The Last Days of Bin Laden

by Nick Kollerstrom, PhD

In Orwell’s novel 1984, there is a figure called Emmanuel Goldstein who functions as an all-purpose
enemy - even though we gather, in the story, that he may have died some time ago. Osama Bin
Laden (1947 – 2001) has been used in a similar manner by the Powers that Be, through a process
of identity theft during the last days of his life. In reality there have been no sightings or reports of
him since 2001. I here argue that he died on or around December 16th, 2001, in consequence of the
intensive bombing of his then-residence the Tora Bora caves of eastern Afghanistan; and that he
had no involvement in the events of 9/11.

Osama Bin Laden - Warrior of God or CIA Asset? – somehow his life needs to become a film, a
transcontinental drama. But, any film company making such could expect a glowing future…. Far
safer, to make a film of the bogeyman we all know and fear – but, who never existed. The Sunday
Times in March 2007 had a nine-page article about where he might be lurking, and how oddly
enough no-one had been able to find ‘the world’s most wanted man.’ It gave not the slightest hint
that he might have died five years ago [1]. Pakistan was blamed, as if it could have hid him through
the years, even though he was six foot six in height and having a distinctive appearance known all
round the world. The article conceded that ‘the last positive sighting’ of OBL had been in the
December, 2001 US attack upon Tora Bora.

You might at this point like to consult a book review I did, concerning the speeches and videos
allegedly produced by OBL. Message from Bin laden. The view here advocated means that all of
these from 2002 onwards are faked. In the US Presidential election campaign 2008, McCain
promised that if elected he would find Bin Laden – nobody laughed.

The last months of Bin Laden’s life, July to December, are now crucial for world-history and we need
and we need to review them. In July 2001 he was residing for a week in an American hospital in
Dubai to treat his kidney trouble, as reported by the French paper Le Figaro. He had an operation on
the 4th [2] and he there met CIA station chief Larry Mitchell on 12th July {*} Many members of the
Bin Laden family came to visit him - ‘There goes the story that he’s a black sheep!’ was Mike
Ruppert’s laconic comment {*}. He flew off on the 14th in a private jet. We do not hear about Bin
Laden again until September 10th, when he reappears in a military hospital in Rawalpindi in
Pakistan – with some military protection - again for kidney dialysis [3].

On September 12th a Pakistani newspaper reported OBL’s first denial that he had been involved in
the event of 9/11http://web.archive.org/web/20010913191943/http://english.pravda.ru/acc
idents/2001/09/12/14910.html, then on the 16th OBL’s assistant Abdul Samad faxed a message to
the Afghan Islamic Press (in Islamabad, Pakistan) that was broadcast by al-Jazeera in Quatar {*}. In
it OBL declared, ‘I categorically state that I have not done this,’ adding that he had an agreement
with Mohammed Omar, chief Mullah of the Taliban in Afghanistan, that prohibited his involvement in
such political activityhttp://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2001-09/17/article17.shtml A week
later, on 22nd September he gave a longer set of replies to questions from the Pakistani newspaper
‘Ummaut’:

"I was not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States nor did I have knowledge of the
attacks. There exists a government within a government within the United States. The United States
should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; to the people who want to make the
present century a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity. That secret government must
be asked as to who carried out the attacks....The American system is totally in the control of the
Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States ... I have already said that we are not hostile
to the United States. We are against the system, which makes other nations slaves of the United
States, or forces them to mortgage their political and economic freedom {*}." [4]

On the 20th September, OBL was officially designated by President Bush as responsible for the
attacks. Then on 23rd Secretary of State Colin Powell promised that a paper would shortly be ready
with the supporting evidence. Although announced repeatedly, no such paper ever appeared [5]. A
letter by OBL of 24th September urges Muslims in Pakistan and Afghanistan to stand firm against
aggression from the ‘Crusaders,’ [6] and contains no hint that he might have been involved in the
event of 9-11, still less any approval of the notion of attacking America.

In mid-September the Taliban responded to US requests for OBL to be handed over, by saying they
would be happy to do so, if some evidence for his complicity in the 9/11 event could be produced.
(That may have been unwise, given that the UN Security Council had two years earlier passed a
resolution demanding that the Taliban ‘hand over’ Bin Laden, though without specifying to whom [7];
however, let us recall that he was regarded as a hero in Afghanistan for having driven out the Soviet
Union). After that request for evidence was declined, the Taliban offered on October 1st to give over
OBL for trial to an Islamic court in Pakistan - apparently with OBL’s
approvalhttp://www.zmag.org/Sustainers/Content/2004-10/13rai.cfm ; this proposal was vetoed by
Pakistan’s President. Days later, the bombs started falling.

