 2001, the Taleban had pretty much eradicated Opium cultivation and had blocked the Caspian Pipeline project. They were destorying future profits of the CIA and western oil companies.
The CIA knew it would be hard to sell the invasion and ousting of the Taleban, they couldn't really say they wanted to invade Afghanistan to reduce oil export costs from the middle-east and to resurrect opium production.
During the Summer of 2001, they made plans to topple the Taleban, that much was on-record and is documented... but they still needed to find a way to convince the general public that an invasion was necessary.
At this point they had already received intel (anyone remember Wesley Clark raising the issue of the intel warnings that seemed to be ignored?!) to suggest that Osama Bin Laden was intending to attack the US. Now all they had to do was sit back and let it happen, associate Bin Laden with the Taleban in Afghanistan (ignoring that he is a Saud and ignoring that he was in a Pakistani hospital under guard of Pakistan's ISI they day before 9/11) and they would have their reason.
Within months of this planning, the CIA's old database of Mujahadeen fighters (a database the CIA gave the name "Al-Qaeda" to) were about to be a feared name around the world, despite the fact that there never was a group of people officially calling themselves "Al-Qaeda".
Exactly how and why the attack credited to Bin Laden occurred at the exact same time as "war game" training drills occurred remains a mystery.
The funding of this and Mohammed Atta's involvement was ignored and deemed insignifant by the 9/11 Commission. It's also a mystery as to why this was the case, we know Atta was meeting several US officials/politicians in the days prior to 9/11 but beyond that, not much is known.
As for Iraq, you merely need to look at it's oil reserves and potential and the fact it had one of the larger military forces in the middle east... to understand why so many lies were made to justify invading it.
We were lied to by an (at-the-time) unelected president (at least unelected the first time and who knows with Diebold, etc. maybe the 2nd time too?) who was friends with the oil industry, banking cartels, CIA, etc. and whose family have been involved in planning coups, the central banking scam, theft from other people's savings and so on, deceived into a war that resulted in at least 100,000 documented civilian deaths (and probably hundreds of thousands of undocumented) and thousands of military deaths and millions of severe injuries... ALL BASED ON DECEPTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FEW.
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Why does everyone insist on spreading the lie that Bin Laden is some sort of CIA creation.
A brief history:
Bin Laden went to Afghanistan in late 79 early 80 in order to assess the situation with the new Soviet-Afghan war. There he met a man by the name of Dr. Abdullah Azzam. Azzam had connections with the Jordanian based Muslim Brotherhood. Azzam became a mentor of sorts for Bin Laden and together they begin a group based in Pakistan which would faciliate muslim fighters who were coming in from all over the world in order to take part in the war in Afghanistan. The name of that group at the time was Maktab al Khidmat lil Mujahidin al-Arab (MAK)
In two books by Peter Bergen, "Holy War Inc." and "The Osama Bin Laden I Know" as well as the book "Inside Al Qaeda" by Rohan Gunaratna both authors say there is absoultely no evidence, I say again ZERO evidence, Bin Laden ever met with CIA officials the whole time he was in Afghanistan or Pakistan, and that the group MAK he and Azzam started, which was eventually re-named Al Qaeda ("The Base") ever received funds from the CIA. The fact is Bin Laden's hatred of American goes alot further back then just the past 10 or 20 years.
Just to finish the story, once the Soviets had been defeated, Azzam was interested in keeping Al Qaeda as a quick response force for other oppressed Msulims worldwide. Bin Laden was more interested in using Al Qaeda as more of a terrorist organiztion targeting the west. Eventually in 1989 Azzam was killed by a car bomb alng with some of his sons. It is widely suspected Bin Laden played a hand in killed his former mentor. With Azzam out of the way Bin Laden was able to take full control of Al Qaeda and steer it in the direction you know it as today.
I hope this was helpful to you in sheading some light on the history of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda.
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