{"id":201059,"date":"2015-11-18T00:29:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T00:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=201059"},"modified":"2016-02-17T18:05:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T18:05:18","slug":"politico-reports-bush-knew-2001-terror-attack-was-imminent-and-wanted-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/politico-reports-bush-knew-2001-terror-attack-was-imminent-and-wanted-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Politico Reports Bush Knew 2001 Terror-Attack Was Imminent and Wanted It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

A stunning news-report at Politico on November 12th, titled\u00a0\u201cThe Attacks Will Be Spectacular,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0reveals that the then CIA Director George Tenet, and his anti-terror chief Cofer Black, say that they had told the White House this, but that the response coming back to them was \u201cWe\u2019re not quite ready to consider this. We don\u2019t want the clock\u00a0to start ticking.\u201d As Politoco\u2019s reporter, Chris Whipple, then explains: “(Translation: they did not want a paper trail to show that\u00a0they\u2019d been warned.)\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It can\u2019t get much more damning than that. Bush knew it was going to happen but did nothing to stop it. He didn\u2019t even try to. In other words: His only actual concern at the time was for it to be done in such a way that his prior knowledge of it wouldn\u2019t be provable \u2013 that his participation in it, his consciously allowing it to happen, would be deniable. He insisted on that deniability. He has consistently followed through with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whipple then writes:<\/span><\/p>\n

That morning of July 10, the head of the agency\u2019s Al Qaeda\u00a0unit, Richard Blee, burst into Black\u2019s office. \u201cAnd he says,\u00a0\u2018Chief, this is it. Roof’s fallen in,\u2019\u201d recounts Black. \u201cThe\u00a0information that we had compiled was absolutely compelling.\u00a0It was multiple-sourced. And it was sort of the last straw.\u201d\u00a0Black and his deputy rushed to the director\u2019s office to brief\u00a0Tenet. All agreed an urgent meeting at the White House was\u00a0needed.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

This meeting was held in the White House. But it was with Condoleezza Rice, Bush\u2019s National Security Advisor and close friend, not with Bush himself \u2013 deniability was Bush\u2019s obsession, and, doing things this way would preserve it; if word of this meeting would ever get out, then Rice would be the only person with explaining to do. Deniability would be preserved; she was protecting the President, from accountability for allowing the attack \u2013 whenever it would come.\u00a0Even an urgent matter like this didn\u2019t draw Bush\u2019s attendance, to speak with Tenet and Black and question them about this urgent matter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Black and Tenet were stunned by her response. Black told Politico, \u201cTo me it remains incomprehensible still. I mean, how is it\u00a0that you could warn senior people so many times and nothing\u00a0actually happened? It\u2019s kind of like\u00a0The Twilight Zone<\/i>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

However, when the White House had said \u201cWe don\u2019t want the clock to start ticking,\u201d the answer to that mystery was already clear, and both Black and Tenet were intelligent people; they knew what the explanation was, but they also knew they\u2019d be in danger if they were to say it publicly: The White House was planning to assert something like \u201cWe didn\u2019t know it was coming,\u201d once it had come. And, of course, that is precisely what the White House did say. And it continues to say: Bush\u2019s successor has no interest in denying it, and President Obama even perpetrates his own lies upon the public, such as by his saying that\u00a0the 21 August 2013 sarin gas attack in Syria was done by Bashar al-Assad\u2019s forces, instead of by forces that Obama supplied \u2013 and knew had actually done it<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and such as his saying that the overthrow of Ukraine\u2019s democratically elected (but, like virtually all of recent Ukrainian leaders, corrupt) President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014 was a democratic revolution there, instead of the American\u00a0coup<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that it was,\u00a0which his own Administration had started organizing in the Spring of 2013<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

George W. Bush comes from an oil family, and this was an oil-based operation. Another of Bush\u2019s buddies was\u00a0\u201cBandar Bush\u201d<\/span><\/a>, Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud, the Saudi royal who was at the time the Kingdom\u2019s Ambassador in Washington, but who, subsequently became the Saud family\u2019s chief international strategist. Wikipedia, for example, notes of him that, “After tensions with\u00a0Qatar\u00a0over supplying rebel groups [to take down Assad in Syria], Saudi Arabia (under Bandar’s leadership of\u00a0its\u00a0Syria policy) switched its efforts from Turkey to Jordan in 2012,\u00a0using its financial leverage over Jordan\u00a0to develop training facilities\u00a0there, with Bandar sending his half-brother and deputy\u00a0Salman bin Sultan\u00a0to\u00a0oversee them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