On October 1st, Britain’s prime Minister Tony Blair averred: "I have seen absolutely powerful and
incontrovertible evidence of his [OBL’s] link to the events of the 11th of September [8]. "That
statement was presumably related to the UK Government’s ‘Bin Laden Dossier’ which appeared on
October 4th – a mere three days before the US/UK bombing began, of one of the poorest nations on
Earth. That dossier lacked any references for its didactic and unlikely statements. It was described
by the Independent on Sunday as ‘little more than conjecture, supposition and assertions of fact’ [9].
Only an ‘updated’ version of this document remains available to investigators {*} [10]

On November 3rd, after the war had begun, al-Jazeera released Bin Laden’s final major statement,
in which he viewed Afghanistan as the last in a series of ‘crusader wars’ {*} against Muslim nations,
and insisted that there was no evidence of any Afghan involvement in the event of 9/11. British MPs
would, I suggest, benefit from reading this statement.

The Real OBL

The Fake Video OBL

The centrally-important fake ‘Bin Laden’ video appeared in mid-November 2001, shown on al-
Jazeera television station, with the main character expressing approval of the 9/11 event and
apparently having some degree of foreknowledge. Although much of the tape was only semi-
audible, the Pentagon produced its English ‘translation’ on Dec
13th. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/29/1038386299712.html . The main figure of that
video did not even resemble OBL {*}, so it remains a mystery how media hacks were prepared to go
with such a story at all. That video was the only evidence the US ever produced, to justify its
bombing of Afghanistan.

Radio transmissions of OBL’s voice from Tora Bora were normally intercepted by four different
intelligence agencies, American, Pakistani, Saudi and Egyptian [11], up until 14th December 2001
when they ceased {*}. His funeral took place on the 16th in Pakistan, as reported in Pakistani and
Egyptian newspapers, at an undisclosed location {*}. A four-page will of his surfaced some months
later, dated 14th December http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/specialreports/jih
ad/s_99623.html . In a videoed speech of his broadcast 27 December, 2001, OBL declared,
‘Regardless if Osama is killed or survives, the awakening has started, praise be to God [12],’ and
that was his (posthumous) final broadcast.

A Valuable Asset

The Pentagon was able to produce that fake OBL video, without fear of OBL denouncing it, because
(I suggest) it knew where he lay, dying. Since then a series of ‘Bin Laden’ tapes has been fabricated,
to help the world live in fear. His image has been misused by those concerned to promote global
terror. A shelfload of untrue books linking OBL to 9/11 exist, of which Jason Burke’s Al-Qaeda the
true Story of Radical Islam is only the most recent. One would prefer to hear from some Muslim
researchers, in ascertaining the identity and life-course of this character, fully demonised by the US
and UK. Max Hastings wrote on 3rd Sept 2004 in the Daily Mail, ‘If Bush gets back to the White
house, more than any other man he will have Osama bin Laden to thank’ – too true!

Shortly after 9/11, the Independent informed its readers that ‘in late August, Mr bin Laden boasted in
an interview with the London-based newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi that he was planning ‘an
unprecedentedly large strike against the United States’ [13] and this was cited in Ahmed’s book as
evidence for Bin Laden’s fiendish intent [14]. I ascertained that nothing resembling such an article
had ever been published by that Arabic newspaper, which had never even conducted an interview
with him [15].

The National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland, apparently has the record of a phone call
made by OBL to his mother {*}. There cannot have been many phone lines out of the Tora Bora
caves, and did the persons who made this phone-tap record OBL’s preparations for the event of
9/11? [16].

The term ‘Al-Qaeda’ started to be used around 1997/8 as a designation for Islamic terrorist groups (it
means ‘the base’ in Arabic [17]). In 1998, FBI-led investigations of bombings of African embassies
started using this name [18]. These groups lacked any sort of insignia and have been well described
as a loose collection of groups and individuals that doesn't even refer to itself as "Al Qaeda." Most of
the affiliated groups have distinct goals within their own countries or regions, and pose little direct
threat to the United States’.

