Osama Bin-LadenEssay Preview: Osama Bin-LadenReport this essayOsama bin LadenTerrorism is becoming more and more of a threat to Americans worldwide. One of the leaders of this revolution is a welthy Saudi exile, Osama bin Laden. He has proved genocidal by killing Americans throughout the world from the destruction of the World Trade Center to the embassy bombings in Africa. According to Newsweek, the FBI and CIA “[t]hough they had bin Ladens profile down cold, they still couldnt predict–or prevent–the Africa blasts, which killed more than 250 people” (Vistica 1). While the CIA and FBI have been tracking Osama bin Laden for more than four years, they still couldnt stop him from striking Americans abroad and cant stop him now after bombing Afghanistan back to the stone age.
— Osama Al-Ahmed, September 4, 2014
What’s Behind the Bombs?
Bin Laden’s “Paleo Man” and his “Gulf King,” in a nutshell, appear to be the results of the United States’ own covert warfare program. Some of the targets for the attacks were the United States-owned (US-financed) oilfields operating in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwaiti waters, and Abu Dhabi’s Suez Canal. Some of the targets were actually owned or funded by Saudi Arabia as a counter-terrorism operation against al-Qaeda.
We must remember that the United States and Saudi Arabia had an active relationship during the 1980s through an alliance of the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, which at the time was the crown of Jordan and the Saudi capital of the Kingdom of Jordan (though the exact origins of that alliance are not to be revealed). The United States funded, promoted, and trained the Al Qaeda affiliated, Al Nusra Front (all known by the nom-de-guerre al-Assad), in its efforts to recruit, equip and eventually execute the so-called New World Order.
The United States carried out these attacks and in fact facilitated many of al Qaeda’s attacks against the West, including several “blowback” attacks on American targets in Southeast Asia, which included at least one U.S.-run military base in Jordan.
During the first decade alone the Bush State Department, CIA, and American State Department contractors worked closely with the al Qaeda affiliate, the Taliban, to recruit, prepare, and attack the entire West. In fact many of these contractors helped direct the U.S. counter-terrorism operation against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Many of them worked directly with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan to launch the brutal attacks that destroyed much of the West. One of them is Saudi Bin Laden, a man he considers to be the godfather of Osama bin Laden’s “Paleo Man” persona. In order to obtain information from bin Laden and others, bin Laden was compelled to participate in an assassination conspiracy in which he was asked to remove the head of the Saudi Embassy and the head of Saudi intelligence in the West to the East. The plot to assassinate bin Laden was to involve the Saudi Embassy in North Africa in which it was wanted since the United Arab Emirates was “one of the key security partners” in the war against al Qaeda.
A brief excerpt from the CIA’s official cable, entitled, “Operation Paperclip-Terrorists: Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman Said” (November 6, 2014):
Al Nusra Front ( alSufiyah al-Aslam and al-Qaida) has targeted the United States Embassy in Amman , Jordan . The Jordanian embassy is controlled by al Sufiyah al-Aslam, an al Qaeda aligned sect in Libya. Al Nusra Front’s activities are based on a strategy of sending its fighters and leaders to the West and to Afghanistan ,
— Osama Al-Ahmed, September 4, 2014
What’s Behind the Bombs?
Bin Laden’s “Paleo Man” and his “Gulf King,” in a nutshell, appear to be the results of the United States’ own covert warfare program. Some of the targets for the attacks were the United States-owned (US-financed) oilfields operating in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwaiti waters, and Abu Dhabi’s Suez Canal. Some of the targets were actually owned or funded by Saudi Arabia as a counter-terrorism operation against al-Qaeda.
We must remember that the United States and Saudi Arabia had an active relationship during the 1980s through an alliance of the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, which at the time was the crown of Jordan and the Saudi capital of the Kingdom of Jordan (though the exact origins of that alliance are not to be revealed). The United States funded, promoted, and trained the Al Qaeda affiliated, Al Nusra Front (all known by the nom-de-guerre al-Assad), in its efforts to recruit, equip and eventually execute the so-called New World Order.
The United States carried out these attacks and in fact facilitated many of al Qaeda’s attacks against the West, including several “blowback” attacks on American targets in Southeast Asia, which included at least one U.S.-run military base in Jordan.
During the first decade alone the Bush State Department, CIA, and American State Department contractors worked closely with the al Qaeda affiliate, the Taliban, to recruit, prepare, and attack the entire West. In fact many of these contractors helped direct the U.S. counter-terrorism operation against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Many of them worked directly with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan to launch the brutal attacks that destroyed much of the West. One of them is Saudi Bin Laden, a man he considers to be the godfather of Osama bin Laden’s “Paleo Man” persona. In order to obtain information from bin Laden and others, bin Laden was compelled to participate in an assassination conspiracy in which he was asked to remove the head of the Saudi Embassy and the head of Saudi intelligence in the West to the East. The plot to assassinate bin Laden was to involve the Saudi Embassy in North Africa in which it was wanted since the United Arab Emirates was “one of the key security partners” in the war against al Qaeda.
A brief excerpt from the CIA’s official cable, entitled, “Operation Paperclip-Terrorists: Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman Said” (November 6, 2014):
Al Nusra Front ( alSufiyah al-Aslam and al-Qaida) has targeted the United States Embassy in Amman , Jordan . The Jordanian embassy is controlled by al Sufiyah al-Aslam, an al Qaeda aligned sect in Libya. Al Nusra Front’s activities are based on a strategy of sending its fighters and leaders to the West and to Afghanistan ,
— Osama Al-Ahmed, September 4, 2014
What’s Behind the Bombs?