President Obama continues protecting George W. Bush, and protecting the Saud family from being pursued for its\u00a0being the world\u2019s chief financial backer of jihadists (\u201cterrorists”), by Obama\u2019s keeping incommunicado in a federal prison the man who had served Osama bin Laden throughout as the bookkeeper for Al Qaeda and as the bagman who traveled especially to the Sunni homeland Saudi Arabia, but also to other Sunni Arabic kingdoms, collecting loads of cash multimillion-dollar donations for Al Qaeda\u2019s cause of global jihad \u2013cash from, among other people, Prince Bandar bin Sultan himself. The bookkeeper\/bagman said that they paid their fighters high salaries. Those were at least as much mercenaries as they were jihadists. The bookkeeper\/bagman also said, \u201cwithout the money of the \u2013 of the Saudi you will have nothing.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0The bookkeeper\u2019s\/bagman\u2019s testimony became required in a court case that had been filed by 9\/11 family members, and even the U.S. President wasn\u2019t able to prevent it, or else was subtly signaling the Saudi King that the U.S. is the boss and can bring him down, if Obama should decide to do that. Only with the continued cooperation of the American press now would the secret of the funding of the interntional jihad movement remain a secret.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the U.S. aristocracy certainly don\u2019t want the President whom they own to do that; after all, the Sauds have always been extremely profitable for them. As Thalif Deen of Inter Press Service\u00a0reported on 9 November 2015<\/span><\/a>, “The biggest single arms deal \u2014 up to 60 billion dollars worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia \u2013 has been described as the largest in U.S. history. According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the nonpartisan investigative arm of the U.S. Congress, about $40 billion in\u00a0arms transfers was authorised to the six Gulf countries between 2005 and 2009, with Saudi Arabia and the UAE as the largest recipients.\u201d The Sauds were buying more than all the other Sunni royal families together, even more than the Thanis, who control Qatar. Those two, and\u00a0UAE<\/span><\/a>, all being Sunni fundamentalist dictatorships, have contributed the most to bringing down the secular Shiite leader of Syria, Bashar al-Assad. America\u2019s aristocracy also benefits by the Saud family\u2019s long history of assisting the U.S. aristocracy in its long-held dream of taking control of Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

On 9 October 2001, just after 9\/11,\u00a0The New York Times<\/i> quoted Bandar Bush<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

“Bin Laden used to come to us when America, underline, America, through the\u00a0C.I.A. and Saudi Arabia, were helping our brother\u00a0mujahedeen in Afghanistan, to\u00a0get rid of the communist secularist Soviet Union forces,” Prince Bandar said.\u00a0“Osama bin Laden came and\u00a0said `Thank you. Thank you for bringing the\u00a0Americans to help us.\u2019\u00a0\u201c<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Though communism is over, the secularism in Russia\u2019s government isn\u2019t, and Russia has increasingly become a major competitor to the fundamentalist Sunni oil dictators, competing in international oil and gas markets (especially the European market); so, the jihadist dictatorships, and the United States, share common cause in replacing the government of Russia, for the mutual benefit of all of those nations\u2019 aristocracies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And, besides, the investors in Lockheed Martin and other Pentagon contractors are greatly profiting from selling the weaponry etc. to do this job. The U.S. President is their best salesman.\u00a0President Obama\u2019s National Security Strategy 2015<\/i> \u00a0thus points the finger of blame at Russia for 17 of the 18 times it employs the term \u201caggression.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0That\u2019s Obama\u2019s assignment for the U.S. \u2018Defense\u2019 Department and they would never participate in aggression; and, so, too, the term \u201caggression\u201d is never applied there to the U.S. itself. For example, our bombing of Libya to get rid of Muammar Gaddafi, an ally of Russia, was purely defensive, entirely in keeping with the traditions of the U.S. ‘Defense’ Department.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s something else that Bandar Bush said there:<\/span><\/p>\n

He acknowledged that the root of some of the rage in radical Islamic circles is economic, and that human rights was a luxury\u00a0some Arab states cannot afford. “We want the right to eat for a lot of people. Let’s first finish that. Then we get to all your\u00a0fantasies in America,” he said.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Saudi King is the world\u2019s wealthiest person, by far: he owns the Saudi government, which owns Saudi Aramco, which has oil reserves of 260 million barrels, which at $40\/barrel, is, alone, a trillion dollars; and that\u2019s just for starters<\/span><\/a>. And it doesn\u2019t include the purely private wealth of people such as Prince Bandar, or of\u00a0Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al Saud<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the latter of whom is among the top stockholders both in Rupert Murdoch\u2019s News Corp. and in Citigroup (and in other large corporations). So, with that trillionaire King and those billionaire Princes, \u201chuman rights is a luxury Saudi Arabia cannot afford.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And here\u2019s something else that Bandar Bush said there:<\/span><\/p>\n