Thus there do not exist, or hardly exist, documents by members of such groups referring to
themselves as ‘Al-Qaeda’ {*} (although one would like to hear more discussion of this issue). The
BBC film series ‘The Power of Nightmares’ gave a compelling account of how the ‘Al-quaeda’ threat
was mocked up, because it is so important for the people to have something to fear {*}.

By 1998 the FBI had issued an arrest warrant for OBL in six countries (for his presumed involvement
in the Nairobi and Kenya embassy attacks of that year), and yet a British couple had the following
experience. Alan and Cindy Thompson ended up in the town of Zhob, Pakistan, after making an
unexpected detour, and stayed overnight. They left quickly the next day, after discovering that Bin
Laden was in town. They discussed their alarm and surprise with American aid workers, who told
them of a similar experience they had had in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where they had to move as
their offices were right next door to bin Laden. The Thompsons reported their discovery, but were
ignored by the FBI. Cindy stated: ‘We were gobsmacked. We found it incredible that we were
offering to give firsthand true information about the most wanted man in the world and the US
embassy couldn’t even be bothered to get off their butts…it is about time that this story is told to the
world to let the people know the truth…the hunt for bin Laden is a farce [19)]’

On the very morning of 9/11, George H.W. Bush met with Osama bin Laden's brother, Shafig bin
Laden, at a conference sponsored by the Carlyle Group in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington,
DC http://www.prisonplanet.com/041203metwithbinladen.html . Then the Anglo-American planes ran
nearly five thousand sorties dropping twelve thousand bombs on Afghanistan. To quote Meyssian:
‘The greatest army in the world, for its part, was unable to find the alleged Public Enemy No 1 it was
sent to arrest, while Mullah Omar escaped to Pakistan on a motorbike’ [20]. There a danger that the
real OBL will be lost in a mythologizing process - as the authorities may desire – so that we are left
merely with splintered and refracted images. In October 2004, the US Secretary of State Colin
Powell averred that the Pentagon knows where OBL is, somewhere in western
Pakistan http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/008263.php . Clearly, Emmanuel Goldstein is a
much-needed figure.

The Train moves On

Kabir Mohammed’s story http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn11012004.html confirmed how

indispensable OBL was as an enemy-image. In the year 2000, Taliban leaders, anticipating the
danger posed by OBL’s presence in their country, consulted Kabir as their ambassador over what to
do. He suggested OBL be handed over to the newly-established International Criminal Court in the
Hague, and he set up a meeting in August 2000 between Taliban representatives and EU official
Reiner Weiland in the Sheraton Hotel in Frankfurt, to ascertain in what way they could hand over
OBL. This offer was relayed to the US Government (which does not sound quite like what the
Taliban had asked for), who responded by appointing Kabir as an Afghan ambassador. In mid-
November 2000, the Taliban moved OBL and his henchmen to Daronta, 30 miles outside Kabul,
effectively placing them under house arrest. The Taliban placed him in this confined location, clearly
intending that he could be either destroyed by missile attack or arrested and deported. Delays and
procrastination followed during 2001, however, with US apologies for their inaction being repeatedly
sent. Then, suddenly, it was too late, and on September 15th Kabir was informed ‘the train has
moved on,’ and the options now were either the Taliban’s total surrender, or war. He resigned from
his ambassador role, and soon the bombs started to fall on his country.

Reading between the lines, the US did not want OBL handed over to an International Criminal Court,
where his open testimony could cause a lot of harm, but did want him stuck in Afghanistan, so they
could weave their story around him.

An Honest Cop, RIP

The one American who knew more about bin Laden than anyone else’, John O’Neill, was
investigating OBL’s alleged involvement in the bombing of the ship USS Cole {*}. He was the FBI’s
counter-terrorism chief, in its New York National Security Division office, his speciality being Islamic
terrorism. But, he became a bit too keen on the pursuit of OBL, and was warned off the case: in
November 2000 he was thrown out of the Yemen where he was investigating the Cole bombing,
then in August 2001 he fell victim to a framed character-blackening and was dismissed from office.
He was finally moved to a different job – in the Twin Towers [21]. He does not seem to have
appreciated that catching OBL was not quite the name of the game. Bin Laden was the Most
Wanted Man on Earth – and America wanted to keep it that way!
The FBI has not for some time viewed OBL as having been responsible for 9/11. Their website has
him as wanted for certain events such as the bombing of the USS Cole, but not for that! June 2006,
they officially admitted: ‘the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11’ So was the
bombing of Afghanistan a mistake then?www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?
context=viewArticle&code=20060917&arti cleId=3246

