expounds on it further.
Janis
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From: Steve Beckow
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 1:25 PM
Osama bin Laden, aka "Tim Osman"There is so much evidence that points to
everything being said about Osama bin Laden at this time being a charade
that I have to apologize for giving so much of it here and thereby taxing
your patience.
Very little of what's being said is true.
Osama bin Laden probably played no role at all in the commission of the acts
of terror on Sept. 11, 2011 but he undoubtedly did play a major role in the
cover-up story designed to hide the guilt of the real culprits of 9/11, who
include President George H.W. Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Let's start in July 2001, when bin Laden was convalescing in a Dubai
Hospital for kidney disease. At the time, he was wanted for the deaths of
Americans in the Kenyan embassy bombing, Yet, though wanted, bin Laden was
visited by a top CIA official. According to Le Figaro:
"Dubai... was the backdrop of a secret meeting between Osama bin Laden and
the local CIA agent in July [2001]. A partner of the administration of the
American Hospital in Dubai claims that 'public enemy number one' stayed at
this hospital between the 4th and 14th of July. While he was hospitalized,
bin Laden received visits from many members of his family as well as
prominent Saudis and Emiratis. During the hospital stay, the local CIA
agent, known to many in Dubai, was seen taking the main elevator of the
hospital to go [up] to bin Laden's hospital room.
"A few days later, the CIA man bragged to a few friends about having visited
bin Laden. Authorized sources say that on July 15th, the day after bin Laden
returned to Quetta [Pakistan], the CIA agent was called back to
headquarters. In the pursuit of its investigations, the FBI discovered
'financing agreements' that the CIA had been developing with its 'Arab
friends' for years. The Dubai meeting is, so it would seem, within the logic
of 'a certain American policy.'" (1)
Nothing resulted from the visit of the station chief. No assassin visited
the hospital to dispatch bin Laden. He wasn't poisoned or taken out by other
covert means. He wasn't kidnapped. The Dubai authorities did not detain
him. No press coverage was given to his hospital stay. Not a word was leaked
to the press or, if it was, it was not allowed to reach the pubic.
A tape of bin Laden was played after 9/11 in which he was heard to be
confirming the destruction of the World Trade Center buildings. The
implication is that he was in a cave in Afghanistan, if not directing
affairs then at least receiving news of them.
But at the very moment the events of 9/11 were taking place, bin Laden was
probably in another hospital in Rawalpindi, run by the Pakistani army no
less, having kidney dialysis. He had been in dialysis on Sept. 10 so it was
probable that he'd have either been having dialysis on Sept. 11 or
recuperating. Here is CBS's Dan Rather reporting that development:
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DAN RATHER, CBS ANCHOR: As the United states and its allies in the war on
terrorism press the hunt for Osama bin Laden, CBS News has exclusive
information tonight about where bin Laden was and what he was doing in the
last hours before his followers struck the United States September 11.
This is the result of hard-nosed investigative reporting by a team of CBS
news journalists, and by one of the best foreign correspondents in the
business, CBS`s Barry Petersen. Here is his report.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) BARRY PETERSEN, CBS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Everyone
remembers what happened on September 11. Here`s the story of what may have
happened the night before. It is a tale as twisted as the hunt for Osama bin
Laden.
CBS News has been told that the night before the September 11 terrorist
attack, Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan. He was getting medical treatment
with the support of the very military that days later pledged its backing
for the U.S. war on terror in Afghanistan.
Pakistan intelligence sources tell CBS News that bin Laden was spirited into
this military hospital in Rawalpindi for kidney dialysis treatment. On that
night, says this medical worker who wanted her identity protected, they
moved out all the regular staff in the urology department and sent in a
secret team to replace them. She says it was treatment for a very special
person. The special team was obviously up to no good.
"The military had him surrounded," says this hospital employee who also
wanted his identity masked, "and I saw the mysterious patient helped out of
a car. Since that time," he says, "I have seen many pictures of the man. He
is the man we know as Osama bin Laden. I also heard two army officers
talking to each other. They were saying that Osama bin Laden had to be
watched carefully and looked after." Those who know bin Laden say he suffers
from numerous ailments, back and stomach problems. Ahmed Rashid, who has
written extensively on the Taliban, says the military was often there to
help before 9/11.