“In a Western democracy, you lose touch with your people, you lose elections,” Prince Bandar said. “In a monarchy, you lose\u00a0your head.”<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

So: the reason why Bush\u2019s (and much of the rest of the U.S. aristocracy\u2019s) buddy, Prince Bandar, doesn\u2019t want democracy in Saudi Arabia, is that it\u2019s a monarchy and each of the royals might therefore lose his head if his country were to become democratic. They want \u201cthe right to eat for a lot of people\u201d in their Kingdom, but not \u201call your fantasies in America.\u201d They need to build their own palaces instead. After they\u2019ve had enough of that (which will be never), the Sauds will allow in \u2018their\u2019 country \u201chuman rights.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This also is a reason why each one of the royals needs to pay heavily into the funds that the Saudi clerics \u2013 the most-fundamentalist of the clergies in any majority-Muslim country \u2013 designate as being holy, such as jihadist groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS, which aim to spread their religion throughout the world. This reason had its origin in the deal in the year 1744, that the fanatical anti-Shia cleric Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab and the ambitious gang-leader Muhammad ibn Saud (the founder of Saudi Arabia) made, which established simultaneously the Saudi-Wahhabist nation and the Wahhabist sect of Islam, which is joined-at-the-head with Saud\u2019s descendants.<\/span><\/a> This deal was the most clearly and accurately described in the 1992 U.S.-Library-of-Congress-published book by Helen Chapin Metz,\u00a0Saudi Arabia: A Country Study<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0(and the highlighting<\/b> of a sentence here is by me, not by Metz):<\/span><\/p>\n

Lacking political support in Huraymila<\/i> [where he lived], Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab\u00a0returned to Uyaynah<\/i> [the town of his birth] where he\u00a0won over some local leaders. Uyaynah,\u00a0however, was close to Al Hufuf, one of the Twelver Shia centers\u00a0in\u00a0eastern Arabia, and its leaders were understandably alarmed at the\u00a0anti-Shia tone of the Wahhabi\u00a0message. Partly as a result of their\u00a0influence, Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab was obliged to leave\u00a0Uyaynah, and\u00a0headed for Ad Diriyah. He had earlier made contact with<\/i> [and won over to his hatred of Shiia] Muhammad ibn\u00a0Saud, the leader\u00a0in Ad Diriyah at the time, and two of <\/i>[Saud\u2019s]\u00a0brothers had accompanied <\/i>[Saud] when he<\/i>\u00a0[in accord with Wahhab\u2019s hate-Shiia teachings]\u00a0destroyed\u00a0tomb shrines <\/i>[which were holy to Shiia] around\u00a0Uyaynah.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Accordingly, when Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab arrived in Ad Diriyah,\u00a0the Al Saud was ready to\u00a0support him. <\/i>In 1744 Muhammad ibn Saud and\u00a0Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab swore a traditional\u00a0Muslim oath in which they\u00a0promised to work together to establish a state run according to Islamic\u00a0principles.<\/i><\/b> Until that time the Al Saud had been accepted as\u00a0conventional tribal leaders whose rule was\u00a0based on longstanding but\u00a0vaguely defined authority.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab offered the Al Saud a clearly defined\u00a0religious mission to which to\u00a0contribute their leadership and upon which\u00a0they might base their political authority. This sense of\u00a0religious\u00a0purpose remained evident in the political ideology of Saudi Arabia in\u00a0the 1990s.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Muhammad ibn Saud began by leading armies into Najdi towns and\u00a0villages to eradicate various\u00a0popular and Shia practices. The movement\u00a0helped to rally the towns and tribes of Najd to the Al Saud-Wahhabi\u00a0standard. By 1765 Muhammad ibn Saud’s forces had established\u00a0Wahhabism \u2013 and with it the\u00a0Al Saud political authority \u2013 over most of\u00a0<\/i>Najd<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So: Saudi Arabia was founded upon hatred of Shiia Muslims, and it was founded upon a deal that was made in 1744 between a Shiia-hating fundamentalist Sunni cleric Wahhab and a ruthless gang-leader Saud, in which deal the clergy would grant the Sauds holy legitimacy from the Quran; and, for their part of the deal, the Sauds would finance the spread of Wahhab\u2019s fanatical anti-Shiia sect.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whereas the U.S. aristocracy want to conquer Russia, more than anything else, the Saudi aristocracy want to conquer Iran, more than anything else.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is how Saudi Prince\u00a0al-Waleed bin Talal al-Saud was quoted on this matter on 27 October 2015 in Kuwait\u2019s newspaper\u00a0Al Qabas:<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The whole Middle-East dispute is tantamount to life and death for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia\u00a0from my vantage point, and I know that Iranians\u00a0seek to unseat the Saudi regime by playing the\u00a0Palestinian card, hence to foil their plots Saudi Arabia and Israel must bolster their relations and\u00a0form a united front to stymie Tehran’s ambitious agenda.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The enemy, to Saudi aristocrats, isn\u2019t Israel; it is Iran. They hate Iranians even more than they hate Russians. In fact, Talal also said there: “I will side with the Jewish nation and its democratic aspirations in case of outbreak of a Palestinian\u00a0Intifada (uprising).\u201d Israelis hated Iranians as much as Iranians hated Israelis; and Prince Talal was welcoming Israelis aboard his mission to destroy Iran. So: both the Sauds and Israel are on the same side.<\/span><\/p>\n

