[imc-nyc-video] Fwd: Re: [Quaker-P] on halloween: something really scary

[k.skvorak]

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>From: dks <dks at MIT.EDU>
>Subject: Re: [Quaker-P] on halloween: something really scary
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>   k.skvorak wrote:
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>   > There is no doubt some misinformation out there, - but this
>   > particular question is an open one yet:  we know that Mr. Bin laden
>   > has had numerous meetings with US intelligence officers in the past-
>   > (an understatement)-  is it not every good American's Right to know
>   > when the last of these meetings were EXACTLY?
>   >
>   > are we afraid to know?
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>
>Can't answer your questions -- but you may find the following
>articles helpful.  They're from today's news wires: one is
>from _Agence_France_Presse_, one is from UPI in Paris, another
>is from UPI in Washington, and the last is basically from the
>CIA.  _Caveat_lector_.
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>
>Dhanesh
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>   Cambridge, Massachusetts
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>   | 
>   | 
>   |  Agence France Presse
>   |  Wednesday, October 31, 2001
>   | 
>   | 
>   |  Bin Laden underwent treatment in July at Dubai American Hospital
>   | 
>   | 
>   |  Paris, Oct 31 -- Osama bin Laden underwent treatment in July
>   |  at the American Hospital in Dubai where he met a US Central
>   |  Intelligence Agency (CIA) official, French daily Le Figaro
>   |  and Radio France International reported Wednesday.
>   | 
>   |  Quoting "a witness, a professional partner of the
>   |  administrative management of the hospital," they said the
>   |  man suspected by the United States of being behind the
>   |  September 11 terrorist attacks had arrived in Dubai on July
>   |  4 by air from Quetta, Pakistan. He was immediately taken to
>   |  the hospital for kidney treatment. He left the establishment
>   |  on July 14, Le Figaro said.
>   | 
>   |  During his stay, the daily said, the local CIA
>   |  representative was seen going into bin Laden's room and "a
>   |  few days later, the CIA man boasted to some friends of
>   |  having visited the Saudi-born millionaire."
>   | 
>   |  Quoting "an authoritative source," Le Figaro and the radio
>   |  station said the CIA representative had been recalled to
>   |  Washington on July 15.
>   | 
>   |  Bin Laden has been sought by the United States for terrorism
>   |  since the bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania
>   |  in 1998. But his CIA links go back before that to the fight
>   |  against Soviet forces in Afghanistan.
>   | 
>   |  Le Figaro said bin Laden was accompanied in Dubai by his
>   |  personal physician and close collaborator, who could be the
>   |  Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahari, as well as bodyguards and an
>   |  Algerian nurse.
>   | 
>   |  He was admitted to the urology department of Doctor Terry
>   |  Callaway, who specializes in kidney stones and male
>   |  infertility. Telephoned several times, the doctor declined
>   |  to answer questions.
>   | 
>   |  Several sources had reported that bin Laden had a serious
>   |  kidney infection. He had a mobile dialysis machine sent to
>   |  his Kandahar hideout in Afghanistan in the first half of
>   |  2000, according to "authoritative sources" quoted by Le
>   |  Figaro and RFI.
>   | 
>   | 
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>   | 
>   | 
>   |  UPI
>   |  Wednesday, October 31, 2001
>   | 
>   |  Bin Laden treated at US hospital
>   |  By Elizabeth Bryant, United Press International
>   | 
>   | 
>   |  Paris, Oct. 31 -- A CIA agent allegedly met with suspected
>   |  terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden in July, while the
>   |  Saudi underwent treatment for kidney problems at an American
>   |  hospital in Dubai, France's Le Figaro newspaper reported
>   |  Wednesday.
>   | 
>   |  Bin Laden reportedly checked into the American Hospital
>   |  Dubai, a 100-bed, acute-care general hospital, July 4 and
>   |  stayed until July 14. He arrived from Quetta, Pakistan,
>   |  accompanied by his personal doctor and a close aide --
>   |  possibly Ayman el Zawahiri, a leader of Egypt's Islamic
>   |  Jihad, now bin Laden's right hand man, the newspaper said.
>   |  Le Figaro cited a "professional partner" linked to the
>   |  hospital's management as its source.
>   | 
>   |  Besides a stream of local dignitaries and family members,
>   |  bin Laden's visitors included a local CIA agent, the
>   |  newspaper reported. The agent was widely recognized locally,
>   |  Le Figaro said, and later told several friends of the
>   |  meeting.
>   | 
>   |  The alleged American spy was called back to the CIA's
>   |  McLean, Va., headquarters July 15 -- a day after bin Laden
>   |  checked out, Le Figaro reported, citing "authorized
>   |  sources."