Bin Laden’s “Paleo Man” and his “Gulf King,” in a nutshell, appear to be the results of the United States’ own covert warfare program. Some of the targets for the attacks were the United States-owned (US-financed) oilfields operating in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwaiti waters, and Abu Dhabi’s Suez Canal. Some of the targets were actually owned or funded by Saudi Arabia as a counter-terrorism operation against al-Qaeda.
We must remember that the United States and Saudi Arabia had an active relationship during the 1980s through an alliance of the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, which at the time was the crown of Jordan and the Saudi capital of the Kingdom of Jordan (though the exact origins of that alliance are not to be revealed). The United States funded, promoted, and trained the Al Qaeda affiliated, Al Nusra Front (all known by the nom-de-guerre al-Assad), in its efforts to recruit, equip and eventually execute the so-called New World Order.
The United States carried out these attacks and in fact facilitated many of al Qaeda’s attacks against the West, including several “blowback” attacks on American targets in Southeast Asia, which included at least one U.S.-run military base in Jordan.
During the first decade alone the Bush State Department, CIA, and American State Department contractors worked closely with the al Qaeda affiliate, the Taliban, to recruit, prepare, and attack the entire West. In fact many of these contractors helped direct the U.S. counter-terrorism operation against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Many of them worked directly with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan to launch the brutal attacks that destroyed much of the West. One of them is Saudi Bin Laden, a man he considers to be the godfather of Osama bin Laden’s “Paleo Man” persona. In order to obtain information from bin Laden and others, bin Laden was compelled to participate in an assassination conspiracy in which he was asked to remove the head of the Saudi Embassy and the head of Saudi intelligence in the West to the East. The plot to assassinate bin Laden was to involve the Saudi Embassy in North Africa in which it was wanted since the United Arab Emirates was “one of the key security partners” in the war against al Qaeda.
A brief excerpt from the CIA’s official cable, entitled, “Operation Paperclip-Terrorists: Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman Said” (November 6, 2014):
Al Nusra Front ( alSufiyah al-Aslam and al-Qaida) has targeted the United States Embassy in Amman , Jordan . The Jordanian embassy is controlled by al Sufiyah al-Aslam, an al Qaeda aligned sect in Libya. Al Nusra Front’s activities are based on a strategy of sending its fighters and leaders to the West and to Afghanistan ,
Bin Laden is a wealthy Saudi exile who has had his citizenship revoked. He feels that all Christians and Jews worldwide need to be exterminated because of the evil that they represent. He thinks that the Jihad is necessary to combat the Christians and Jews who are considered the heretics of the world; therefore, it is justified to use terrorism to exterminate them because of their degraded moral standards and also to raise the Muslim world over the Christian world. To accomplish his goals of eliminating all Christians and Jews, he founded the International Front for Jihad against the Jews and the Crusaders. This organization this year, published a “fatwa” (religious ruling) proclaiming the “Jihad against the heretics who conquer Muslim lands,” which bin Laden considers a duty of all Muslims (Schweiter 1). Bin Laden was trained and equipped by the CIA during the Afghan War of 1979-89, so he is very capable of carrying out his goals. He also has had the money to continue funding these operations that have proved to be deadly to Americans throughout the world.
The special station that was created over two years ago by the governments counterterrorist centers has not been successful in disrupting bin Ladens operations. Even though the FBI and the CIA has had an increase in funding especially in the FBIs funds from $118 million to $286 million today and has had its number of employees devoted to this area doubled over the same period of time, the Washington Post asserts that the CIA despite this increase in funding resulting in more attention being paid to bin Laden that it “was not able to foresee the bombings of two U.S. embassies,” four months ago “in East Africa, allegedly by bin Laden operatives ” (Loeb 2,1).
In May 1997, CIA Director George J. Tenet told the Senate Apporpriations Committee that the CIA was ready for the war against terrorism; however, he was wrong. Terrorism expert and former CIA official Vincent M. Cannistraro, who from 1988 to 1990 served as the Counterterrrorist Centers director of operations and analysis, wonders “why the CIA, having pursued bin Laden for years, was unable to prevent the attacks Aug. 7 against the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 12 Americans and 250 Kenyans and wounded hundreds of others in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.” He said puzzled, “[if] you were so on top of Osama, why didnt you see that coming? Given the kind of focus, you have bin Laden carrying out operations at two embassies–I would not find that occasion to brag,” as the CIA has done about arresting 40 alleged terrorist operatives many with bin Laden ties (Loeb 3,1). Newsweek depicted a CIA that knew everything about bin Ladens profile but still couldnt predict the African blasts (Vistica 1).
The cruise-missile strikes that were launched against bin Laden will prove ineffective in stopping his terrorist operation. Though the American counterstrikes may have admonished bin Laden, his vast financial resources and network will remain intact (Loeb 4). The thing that bin Laden still has is his vast wealth regardless of what damage was inflicted on his operation by the cruise-missile strikes. Bin Laden has his resources hidden in several countries in what many call front companies, and this is going to make it difficult to track down bin Ladens assests some government officials worry (“Costly” 6)(Kelley 2). Cannistraro said, “while weve aggressively targeted his financial flows of money, which is the lifeblood of the organization a lot of it is still out of reach. Were not going to be able to put him out of business” (Kelley 2).
After such strikes against bin Laden, it is important to understand what consequences have occurred and could occur because of the American strikes. The first factor of a terrorist attack is the terrorists motivation to carry