Reply #88: Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill Dubya, his former business partner?

[Octafish]

Lots of people on those lists, unfortunately. Here's one name that stands out.

Jim Hatfield detailed how Osama bin Laden planned to crash a plane loaded with explosives into the G-8 summit in Genoa Italy in APRIL 2001. Bush slept offshore aboard a US warship and the meeting was guarded by a ring of SAM batteries.

No wonder Ashcroft stopped flying commercial. Maybe the BFEE should have told the rest of the flying public. Who knows what might not have happened on September 11, 2001.

It was the last article Hatfield wrote. A “suicide.”

Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill Dubya, his former business partner?

By James Hatfield
 
Editor's note: In light of last week's horrific events and the Bush administration's reaction to them, we are reprising the following from the last column Jim Hatfield wrote for Online Journal prior to his tragic death on July 18:

July 3, 2001—There may be fireworks in Genoa, Italy, this month, too.

A plot by Saudi master terrorist, Osama bin Laden, to assassinate Dubya during the July 20 economic summit of world leaders, was uncovered after dozens of suspected Islamic militants linked to bin Laden's international terror network were arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, and Milan, Italy, in April.

German intelligence services have stated that bin Laden is covertly financing neo-Nazi skinhead groups throughout Europe to launch another terrorist attack at a high-profile American target—his first since the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen last October.

According to counter-terrorism experts quoted in Germany's largest newspaper, the attack on Dubya might be a James Bond-like aerial strike in the form of remote-controlled airplanes packed with plastic explosives.

SNIP...

In June 1977, Dubya formed his own drilling company, Arbusto Energy ("arbusto" means "bush" in Spanish), in Midland, Texas. Like his father before him, Dubya founded his oil business with the financial backing of investors, including James R. Bath, a Houston businessman whom Dubya apparently first met when they were in the same Texas Air National Guard unit. (Interestingly, both Dubya and Bath were both suspended from flying in August and September 1972, respectively, for "failure to accomplish annual medical examination.")

CONTINUED...

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Hatfield-R-091901/hatfield-r-091901.html

The odd thing is that Hatfield didn't believe Duhbya was under a real threat, just that he was exhibiting his usual cowardly behavior. Truth of the matter, there were at least a handful of dots that Bush managed to connect: Hijacked -- Jet planes -- bin Laden -- Crash -- Bush. Doesn't make any difference for Hatfield, may he rest in peace. Dead is dead.