AHMED RASHID, TALIBAN EXPERT: There were reports that Pakistani intelligence
had helped the Taliban buy dialysis machines. And the rumor was that these
were wanted for Osama bin Laden.
PETERSEN (on camera): Doctors at the hospital told CBS News there was
nothing special about that night, but they refused our request to see any
records. Government officials tonight denied that bin Laden had any medical
treatment on that night.
(voice-over): But it was Pakistan`s President Musharraf who said in public
what many suspected, that bin Laden suffers from kidney disease, saying he
thinks bin Laden may be near death. His evidence, watching this most recent
video, showing a pale and haggard bin Laden, his left hand never moving.
Bush administration officials admit they don`t know if bin Laden is sick or
even dead.
DONALD RUMSFELD, DEFENSE SECRETARY: With respect to the issue of Osama bin
Laden`s health, I just am -- don`t have any knowledge.
PETERSEN: The United States has no way of knowing who in Pakistan`s military
or intelligence supported the Taliban or Osama bin Laden maybe up to the
night before 9/11 by arranging dialysis to keep him alive. So the United
States may not know if those same people might help him again perhaps to
freedom.
Barry Petersen, CBS News, Islamabad.
(END VIDEOTAPE) END (2)
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Of this incident, the video Loose Change reports:
"September 10, 2001. … In Pakistan, at a military hospital, all the
urologists are replaced by a special team, in order to host their guest of
honor, Osama bin Laden, who is carefully escorted inside to be watched
carefully and looked after." (3)
And University of Ottawa Professor Michelle Chossudovsky refers to the
story:
"It should be noted, that the hospital is directly under the jurisdiction of
the Pakistani Armed Forces, which has close links to the Pentagon. U.S.
military advisers based in Rawalpindi. work closely with the Pakistani Armed
Forces. Again, no attempt was made to arrest America's best known fugitive,
but then maybe bin Laden was serving another 'better purpose.' Rumsfeld
claimed at the time that he had no knowledge regarding Osama's health. (see
CBS transcript above)." (4)
In the first news reports of the plane downed near Camp David, a part of
9/11 that was quickly covered up, CBS News reported that bin Laden was tied
to the Carlyle Group, which George H.W. Bush figured so prominently in.
"[Onscreen display for CBS News video covering an alleged plane down at Camp
David:
“'… the work of TERRORISTS!'
“'…the work of Osama bin Laden!'
"Who is tied to Carlyle Group…
"…Bush family! (5)
Members of the bin Laden family met with the Carlyle Group before leaving
the United States. They were allowed to depart unopposed, one of the only
planes known to be given permission to leave, and all word of any of these
events was ignored by the 9/11 Commission.
"The 9/11 investigations made light of the "Bin Laden Airlift" during the
no-fly period, and ignored the long-standing Bush family business ties to
the Bin Ladin family fortune. (A company in which both families held
interests, the Carlyle Group, was holding its annual meeting on September
11th, with George Bush Sr., James Baker, and two brothers of Osama Bin Ladin
in attendance.)" (6)
Pakistani ISI General Mahmud Ahmad was alleged to have visited Washington
and picked up $100,000 to be paid to Mohammed Atta for his services,
according to 9/11Truth.org.
"Q: Why did the Bush administration cover up the fact that the head of the
Pakistani intelligence agency was in Washington the week of 9/11, and
reportedly had $100,000 wired to Mohamed Atta, considered the ringleader of
the hijackers?
"A: By following the money, such payments would necessarily lead directly
to the principals who financed the entire operation, e.g. Mossad, CIA, and
their co-conspirators in the Pentagon, including of course at least 94 paid
spies who had previously infiltrated the ground crews at Dulles and National
airports by violating immigrations laws and falsifying Social Security
applications. (7)
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney asked Congress about the matter in 2007 but
received no satisfaction.
"What about the terrorist Omar Said Sheikh? ... According to Indian
intelligence, this man received orders from a Pakistani General to transfer
$100,000 to Mohammed Atta. People all over the world are talking about this
story. But not a word about it in the Report." (8)
According to former U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Leo Wanta, FBI and CIA agents
met with an associate of Osama bin Laden a month after 9/11, resulting in
... commendations? No. It resulted in Wanta being kept under house arrest,
prevented from testifying before Congress.