George W. Bush continued America\u2019s war against Russia. On 29 March 2004, he proudly brought into the anti-Russian military club, NATO, 7 new members, all of which had previously been allied together with Russia in the U.S.S.R. and its NATO-mirror group, the Warsaw Pact. These 7 are: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Barack Obama continued that anti-Russia policy, on 1 April 2009, by adding Albania, and Croatia, and then by perpetrating a\u00a0coup in Ukraine<\/span><\/a>\u00a0which turned that country\u00a0rabidly anti-Russian<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and eager to join NATO. Obama also had the pro-Russian Libyan Muammar Gaddafi killed, and the pro-Russian Syrian Bashar al-Assad invaded by jihadists who are armed by the royal families of Saudi Arabia and Qatar.<\/span><\/p>\n

The friend of the Arabic royal families, Osama bin Laden, was ultimately sacrificed to the greater goal of the U.S.-Saudi alliance, which has been to eliminate the pro-Russian secular leader of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, and to provide (via 9\/11, etc.) the public hysteria that has successfully enabled dictatorial laws to be passed in the United States Congress, and, increasingly throughout the rest of the U.S.-Saudi Empire.<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, the U.S. military industries have recovered from their stock-market slumps prior to 9\/11, largely because of the success of the fear-Russia campaign, and of the increases in terrorism and the resulting public hysteria that enables a \u2018democratic\u2019 country to invade and invade so as to kill the jihadist fighters that \u2018our friends\u2019 the Sauds and other Sunni Arabic royal families actually finance.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Saudis became extremely angry at Barack Obama for his negotiating seriously with the Iranians. For the U.S. aristocracy, the target to be destroyed isn\u2019t Iran, but Russia. Obama represents the American aristocracy, not the Saudi aristocracy. Regarding that priority, the U.S. and Saudi aristocracies part ways.<\/span><\/p>\n

This has been a very productive alliance. Perhaps, when George W. Bush surprised and even shocked his CIA by sending them the message,\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re not quite ready to consider this. We don\u2019t want the clock to start ticking,\u201d he had already personally and privately discussed with his buddy Bandar Bush, how they might achieve the most important objectives of both the U.S. and Saudi aristocracies; and this was the plan that they mutually arrived at, well before the CIA had any knowledge of it. This seems to be the likeliest explanation of Bush\u2019s puzzling response there, back on 10 July 2001. And this explanation would also fit with other unexplained anomalies regarding 9\/11, such as that Building 7 of the World Trade Center was brought down by highly professional demolition experts in the U.S., and not by either of the two planes that smashed into the two main WTC towers<\/span><\/a>. (Building 7 contained offices of the CIA, Department of Defense, IRS, and SEC<\/span><\/a>; and there is no telling what possibly incriminating documents, perhaps even regarding the 9\/11 attacks, were lost in that demolition.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org A stunning news-report at Politico on November 12th, titled\u00a0\u201cThe Attacks Will Be Spectacular,\u201d\u00a0reveals that the then CIA Director George Tenet, and his anti-terror chief Cofer Black, say that they had told the White House this, but that the response coming back to them was \u201cWe\u2019re not quite ready to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":194285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[1022,115,30,5340,1037,59,753,8748,92,51,76,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-201059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-1022","9":"tag-barack-obama","10":"tag-big-brother","11":"tag-george-w-bush","12":"tag-interview","13":"tag-military","14":"tag-police-state","15":"tag-saud","16":"tag-terrorism","17":"tag-torture","18":"tag-warfare","19":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}