Source: Real History Blog

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Scooter Libby's pardon begs the question of what he would have talked about had he been truly faced with prison. Whatever it was, it was important enough for Bush to grant Libby a last-second reprieve so he wouldn't have to go to jail.

I thought back to something I had tripped upon a while ago, something that involved Libby, which happened on September 10, 2001, the day before the twin towers were struck.

On the CNN site, in a timeline available from this page, I found this stunning entry:

SEPTEMBER 10, 2001  A CIA plan to strike at al Qaeda in Afghanistan, including support for the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, is given to the White House. Sen. Dianne Feinstein asks for a meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney. The California Democrat is told that Cheney's staff would need six months to prepare for a meeting.

When I read this, I was stunned on two levels.

First, read that again. The CIA was going to do BEFORE 9/11 exactly what it did AFTER 9/11 - strike at al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Since we hadn't been attacked yet, 9/11 provided a nifty justification for this plan.

NEW TARGETS: Syria + Iran in addition to Hezbollah (Lebanon) + Palestinian Resistance Saudi, Pakistan + others will follow if they resist

"All of us now, not just the Arabs and the Muslims, have much to fear because of what this coalition of crazed Jewish and Christian fundamentalist imperialists have done in the past and even more because of what they are doing in the present."

"From the White House to the Pentagon, from Foggy Bottom (State Department) to Langley (CIA)
to Ft. Meade (NSA), the Americans are intensely coordinating with the Israelis to take over the Middle East region as never before in modern history."

http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/aug1998/bomb1-a27.shtml

By a German correspondent
27 August 1998

A documentary broadcast August 25 by German public television presents compelling evidence that some of the main suspects in the 1986 Berlin disco bombing, the event that provided the pretext for a US air assault on Libya, worked for American and Israeli intelligence.