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"According to an internal memo sent to Vice President Richard Cheney from
former U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Leo Wanta, an FBI special agent-in-charge
and a CIA intelligence contractor met with an associate of Osama bin Laden
(OBL) in Manila, Philippines 30 days after the September 11 attacks on the
World Trade Center.
"Under standard chain-of-custody procedures regarding the sensitive document
with evidence directly related to the 9-11 attacks, Cheney would have passed
it on to then National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice who would have
delivered the memo to President Bush, according to intelligence sources
familiar with the document.
"An individual with knowledge of the meetings told TomFlocco.com that
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has been in possession of the
explosive memo which provides evidence that Cheney knew FBI and CIA
officials met with one of bin Laden’s associates in the days following
September 11.
"Given Fitzgerald’s awareness of the memo, serious questions are raised for
the grand jury as to why FBI and CIA officials, ostensibly representing the
U.S. government, were meeting with a bin Laden lieutenant important enough
to be shown with the “terrorist” leader in a White House-produced video not
long after the attacks—but also why Cheney and Bush have not publicized the
memo which names the agents and why Congress continues to cover up the memo’
s existence.
"The document names FBI special agent-in-charge Robert Wachtel and CIA
intelligence contractor Brad Lee as being present and “in close contact
with” a person identified as Datu ben Abu. [Abu is also a Russian KGB agent
according to knowledgeable intelligence sources.]
"The Wanta-Cheney memo revealed that U.S. Asia intelligence operations
advised that Datu ben Abu was “in a wheel chair” and 'in observing the video
[Bush administration cable news “terror” video] recently released of OBL,
intel op is of the opinion that the man against the wall with the blanket
over his legs, full face beard, large hands, wide nose and dark set eyes is
the same person identified as Datu ben Abu.'
"When we last talked with Ambassador Wanta, he was being held under house
arrest by the Bush administration.
"Wanta has not testified before Congress while the White House is reportedly
keeping him away from increasingly inquisitive Democratic senators who are
currently feeling constituent pressure to do their job regarding justice and
accountability, given the recent publicity and indictment of Cheney’s
chief-of staff, I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby.
"It is not known whether Wanta has already testified before Patrick
Fitzgerald and the grand jury.
"The memo revealed that 'Datu ben Abu held further meetings (during the same
time period—30 days after 9-11) with a Russian group staying at the Pan
Pacific Hotel Metro Manila Philippines,' providing telltale evidence of some
Russian involvement which Congress and the Bush administration have thus far
held in confidence.
"Congress is also covering up the fact that Osama bin Laden is a former U.S.
intelligence contractor. [ Click here to view an internal memo indicating
“previous U.S. government field reports on file and fully documented”
regarding “Tim Osman and Ralph Olberg / U.S. Department of State—Afghanistan
desk, et. al., Visitation with U.S. government public officials [Osman =
Usama/Osama bin Laden/OBL” ]
"Besides raising serious questions as to why Congress is not explaining
Osama bin Laden’s past U.S. intelligence operative background and how this
former—or current—relationship is related to the terrorist attack on the
World Trade Center, the memo also alludes to the sale of U.S. stinger
missiles to Iraq prior to Gulf War I.
"That Congress has continually misled the American people by failing to
require Bush and Cheney to explain why FBI and CIA officials met with bin
Laden operatives after the 9-11 attacks and why they obstructed justice
during the 9-11 investigation may be linked to the “sealed files protected
by national security” that Patrick Fitzgerald entered into the court record
along with his Scooter Libby indictments last Friday." (9)
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Here is Benazir Bhutto saying that bin Laden was killed back in late
2001/early 2002 by Omar Shaikh. Go to the 2:16 mark. The comment may have
cost her her life. American troops may not have killed Osama bin Laden but
CIA black operatives probably killed Benazir Bhutto.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnychOXj9Tg[/youtube]
The CIA unit hunting bin Laden was disbanded in 2006. Why would it be
disbanded if bin Laden remained alive?
