Dubai officials, Osama cozy before 9/11, CIA says

[ProSense]

Why strike Iraq when US believed bin Laden to be in the UAE? He, the terrorist wanted for 9/11, wasn't in Iraq.

Dubai officials, Osama cozy before 9/11, CIA says

BY CRAIG GORDON
NEWSDAY WASHINGTON BUREAU

February 24, 2006

WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush calls the nation behind the port-security controversy a trusted ally, but the Sept. 11 commission offers another take - saying the CIA believed top United Arab Emirates officials had cozy relations with Osama bin Laden before 9/11.

The United States even believed it had a lead on bin Laden two years before the attacks but passed up on an air strike to kill him.

The reason: fears of taking out UAE princes or other senior officials believed to be hosting bin Laden at a remote hunting camp in Afghanistan, the commission's report said.

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However, the White House insists that those days are gone and that the UAE has thrown in its lot with America, inviting U.S. warships to visit its ports for liberty calls and cracking down on terrorist financing.

Still, the 9/11 commission report offers an intriguing possible pre-9/11 link between some of the nation's rulers and bin Laden.


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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usosam244639485feb24,0,4785404.story?track=rss

That make no fu king sense.


edited to highlight a specific paragraph (not that any of it makes sense)

[hippiechick]

1. Sure it makes sense ...

... When you think about which 'America' the UAE has "thrown in its lot with" ... there's the America all of us live in, the one founded by the Revolutionaries, democracy, Constitution - all that stuff - and there's the 'America' of Bush and his international corporate raiders.

What most folks don't realize yet is that our 'leadership' has an entirely different set of goals in mind than what most of us think they were (s)elected to accomplish.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

2. It makes no sense?

It does to me, especially in light of events of the last couple of weeks.

The UAE tyrants (technical term) are Osama's *hunting buddies.* They used to slip over to Kandahar all the time for a little fun and frivolity on the high lonesome and some falconry.

Sheik Mohammad (UAE Crown Prince) is the Arab equivalent to Harry Whittington to Osama=Cheney. We didn't launch an airstrike in 1999 b/c we actually feared hitting their Exalted Noble Graciousnesses. This UAE trash apparently also tipped off Osama a time or two an laundered Al Q cash through their banks.

Disgusting.

[Virginia Dare]

3. Yes, trust me said the spider to the fly...EOM