Identity Theft

On October 29th 2004, a macabre Halloween reappearance of ‘Bin Laden’ handed the US election
over to Bush. Two men drove up in a white limo to the Al-Jazeera office in Quatar that day and
handed the tape over, and it was broadcast two hours later
[22]. http://www.welfarestate.com/binladen/surprise/ The film {*} was highly blurred (NB, this link has
the whole video, with voice in Arabic). The actor who performed had different eyebrows from OBL
(see image below, compiled by Nico Haupt). Haupt wondered ironically ‘I am meanwhile interested,
where the ISI always get their stand-in actors for former CIA payroll buddy Usama Bin Laden’ (ISI
=Pakistan Intelligence Service) {*}. The lookalike figure who read the script has been little discussed,
but sounded like someone in a rather bored mood reading a speech. ‘One might have expected
OBL to speak in an animated way from the heart about the things he believes in, indeed an actor
would have performed in a rather more animated way, suggesting that this reader was chosen for
the coincidence that he is an OBL look-alike, even though he couldn’t act at all. He was clearly
reading a script. One saw him turning the pages. There was also an obvious cut in the recording’
[23]. It seems odd that Al-Jazeera would broadcast a program bound to exert a massive effect upon
the US election at such short notice, without first checking its authenticity.

The 9/11 Commission Report [24] wove a story about OBL quite incompatible with that told here.
Virtually all of its references are uncheckable, as they allude to FBI memos and the like which are
outside the public domain. It contains no quotes at all from OBL! Quite a few statements of his have
here been quoted or alluded to {*}, however not one appears in the pages of the Commission’s
Report, despite its extensive discussion of him. Its references include ‘interrogations’ of Muslims –
under torture, one assumes. I suggest that its account is largely fictional. Let us hope that some
attempt at real biography will be attempted, before this intriguing character vanishes down the
fractured hall of mirrors.

No, Mr Fisk

Robert Fisk’s doorstopper of a book came out in 2005, a central theme of which is his relation with
OBL whom he once met, and his ‘interpreting’ of each subsequent message. Fisk can fill a
considerably larger hall than can any British politician, and one would tend to assume he knows
what he is talking about on this topic. But, we are distressed to note that he always believes in the
from-beyond-the-grave OBL videos. In November 2002, a bin Laden video appeared, and Fisk
enthused:

‘I hear his voice. He is alive. It takes only a brief round of phone calls to the Middle East and south-
West Asia for my sources to confirm that it was Osama Bin Laden’s gravelly voice that is threatening
the west in the short monologue transmitted by the Al-Jazeera television channel’.

But, hang on – let’s quote the Islamic expert Kevin Barrett on this recording. The Pentagon’s fake
OBL of December 2001 had been widely ridiculed owing to the low-credibility ‘fatty Bin Laden’ who
was speaking, Barrett explained (‘and I have yet to meet an informed observer who considers it
authentic’), and therefore

‘the next “Osama from beyond the grave” message had no images—it was an audio tape delivered
to al-Jazeera in fall, 2002. The CIA verified it as authentic, and then got a rotten egg in the face
when the world’s leading voice identification experts at IDIAP in Switzerland reported that “the
message was recorded by an impostor.”’www.mujca.com/osama.htm

Computer voice analysis at the Perceptual Artificial Intelligence in Lausanne (commissioned by

France-2 television) demonstrated that the recorded voice differed from that of OBL, and ought not
the most eminent Middle-East journalist take note of this? Before being duped, Mr Fisk should have
allowed himself a longer time to ponder this crucial issue. This phoney message listed ‘the blows
struck at western powers since his presumed ‘death’ – a synagogue in Tunisia, the Bali bomb, the
Chechen theatre siege, and spoke of ‘our sons in Iraq.’ Tony Blair war right, warned Fisk [25]. No
wonder we had to bomb Iraq after that message, if OBL was intoning about ‘our sons’ in that
country. In fact, the Bali bomb was not done by ‘Al-Qaeda’ - though the belief that it had been
sufficed to get Australia into the Iraq war. For a true account of who planted it – which a journalist
like Mr Fisk might not have the time to listen to, especially since it only emerged about a year after
the event - viz., the fight-wing military, see:
www.rense.com/general68/NOTER.HTM and www.serendipity.li/wot/kutabomb.htm Thus even the
most gifted and discerning of journalists is obliged to remain within a consensus reality, where the
notion of a bogus ‘enemy’ sustained by a sequence of fabricated videos, is just too far outside that
consensus, and would scuttle a journalistic career.