"A CIA unit that had hunted for Usama bin Laden and his top deputies for a
decade has been disbanded, according to a published report. Citing unnamed
intelligence officials, The New York Times reported Tuesday that the unit,
known as "Alec Station," was shut down late last year. The decision to close
the unit, which predated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was first reported
Monday by National Public Radio." (Source Associated Press, July 4, 2006)"
(10)
I remember during President Bush's tenure hearing that Congress had upped
the reward for bin Laden, news which President Bush greeted with what
appeared to me to be diffidence. I could not fathom at the time why he would
be so uninterested in the news, but the answer probably was that he knew bin
Laden had died years before. Of this lack of concern, David Ray Griffin
wrote:
"After 9/11, when America was reportedly trying to get bin Laden 'dead or
alive,' the US military evidently allowed him to escape on at least four
occasions, the last one being the 'battle of Tora Bora,' which the London
Telegraph labeled 'a grand charade.' Shortly thereafter, Bush said: 'I don't
know where he [bin Laden] is. . . . I just don't spend that much time on
him. . . . I truly am not that concerned about him.' (Sometimes the truth
slips out.)" (11)
The FBI never charged bin Laden with 9/11. Said Dr. David Ray Griffin:
"When Rex Tomb, the FBI’s chief of investigative publicity, was asked why
the bureau’s website on “Usama bin Laden” does not list 9/11 as one of the
terrorist acts for which he is wanted, he replied: '[T]he FBI has no hard
evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.'” (12)
My guess why they never charged him was because they would have had to
convene a grand jury and produce evidence and that would have meant risking
exposing the whole sorry story of 9/11 - that it was an operation of rogue
elements in the American government itself, including Rogues-in-Chief George
Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld.
Here is the July 2007 FBI Wanted poster (13) relating to bin Laden.
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MURDER OF U.S. NATIONALS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES; CONSPIRACY TO
MURDER U.S. NATIONALS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES; ATTACK ON A FEDERAL
FACILITY RESULTING IN DEATH
USAMA BIN LADEN
Aliases: Usama Bin Muhammad Bin Ladin, Shaykh Usama Bin Ladin,
The Prince, The Emir, Abu Abdallah, Mujahid Shaykh, Hajj, The Director
DESCRIPTION
Date of Birth Used: 1957 Hair: Brown
Place of Birth: Saudi Arabia Eyes: Brown
Height: 6'4" to 6'6" Sex: Male
Weight: Approximately 160 pounds Complexion: Olive
Build: Thin Citizenship: Saudi Arabian
MURDER OF U.S. NATIONALS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES; CONSPIRACY
TO MURDER U.S. NATIONALS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES; ATTACK ON A FEDERAL
FACILITY RESULTING IN DEATH
USAMA BIN LADEN
Aliases: Usama Bin Muhammad Bin Ladin, Shaykh Usama Bin
Ladin, The Prince, The Emir, Abu Abdallah, Mujahid Shaykh, Hajj, The
Director
DESCRIPTION
Date of Birth Used: 1957 Hair: Brown
Place of Birth: Saudi Arabia Mahmud Ahmad Brown
Height: 6'4" to 6'6" Sex: Male
Weight: Approximately 160 pounds Complexion: Olive
Build: Thin
Language: Arabic (probably Pashtu)
Scars and Marks: None known
Remarks: Bin Laden is left-handed and walks with a cane.
CAUTION
Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998,
bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and
Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people. In addition, Bin Laden
is a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the world.
REWARD
The Rewards For Justice Program, United States Department of State, is
offering a reward of up to $25 million for information leading directly to
the apprehension or conviction of Usama Bin Laden. An additional $2 million
is being offered through a program developed and funded by the Airline
Pilots Association and the Air Transport Association.
SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS
IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS PERSON, PLEASE CONTACT
YOUR LOCAL FBI OFFICE OR THE NEAREST AMERICAN EMBASSY OR CONSULATE.
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| New York Field Office | Most Wanted Terrorists |
| FBI Home Page | FBI Field Offices |
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In her 2007 statement to Congress, Congresswoman McKinney said:
"Within days of the attacks, we were told that the perpetrators were from a
terrorist network known as al-Qaeda. When reporters and members of the
public asked for details, then Secretary of State Colin Powell promised that
it would be made all clear to the world in a White Paper.
