El Mundo, Spain: Osama Bin Laden Is In China

[reorg]

El Mundo, Spain: Osama Bin Laden Is In China

11 October 2004 | 21:03 | FOCUS News Agency



Madrid. In the final stage of the presidential elections in the USA, President George Bush might use Osama Bin Laden as a trump, writes Irish journalist Gordon Thomas in the liberal Spanish daily El Mundo. According to Thomas, Washington is negotiating secretly with Peking for taking Osama Bin Laden out of his refuge in the north-western parts of the country, which are populated mostly with Muslims. Last summer, Bin Laden concluded an agreement with the regime of Peking, which promised to shelter the terrorist in exchange for putting an end to the partisan war of the Chinese Muslims against the People’s Republic of China, the journalist claims. Thousand of Muslims in the region are involved in human and drug trafficking to the West. After the arrival of Osama Bin Laden, the region is relatively calm, the journalist points out.

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=139&newsid=49561&ch=0&datte=2004-10-11

The El Mundo article is here:

http://www.el-mundo.es/cronica/2004/469/1097487207.html

>>Durante la recta final, al rojo vivo, de las elecciones norteamericanas, Osama bin Laden podría convertirse en el as en la manga del presidente Bush. En estos momentos, Washington está negociando un acuerdo de alto secreto con Beijing, la capital china, para extraer a Bin Laden de su santuario en las turbulentas provincias chino musulmanas, al noroeste del país de la Gran Muralla.

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El pasado verano, Bin Laden cerró un trato con el régimen de Beijing por el que se le prometió asilo a cambio de que éste garantizara el cese de la guerra de guerrillas emprendida por los musulmanes chinos contra la República Popular China.

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«Una nueva administración Bush presentaría a Beijing como su gran nuevo aliado en la guerra contra el terrorismo. China disfrutaría en Washington del estatus de nación más favorecida en todas sus facetas posibles. Contratos valorados en miles de millones de dólares serían aprobados por la vía rápida. El historial de violaciones de los Derechos Humanos en China sería ignorado», confirmó la semana pasada un funcionario de alto nivel del Pentágono. Añadió que sólo un puñado de «miembros de muy alto rango» de la Administración Bush conocía el plan de «coger a Bin Laden a cambio de una relación especial con China». Casi con total certeza, entre ellos se encontrarían el vicepresidente, Dick Cheney, y el secretario de Defensa, Donald Rumsfeld.

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«Hasta qué punto puede alcanzar esta colaboración en las semanas que restan hasta la cita electoral estadounidense dependerá en buena medida de la confianza que Bush inspire a los chinos a la hora de mantener sus promesas con ellos», afirmó el funcionario del Pentágono.

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found at

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/index.html

>>Bin Laden In China: An article titled "Bin Laden está en China" appears on El Mundo, a Spanish Daily. Will one of our readers be kind enough to translate the article and email it to [email protected] . Thank you.<<

[indigobusiness]

1. That makes more sense

than dodging bunker busting bombs and commando raids.

[qwlauren35]

2. I heard this rumor today...

I'd REALLY like to know if it's at all possible.

The thought that Bush would pull this trump card scares the piss out of me.

[alarcojon]

3. I would need a LOT of proof

that the Chinese government entered into any sort of negotiations with Bin Laden. Doesn't smell right to me.

[reorg]

8. I also don't buy it that China would make some kind of deal with OBL

But maybe he is just parked there for the day before the election, with Chinese consent?

To me it sounds more like an attempt to make Kerry tone it down a bit, he is the only one, after all, who even mentions Osama bin Forgotten any more.

OTOH, if there is something to it, Kerry should seek to do an October surprise of his own, maybe with the help of malcontents in the CIA, and convince the Chinese that they will get along better with him and not surrender the villain before November 2nd. :-)

[Synnical]

4. China denies hiding Osama bin Laden

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041019-044709-7901r.htm

Beijing, China, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue Tuesday sharply denied that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Chinese territory near the Pakistan border.

At a regularly scheduled press briefing, Zhang was asked by a Spanish reporter to comment on an article by British journalist Gordon Thomas printed in the Oct. 13 edition of El Mundo alleging the mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was holed up in China.


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Saying she had not read the article, Zhang added, "I don't know what he has based the story upon, but this report is irresponsible. I can say in clear terms that bin Laden is not in China."

[DavidDvorkin]

5. If this were true, the Chinese would want to keep him there

If Osama is there and is keeping the local Moslem unrest down, the last thing the Chinese government would want is to remove him from the area.

[Raster]

6. Kick!!! If bin laden DOES turn up before the election, we need to ...

... make sure there's a shitload of prior documentation showing this was in the works for awhile.

And to correct a point, during the Iranian hostage crisis, the Iranians were willing to give up the hostages a hell of alot sooner than they did. It was james baker and bush the older that convinced the Iranians to hold onto the hostages just a little while longer. And thanks to their dear friends the saudis, gas was at an all-time high. Carter NEVER had a chance.

And the B.F.E.E. moves upward and onward.

[Synnical]

7. Exactly

If the October surprise is bin laden - here is the Chinese government, on record, stating that he's not there.