22/12: Osama Found: Anti-Bush CIA agents back his return

Written by Kazi Mahmood

WorldFutures

The CIA operatives, some high ranking military officers and democratic institutions in the U.S.A. does not want another Bush in the White House after 2008. One way of doing so is to point on the failures of the Bush regimes in hunting Osama. They are pushing for a change of regime in Washington.

Pakistan’s President Parvez Musharraf, attempting to win back support from the White House, has for the first time identified an area where he thinks Osama bin Laden may be operating. This revelation may cost Musharraf his life since information gleaned from recent CIA news stories reveals that anti-Bush CIA agents may be behind the plan to bring Osama back in the limelight.

Musharraf explained that terrorism was a problem only in three areas: North and South Waziristan and Bajaur. This prompted the interviewer to ask if he thinks Osama bin Laden was hiding in this area.

“No, these are settled districts. He could be in Bajaur – this is the tribal agency bordering Kunar province, where there were no coalition forces in the past,” he said. “On the Afghan side – that’s in Afghanistan,” he added

“So you can go from one side to the other,” asked the interviewer.

“That’s a possibility,” said the president.

Musharraf however said that it was Afghanistan’s problem if Osama was on the other side of the border. One of the reasons for the 42 days of emergency rule in Pakistan was linked to the possible mounting of an operation by the CIA to capture Osama or Al Zawahiry but the plans went into water with the refusal of the ISI and of the CIA to comply.

The US military was not sent in to battle the group for fear of massive losses of American lives. The U.S. fears the presence of Osama and his group during battles as this had proven to be very tricky for the Americans in the past.

It is also clear that the Bush administration was not really informed of the reason for the Pakistani army’s constant failures to deal with militants in Waziristan. Bush was not informed of the suspected presence of Osama in the region too.

“Does your intelligence service know where Osama is?” he was asked. “Nobody knows,” said the president.

The truth of the matter is the Pakistan intelligence service known as the ISI is not stranger to the recent flow of video’s and audio tapes from the Osama Bin Laden group.

The Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (also Inter-Services Intelligence or ISI) is the largest and most powerful intelligence service in Pakistan. It is one of the three main branches of Pakistan's intelligence agencies.

They were behind the Taliban during the Russian invasion and occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980’s and played vital roles in helping the Taliban run Afghanistan after the retreat of the Russian forces from the Muslim country.

The Pakistani ISI is working closely with the CIA and the FBI to track down a number of suspected Muslim Mujahideen sought by the U.S.A. after 911. However, not all the suspects are arrested for the simple reason that the ISI either covers their tracks or tip them before any raids by the Americans.

The CIA is today a divided organization which is leaking secret reports and information to the U.S. press in a bid to undermine the current leadership of America. The first such act was the scandal that surrounded the revealing of the name of a covert CIA agent. It is an offence in America to reveal the identity of a covert agent, an affair that shook the Bush administration in 2006 and led to the Republican Party defeat in the 2006 Senate and Congress elections.

The scandal was leaked by Stephen Hadley, the White House national security adviser. Some anti-Bush agents of the CIA had their hands in the scandal as well as in the persistent reports that the CIA did not approve of the war against Iraq.

Working closely with the ISI of Pakistan, the CIA has finally located Osama Bin Laden but refused to leak the information to the Bush administration. In the event the information was given to the White House, there would have been a major war on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border to hunt and nab Osama.

The hunt was instead headed by the Pakistani army – pushed by the ISI to mount attacks in the northern region of Pakistan – with the primary aim of countering the Taliban. The secondary aim was to find Osama or Ayman Zawahiri, the second in command in the Osama group.

The release of the Iranian Nuclear report by the CIA – leaked to a prominent U.S. newspaper – was another coup in which the anti-establishment agents mounted their attacks against Bush. Bush was on the verge of giving in to pressure for a covert operation in Iran to demolish Iran’s nuclear facilities.

The operations were delayed after the release of the CIA report that Iran had effectively closed its nuclear weapons plans in 2003. This was a slap in Bush’s face as well as a set back for its plans to demonize Iran and attack its nuclear centers. The CIA agents effectively gave an unexpected victory to the Iranians.

This time they are seemingly interested in helping Osama air his grievances – with the help of Al-Jazeera (Osama may be interviewed soon by the Arab channel) and with some top American newspapers which are fed up with Bush’s rhetoric’s and anti-Democratic policies.

The CIA operatives, some high ranking military officers and democratic institutions in the U.S.A. does not want another Bush in the White House after 2008. One way of doing so is to point on the failures of the Bush regimes in hunting Osama. They are pushing for a change of regime in Washington.

Osama is accused by the Bush administration as the master mind of the 911 events. A USD25 million tag (increased to USD50 million this week) hangs over the head of Osama and the bounty goes to any one who can lead to his capture.

The CIA is also giving the Bush administration a field day with reports of torture tapes destroyed by the agency to evade criticism. Democrats and human rights groups have charged the spy agency of disposing of the videotapes showing harsh interrogations of two Al-Qaeda operatives to hide evidence of torture -- a charge the CIA denies.

The tapes reportedly show the operatives undergoing waterboarding, a technique widely regarded as torture. But Mukasey himself refused to brand the technique torture in Congressional hearings in October on his nomination to become attorney general.

On the other hand, Channel 4 News in the U.K. claimed that Osama Bin Laden is a fan of the British football club Arsenal. The story was reported by Simon Kuper who writes for the Financial Times.

According to Channel14 News, in early 1994 Osama bin Laden spent three months in London, where he visited supporters and bankers and went to four Arsenal games.

Before returning to Sudan a step ahead of being extradited to Saudi Arabia, he bought his sons gifts from the club's souvenir shop. Later he told friends he had never seen passion like that of football fans.

”Bin Laden's career exemplifies the nexus between terrorism and soccer. But his love of the game didn't stop him trying to blow up David Beckham at its biggest event.” Channel14 News said.

Found but not captured, Osama is free to deliver his anti-Bush speeches on Al-Jazeera and other networks as long as the CIA, the Pakistan’s ISI and the American military feels he should do so.