"Nearly 4 years, and 2 wars later, we still have no official statement from
the Bush administration on the specifics of who did it, who aided and
financed them or what their origins are.
"For the families who suffered so much loss this surely feels like adding
insult to injury. They deserve to know everything that there is to be known
about how their loved ones died. They fought for an investigation that would
be non-partisan, independent, and that would get to the bottom of things.
But, as work got underway, not only did the Commission run up against
obstruction by the administration and non-cooperation from government
agencies, many, if not most of the commissioners themselves had conflicts of
interest. "(14)
In her judgment for the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan,
which found George H. Bush guilty of war crimes, Professor Ms Niloufer
Bhagwat said that it had never been established that Osama bin Laden was
responsible for 9/11.
"6. 11th September 2001 attacks in the United States had no connection with
Afghanistan .
"The prosecution has questioned the factual and legal basis of this
defense , submitting at page 17 of its Indictment that it is not
established that the 9.11 incidents were the acts of Osama bin Laden and
the al Qaeda ……..the letter to the Chairman of the UN Security Council which
the United States sent on October 7 ,2001 and another letter which the
United Kingdom sent of October 4, 2001 and the videotape released on
December 13 are inadequate as defences .Therefore the criminal activities
of Osama bin Laden and the members of the al Qaeda have never been
established enough to prosecute them for 9.11 incidents." (15)
I disagree with Ms. Justice Bhagewat in that I consider CIA agent "Tim
Osman" (aka Osama bin Laden) was in fact responsible too, but not in the
manner that the American administration says. He played a role in the
cover-up but not in the commission of 9/11.
In my opinion,we will one day establish in a court of law that George Bush,
Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and many other accomplices were in fact
responsible for 9/11 and the whole wall of lies will crumble.
Undoubtedly bin Laden is in a place now that he doesn't find agreeable, and
will be joined some day by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Co. I believe the
whole gang of murderers and thieves will be brought to justice. That
process would be speeded up if more people were prepared to open their eyes
to what I regard as the truth.
Footnotes
(1) http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/RIC111B.html
(2) Transcript of CBS report, see
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CBS203A.html; see also
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/28/eveningnews/main325887.shtml and
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO311A.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO311A.html
(3) Loose Change, downloaded from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E3oIbO0AWE, 15 Aug. 2007.
(4) Michel Chossudovsky, "Where was Osama bin Laden on 9/11? Bush
Administration knew the Whereabouts of Osama," 16 November 2003 (revised 17
November 2003), at http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO311A.html
(5) Probably not CBS graphics, but graphics of producer of video;
superimposed on CBS News footage, 11 Sept. 2001, seen in 9/11 Conspiracy:
Flight 93 Crashes at Camp David, downloaded from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ1u9_bdnf0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eprisonpla
net%2Ecom%2Farticles%2Fjuly2007%2F310707campdavid%2Ehtm, 1 August 2007.
"Osama bin Laden [was] a Carlyle Group associate of President George H. W.
Bush. " (9/11 Conspiracy: Flight 93 Crashes at Camp David, downloaded from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ1u9_bdnf0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eprisonpla
net%2Ecom%2Farticles%2Fjuly2007%2F310707campdavid%2Ehtm, 1 August 2007.)
(6) The Top 40 Reasons to Doubt the Official Story of September 11, 2001,
May 16 2006, downloaded from
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041221155307646, 31 July 2007.
(7) 9/11Truth.org, Answers to 9/11 Families’ Questions, posted 20 July 2007
at http://blogs.albawaba.com/post/2011/73057, downloaded August 6, 2007.
(8) Statement of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, former 6-term Congresswoman
from Georgia 1993 - 2002, 2005 – 2006; member of the House Armed Services
Committee and Member of the International Relations Committee, Patriots
Question 9/11, downloaded from http://www.patriotsquestion911.com/, 16 Aug.
2007.
(9) Tom Flocco, “Cheney knew FBI, CIA met with bin Laden lieutenant after
9-11,” TomFlocco.com, 2 Nov. 2005, downloaded from
http://tomflocco.com/fs/CheneyKnew.htm, 6 August 2007.