We are gobsmacked that Mr Fisk even believes in the authenticity of the Pentagon-translated fatty
Bin Laden tape of November 2001 which turned up in in Jalalabad, owing merely to a phrase it used
which, he recalled, OBL had used to him some years ago - concerning the envisioning of the 9/11
event in a dream (p.1275). He might here pause to consider the miscasting of the holy month of
Ramadan in the speech, in a way that no Arab could ever do. ‘He [the Deity] will give us blessing
and more victory during this holy month of Ramadan’ chortled fatty Bin Laden (in the Pentagon’s
translation) with the video reportedly bearing a date-stamp of November 9th – while the month of
Ramadan only began a week later, on the 16th. Its forty minutes of rambling dialogue gave no hint of
the ghastly carpet bombing then going on around Jalalabad.

As Mr Fisk evidently believes that OBL has endorsed acts of terrible violence, let us turn back to an
earlier and more truthful analysis by Carol Valentine, based on a CNN interview with Bin Laden,
conducted by Peter Arnett and shown in March, 1997 www.public-action.com/911/hvideo.html . She
shows how this interview made clear that he was not concerned with the targeting of American
civilians: ‘we have focused our declaration on striking at the soldiers in the country of the Two Holy
Places.’ Bin Laden's goal, Carol Valentine concluded, ‘was to get US military forces out of Muslim
lands …. He just wants us to go away, much like we wanted the British to go away in 1776.’

In January 2006, Fisk is still pronouncing a new OBL audiotape as ‘almost certainly
genuine’ www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/48/17100). Even professor BruceLawrence,
editor of the book Messages to the world The Statements of Osama Bin Laden pronounced this one
a forgery, brewed up by the Pakistani ISI. Mr Fisk needs to meditate calmly upon the words of Kevin
Barrett: ‘Every “Bin Laden” statement since 2001 has been blatantly bogus.’

Contemporary evidence is not supporting the notion of Muslim hijackers as responsible for 911 {*}
[26], pointing more to a source within the US military, who devised the event themselves {*}, or
maybe with a considerable degree of Zionist collaboration. This issue has to be central in answering
the question: who was Bin Laden? Someday, truthful accounts of the 28-year old Arab who visited
US military bases as Tim Osman in 1996 may appear, but perhaps not yet http://educate-
yourself.org/cn/2001/riconosciutoandtimosman8nov01.shtm l … Those responsible for engineering
the event of 9/11 had to have some confidence over when OBL was going to die. He had to be in
Afghanistan and take the blame, he had to be alive when the country was invaded, but had to be
incapable of replying and indeed he had to fade away as the Pentagon’s bogus identity-theft video
was promoted around the world, loading the guilt onto him.

……………………………………………………………………………..
If the American people wanted to do something about terrorism, apart from using it as a pretext to
start wars, suspend the US constitution and surrender their hard-won democratic freedoms, then
maybe they should take seriously OBL’s words in a 1998 interview given to ABC television:

‘They (Americans) have put themselves at the mercy of a disloyal government, ... it is Israel inside
America. Take the sensitive ministries such as the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense
and the CIA, you will find that the Jews have the upper hand in them. They make use of America to
further their plans for the world ... For over half a century, Muslims in Palestine have been (by the
Jews) slaughtered and assaulted and robbed of their honor and of their property. Their houses have
been blasted, their crops destroyed…This is my message to the American people: to look for a
serious government that looks out for their interests and does not attack other people’s lands, or
other people's honor."

References

1 Christina Lamb, The Invisible Man, The Sunday Times Magasine ‘Who is hiding the world’s most
wanted man?’

2. This story was reported in Le Monde and The Guardian on 1st November (but denied by the CIA);
also by John Snow on Channel 4 News. Snow first confirmed the story with the British doctor in
Dubai who treated Bin Laden: Martin Summers, of the London 9/11 Sceptics.