>   | 
>   |  Why bin Laden would have met with a CIA officer -- or vice
>   |  versa -- is unclear. Even before the Sept. 11 attacks on the
>   |  United States, the Saudi millionaire figured among America's
>   |  top terrorist suspects, blamed for several earlier plots
>   |  against U.S. targets, including the 1993 World Trade Center
>   |  bombing.
>   | 
>   |  But the French newspaper asserted CIA-bin Laden links
>   |  stretched back years, and appeared to suggest bin Laden gave
>   |  the agency information regarding future terrorist strikes.
>   | 
>   |  "The Dubai meeting is therefore a logical follow to a
>   |  "certain American policy," the newspaper said.
>   | 
>   |  In particular, the newspaper noted that just two weeks after
>   |  bin Laden checked out of the Dubai hospital, United Arab
>   |  Emirates security agents arrested the alleged mastermind of
>   |  a plot to blow up the American Embassy in Paris. The
>   |  suspect, a French-Algerian named Djamel Beghal, earlier
>   |  confessed to receiving his orders from bin Laden, according
>   |  to French news media citing his written confession.
>   | 
>   |  An American diplomat in Paris refused to comment on the
>   |  Figaro article, or on reported allegations of an emergency
>   |  meeting in Paris in August, between high level French and
>   |  American intelligence officials.
>   | 
>   |  "We're just not comment any of that stuff," he said. "We
>   |  can't talk about meetings like that may or may not have
>   |  happen."
>   | 
>   |  Le Figaro said bin Laden had serious kidney problems, and
>   |  reportedly had a dialysis machine imported to Afghanistan
>   |  last year. Citing a March 2000 report by Asia Week, the
>   |  newspaper said bin Laden's illness stemmed from "a renal
>   |  infection that has spread to the liver, and needs
>   |  specialized treatment."
>   | 
>   |  The head of the Dubai hospital's urology department, Terry
>   |  Callaway, reportedly refused to answer questions about bin
>   |  Laden's alleged stay. Radio France reported Wednesday the
>   |  American hospital has denied bin Laden was treated there.
>   | 
>   | 
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>   | 
>   | 
>   |  UPI
>   |  Wednesday, October 31, 2001
>   | 
>   |  Washington, Oct. 31 -- A CIA agent allegedly met with
>   |  suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden in July while
>   |  the Saudi underwent treatment for kidney problems at an
>   |  American hospital in Dubai, France's Le Figaro newspaper
>   |  reported Wednesday. Bin Laden reportedly checked into the
>   |  American Hospital Dubai, a 100-bed, acute-care general
>   |  hospital, July 4 and stayed until July 14. He arrived from
>   |  Quetta, Pakistan, accompanied by his personal doctor and a
>   |  close aide -- possibly Ayman el Zawahiri, a leader of
>   |  Egypt's Islamic Jihad, now bin Laden's right hand man, the
>   |  newspaper said. Le Figaro cited a "professional partner"
>   |  linked to the hospital's management as its source.
>   | 
>   | 
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>   | 
>   | 
>   |  Press Association
>   |  Wednesday, October 31, 2001
>   | 
>   | 
>   |  CIA DENIES CONTACT WITH BIN LADEN
>   | 
>   | 
>   |  From Tom Kelly, PA News in New York -- The CIA today
>   |  rejected claims that a US intelligence agent met Osama bin
>   |  Laden two months before the September 11 terror attacks.
>   | 
>   |  French newspaper Le Figaro said the meeting took place
>   |  between July 4 and 14, while bin Laden was being treated for
>   |  a serious kidney ailment at the American Hospital in Dubai.
>   |  Bin Laden was visited by members of his family and the local
>   |  representative of the CIA, a professional partner of the
>   |  hospital's administrative management told the paper.
>   | 
>   |  The agent was seen taking the lift to bin Laden's floor, Le
>   |  Figaro claimed. The paper said the CIA agent later boasted
>   |  to several friends that he had visited the terror suspect,
>   |  who at the time was wanted for the bombings of US embassies
>   |  in Africa and the attack on the destroyer USS Cole in Yemen.
>   | 
>   |  But the CIA said the report was "complete and utter nonsense".
>   | 
>   |  "Numerous comments in the media recently have reiterated a
>   |  widely circulated but incorrect notion that the CIA once had
>   |  a relationship with Osama bin Laden," said a spokeswoman.
>   | 
>   |  "For the record, you should know that the CIA never
>   |  employed, paid, or maintained any relationship whatsoever
>   |  with bin Laden."
>   | 
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