(10) “CIA Reportedly Disbands Bin Laden Unit,” ny9/11truth.org, downloaded
from http://www.ny911truth.org/, 11 Sept. 2007.
(11) David Ray Griffin in http://www.911truth.dk/first/en/faq.htm,
downloaded 19 Aug. 2007.
(12) Dr. David Ray Griffin and Rob Balsamo, “Could Barbara Olson Have Made
Those Calls? An Analysis of New Evidence about Onboard Phones,” Pilots for
911 Truth, 26 June 2007, downloaded from
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/amrarticle.html, 31 July 2007.
(13) http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm, downloaded 31
July 2007.
(14) Statement of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, ibid.
(15) Judgement of Professor Ms Niloufer Bhagwat J, International Criminal
Tribunal For Afghanistan at Tokyo, 13 March 2004, downloaded from
http://www.traprockpeace.org/tokyo_trial_13march04.doc, 30 Aug. 2007.
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Here is the official timeline for Laden....
* 1957 -- Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden is born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is the 17th of 54 children fathered by Muhammad Awad bin Laden, a Yemeni immigrant who built a billion-dollar construction company in Saudi Arabia. His mother is Hamida al-Attas, from Syria.
* 1979-- Bin Laden graduates from King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah with a degree in public administration and economics. He goes to Afghanistan to join the "jihad," or "holy war," against the Soviet Union. He remains there for a decade, using construction equipment from his family's business to help the Muslim guerrilla forces build shelters, tunnels and roads through the rugged Afghan mountains, and at times taking part in battle.
* 1980 - 1989-- Bin Laden raises money for the mujahedeen fighting in Afghanistan and also provides them with logistical and humanitarian aid. During these years, he also personally fights in battles against the Soviet Union.
1988-- Bin Laden founds a group he names al Qaeda, which in Arabic means "the base."
* 1989 -- The Soviet Union withdraws from Afghanistan. Bin Laden returns to Saudi Arabia to work for the family construction firm, the Bin Laden Group.
He and his orginization was very well organized....
* August 7, 1990-- Following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, U.S. troops arrive in Saudi Arabia in order to have a close base to eventually go after Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's troops. Bin Laden becomes outraged at the U.S. forces' presence near the Muslim holy sites of Mecca and Medina.
* 1991-- Bin Laden is expelled from Saudi Arabia by its regime. Eventually he and his followers relocate to Sudan, funded by assets that had grown to as much as $20 million, according to lawyers familiar with the family forture. In that African nation, al Qaeda begins to evolve into a terror network.
* December 1992 -- U.S. forces land in Somalia, spearheading a U.N.-authorized humanitarian plan to bring in famine relief supplies. Part of their challenge is disarming the various warlords who control the country. Prosecutors charge that bin Laden threw himself into the conflict, sending some of his followers to Somalia to train the warlords to fight the U.S. troops.
February 26, 1993-- A bomb explodes at the World Trade Center in New York City, killing six and wounding hundreds. Six Muslim radicals, who U.S. officials suspect have links to bin Laden, are eventually convicted for the bombing. Bin Laden is later named along with many others as an unindicted co-conspirator in that case.
* October 1993 -- Eighteen U.S. servicemen, all of them part of a humanitarian mission to Somalia, are killed in an ambush in Mogadishu. Bin Laden later says that some Arab Afghans were involved in the killings and calls Americans "paper tigers" because they withdrew from Somalia shortly after the soldiers' deaths.
* 1994 -- The Saudi government officially strips bin Laden of his citizenship, freezing all the remaining assets he has in the country. His family disowns him as well.
That same year, bin Laden is the target of an assassination attempt. Afterward, he strengthens his personal security detail.
In the following months, officials believe he funds and directs a series of attacks, including a failed attempt to kill Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and a 1995 suicide bombing at the Egyptian Embassy in Pakistan. Authorities now believe that this marked the early days of a growing alliance between bin Laden and other militant Islamic groups, including the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and its leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
* 1995 -- A truck bombing at a military base in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills five Americans and two Indians.