3. Nafeez Ahmed, The War on Freedom, How and Why America was Attacked September 11, 2001,
2002, p.223; Thierry Meyssian, 9/11 The big Lie, 2002, p107.

4. This is concordant with a statement of his some years earlier: “We also have been hit with some
of the traces of this campaign as we were accused of funding terrorism, and being members of an
international terrorist organisation. Their aims in making these allegations were to place
psychological pressure on the Mujahideen and their supporters so that they would forsake the
obligation of Jihad and the resistance of oppression and American Israeli occupation of Islamic
sacred lands. However, our gratitude to God, their campaign was not successful, as terrorising the
American occupiers is a religious and logical obligation…As for their accusations of terrorising the
innocent, the children, and the women, these are in the category "accusing others with their own
affliction in order to fool the masses". The evidence overwhelmingly shows America and Israel killing
the weaker men, women, and children in the Muslim world and elsewhere…Then, killing hundreds of
thousands of children in Iraq, and whose numbers (of dead) continue to increase as a result of the
sanctions. Despite the continuing American occupation of the country of the two sacred mosques,
America continues to claim that it is upholding the banner of freedom and humanity, whilst these
deeds which they did, you would find that the most ravenous of animals would not descend to…As
for what America accuses us of, of killing innocent people, they have not been able to offer any
evidence, despite the magnitude of their expenditure on their intelligence services…Similar is our
history with respect to our differences with the Saudi regime: all that has been proved is our joy at
the killing of the American soldiers in Riyadh and
Khobar.” www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/LADIN.htm October 1996.

5. Meyssan 9/11, pp. 82,102.

6. R. Jacquard’s In the Name of Osama Bin Laden (2002) has just this one post-911 letter, p.258.

7. UN Security Council Resolution 1267, passed 15 Oct, 1999.

8. The Daily Telegraph, London, 1 October 2001.

9. For comments on untruthful information in this UK dossier, see Burke, Al-Qaeda p.17.

10. Earlier versions (cited by Meyssian 9/11, p.225) are no longer accessible.. Jason Burke
discussed this dossier, finding that eg its linking OBL’s name to the attack on US military personell
serving in Somalia was ‘almost certainly untrue,’ (Al-Qaeda, p.17). and it concluded: ‘the British
intelligence specialists must have known that the dossier they gave to the Prime Minister to reveal to
parliament and the British public to justify involvement in a major conflict included demonstrably
false material but felt the war in Afghanistan needed to be fought and the public needed to be
convinced of it. Painting Bin Laden as profiting from the heroin trade served the same purpose as
atrocity stories about Germans in world War One…’

11. Ahmed, War on Freedom,, p. 220.

12. Jason Burke, Al-QaedaThe true Story of Radical Islam, 2004, xiv.

13. The Independent, 17.11.2001 A.Gumbel, ‘Bush did not heed several warnings of attack.’

14. Ahmed, War on Freedom, p115.

15. Mr Ahmed Dabbur, at the London office of al-Quds al-Arabi kindly checked through their
archives; all their newspaper (in Arabic) is on the web.

16. OBL is alleged to have phoned his Mother on September 9th saying ‘In two days you’re going to
hear big news, and you’re not going to hear from me for a while’ (Ahmed, p.117). One wonders
whether these words are meant to be present in this phone call recording held by the NSA?

17. It was OBL’s name for his computer file, used while employed by the CIA in Afghanistan, to co-
ordinate the ‘jihad’ against the Soviet Union: Meyssan, 9/11, p.99.

18. Burke, Al-Qaeda ref 6, p.6.

19. Kenyon Gibson, Common Sense: A Study of the Bushes, the CIA and the Suspicions Regarding
9/11 Lebanon ASP 2003 p.201. The Thompsons are living in Lincoln.

20. Messyan, 9/11, p.125.

21. O’Neill emerged from the first Twin Tower inferno, then went of his own accord into the second
one to try and rescue people, where he met his nemesis.

22. ‘OBL’s October Surprise’ The Independent 31 Oct 2004, A. Buncoombe.

23. Comment by Noel Glynn, of London 9/11 Sceptics.

24. The 9/11 Commision Report, NY 2004, cites no authors or editors, only a list of Commission
Members with no hint of who they are or whether they are contactable.

25. (Fisk, The Great War for Civilisation 2005, pp. 1119-1121

26. David Ray Griffin, The New Pearl Harbour, Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration
and 9/11, 2004.

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