
November 28, 2001: A US
Special Forces soldier stationed in Fayetteville, North Carolina later (anonymously)
claims that the US had bin Laden pinned in a certain Tora Bora cave on this day,
but failed to act. On the same day this story is reported, the media also
reports a recent spate of strange deaths at the same military base in
Fayetteville. Five soldiers and their wives have all died since June, 2002 in
apparent murder-suicides. All five soldiers had recently returned from
Afghanistan, at least three were special forces. [Independent, 8/2/02 ]
late November, 2001: The
Telegraph later reports on the battle for Tora Bora: " Eyewitnesses express
shock that the US pinned in Taliban and al-Qaeda forces... on three sides only,
but left the route to Pakistan open. "The border with Pakistan was the key, but
no one paid any attention to it. When the battle was over, only 21 bedraggled
al-Qaeda fighters were captured. [Telegraph, 2/23/02]
December 4, 2001: Convicted
drug lord and opium kingpin Ayub Afridi is recruited by the US government to
help establish control in Afghanistan by unifying various Pashtun warlords. The
former opium smuggler, who was one of the CIA's leading assets in the war
against the Russians, is released from prison in order to do this. [Asia Times,
12/4/01]
December 13, 2001: The
US releases a video of bin Laden that seems to confirm the role of bin Laden in
the 9/11 attack -save for a number of discrepancies, the most important of which
appears to be that the person in the video just plain doesn't look like him,
especially in the nose.[http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/completetimeline/people/twoosamas.jpg]
December 30, 2001: The
new Afghan Interior Minister Younis Qanooni claims that the ISI helped bin Laden
escape from Afghanistan: "Undoubtedly they (ISI) knew what was going on." He
claims that the ISI is still supporting bin Laden even if Pakistani president
Musharraf wasn't. [BBC, 12/30/01]
God
equals; oil, gold and drugs