* 1996 -- Sudanese officials expel bin Laden from their country. He moves with his children and three wives to Afghanistan, where he receives support from the fundamentalist Taliban regime.
* 1997 -- In his first interview with Western media, bin Laden tells Peter Bergen -- now a CNN analyst -- that the United States is "unjust, criminal and tyrannical." "The U.S. today, as a result of the arrogant atmosphere, has set a double standard, calling whoever goes against its injustice a terrorist," he said in the interview. "It wants to occupy our countries, steal our resources, impose on us agents to rule us, and then wants us to agree to all this. If we refuse to do so, it says we are terrorists."
* February 1997 -- According to court documents, bin Laden orders the militarization of the East African cell of al Qaeda, a move that culminated in the bombing of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on August 7, 1998, eight years to the day after U.S. troops landed in the Saudi kingdom.
* 1998 -- Bin Laden's al Qaeda and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, led by Ayman al-Zawahiri, merge, according to U.S. prosecutors.
* February 1998 -- Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri endorse a fatwa under the banner of the "International Islamic Front for Jihad on the Jews and Crusaders." This fatwa, published in the newspaper, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, on February 23, 1998, states that Muslims should kill Americans -- including civilians -- anywhere in the world.
* May 7, 1998 -- Bin Laden associate Mohammed Atef sends Khaled al Fawwaz a letter discussing the endorsement by bin Laden of a fatwa issued by the "Ulema Union of Afghanistan" which termed the U.S. army the "enemies of Islam" and declared jihad against the United States and its followers. The fatwa is subsequently published in Al-Quds Al-Arabi.
* May 29, 1998 -- Bin Laden issues a statement titled "The Nuclear Bomb of Islam," under the banner of the "International Islamic Front for Fighting the Jews and Crusaders." In it, he states that "it is the duty of Muslims to prepare as much force as possible to terrorize the enemies of God."
* August 7, 1998 -- A pair of truck bombs explodes outside the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Some 224 people are killed.
* November 1998 -- Bin Laden is indicted in the United States on 224 counts of murder -- one for each death in the Kenya and Tanzania embassy bombings.
* June 7, 1999-- Bin Laden appears for the first time on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted fugitives list.
* May 2000 -- Muslim separatist guerrillas who seized 21 hostages at a diving resort in Malaysia publicly announce that they are being supported by bin Laden.
* October 12, 2000 -- Bin Laden is linked to the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, which left 17 U.S. sailors dead and another 39 injured.
* 2000 -- Algerian Ahmed Ressam pleads guilty in connection with a failed plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport during the millennium celebrations. He claims he was trained in urban warfare and explosives at a camp in Afghanistan run by bin Laden.
* May 29, 2001-- Four of bin Laden's alleged supporters are convicted of the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Africa.
* August 14, 2001 -- Bin Laden's last statement prior to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is given to Al Rai Al Aam newspaper.
* September 2001 -- Four U.S. commercial aircraft are commandered in flight by 19 hijackers. Two are flown into the World Trade Center in New York, another into the Pentagon just outside Washington, and the fourth, headed to an unknown target, crashes in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. More than 3,000 people are killed. Soon thereafter, the U.S. government names bin Laden as a prime suspect.
* November 2001 -- U.S. forces drop leaflets in Afghanistan offering a $25 million bounty for bin Laden.
* December 1, 2001-- Hazarat Ali, security commander for Afghanistan's Jalalabad province, reports there was a bin Laden sighting on November 27 in the Tora Bora region. Hundreds of Afghan fighters with U.S. and British Special Forces head to that area to launch a major assault.
* December 27, 2001-- Afghan officials report that bin Laden is in Pakistan, along with al Qaeda sympathizers.
* January 18, 2002-- Then-Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says that Osama bin Laden might have died of kidney failure in Afghanistan after becoming separated from a dialysis machine he had used in recent years.
* February 15, 2002 -- Reports go out to top levels of the U.S. government stating bin Laden survived the U.S. bombing assault on his alleged hideouts. They are vague and lack solid evidence that he could be near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, such as sightings by witnesses or interception of radio transmissions with his voice.
* March 9, 2002-- A Saudi-owned publication quotes one of bin Laden's wives, identified only as A.S., as saying she "feels deep down that he's still alive and that the whole world would have known if he had been killed. Osama's death cannot be hidden."
* May 17, 2002-- A Saudi-owned newspaper publishes quotes from fugitive Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar in which he states, "Sheikh Osama is still alive, praise God, and this is causing anguish to (U.S. President George W.) Bush who promised his people to kill Osama, not knowing that lives are in the hands of God."
* June 12, 2002-- A Russian newspaper publishes what it claims is an interview with Omar. The ousted Taliban leader states that bin Laden is alive in Afghanistan. "Osama helped us during the war with the Russians, he would not leave us now," the newspaper quotes Omar as saying. "The Holy War is only just beginning. The fire from this war will reach America, and it will burn the capital that launched an unjust attack on Muslims."
* July 2002-- Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor of the London-based Al-Quds Al Arabi newspaper, says the al Qaeda leader is in good health, but had been wounded in an attack on his base in Afghanistan in December 2001. Atwan says that bin Laden's followers had told him that he would not make more video statements until his group launches another attack on the United States.
* March 1, 2003 -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al Qaeda's "No.3 man" and the alleged planner of the 9/11 attacks, is captured in a raid in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He also had been linked to previous al Qaeda attacks and the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
* March 10, 2005-- Muslim clerics in Spain issue what they called the world's first fatwa, or Islamic edict, against Osama bin Laden. They call him an apostate and urged others of their faith to denounce him. The ruling is issued by the Islamic Commission of Spain, the main body representing the country's Muslim community.
* October 2009-- The book, "Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World," written by Najwa and Omar bin Laden, is published.
* December 2009 -- A U.S. government official admits a "lack of intelligence" on bin Laden's whereabouts, noting he could be in Afghanistan or Pakistan. Defense Secretary Robert Gates tells ABC that "it's been years" since there was good intelligence on the al Qaeda leader's location.
* January 29, 2010 -- A man thought to be bin Laden is heard on two audiotapes, released in the span of a week. On the first, he claims responsibility for the alleged Christmas Day attempt by Nigerian national Umar Farouk AbdulMuttallab to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane as it neared Detroit from Amsterdam.
* March 2010 -- An audiotape purportedly from bin Laden hints at retaliation if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is executed in the United States.
* October 2010 -- A message from someone thought to be bin Laden appears on jihadist forums urging Muslims to help people suffering from famine, floods, a lack of clean water and the effects of climate change. At the time, a U.S. official says that bin Laden has been in communication with al Qaeda affiliates within Pakistan and beyond, encouraging them to take more military actions.
Weeks later, a speaker in an audiotape -- purportedly bin Laden -- warns France to get its troops out of Afghanistan and not to oppress Muslims at home. "As you kill us, you will be killed," the voice says. "As you imprison us, you will be imprisoned."
* August 2010 -- U.S. President Barack Obama is briefed on a "possible lead" about the location of bin Laden. It is in Abbottabad, an area 30 to 35 miles north of Islamabad where a trusted bin Laden courier and his brother have been located. (After bin Laden's death nine months later, the president will reveal that intelligence agents pressed to get more information in the subsequent months).
* January 2011 -- A speaker claiming to be bin Laden warns French troops to leave Afghanistan -- or else two French journalists abducted by militants there could be killed. The man warns France that its alliance with the United States could prove costly.
In the subsequent weeks, U.S. authorities determine that there is "sound intelligence" that bin Laden is in the specific housing compound in northern Pakistan.
* March 14, 2011 -- President Obama chairs the first of a series of National Security Council meetings on a possible operation to target bin Laden. In time, he becomes more confident that the information on the terrorist leader's whereabouts is credible and that the operation can be accomplished.
* April 29, 2011 -- After more meetings April 12, April 19 and April 28, President Obama gives the final order authorizing the mission.
* May 2, 2011 -- In the early morning, "a small team of Americans" -- special operations forces, including U.S. Navy SEALs -- fly by helicopter into a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, according to U.S. authorities. During a 40-minute operation, bin Laden resists and is killed in a firefight, as were one woman and three other adult males, one of them believed to be an adult son of the al Qaeda leader.
That's the facts that I was able to find regarding Bin Laden and his orginizations timeline...