Tenet,George

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From an older GROUND ZERO Forum article, originally released at Scoop:

"Osama bin Laden and his global network of lieutenants and associates remain the most immediate and serious threat" George Tenet, June 2001 http://www.usis-australia.gov/hyper/2001-200207/epf304.htm There are more quotes about George Tenet's wish to start a war against the Taliban than one think. Tenet has had at least two different plans how to support a war against the Taliban for years. One plan was in the form of a National Security Presidential Directive, the other part of a 80 country attack plan, called "worldwide attack matrix" This is even no big secret. In January 2001 the Washington Post wrote about this plan. It includes "propaganda operations, support for internal police and foreign intelligence services, and lethal covert action against terrorist groups or individuals" http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A57969-2002Jun15 Only a few days after the attack on America, Tenet, who was in deep contact with DoD commander in chief, Henry H. Shelton met again and discussed again their "long-planned, ground and air campaign in all its precision, including the battle of Mazar-e-Sharif. Tenet's "Worldwide Attack Matrix" included already a war against Iraq. An important key player for the war against Iraq was Gen. Wayne A. Downing, the deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism, who has a large and expanding staff within the White House. Downing, a former commander of U.S. Special Operations forces, and the CIA are trying to identify individuals or groups that might fill a leadership vacuum if Hussein is toppled, sources said. Tenet was one of the strongest promoters for a war against the Taliban, which was already planned for October, long time before the Sep11th attacks.

George Tenet in June 2001: "Worldwide Threat 2001 terrorists are seeking out `softer' targets that provide opportunities for mass casualties. Employing increasingly advanced devices and using strategies such as simultaneous attacks... ...Osama bin Laden and his global network of lieutenants and associates remain the most immediate and serious threat...let me assure you that the Intelligence Community has designed a robust counterterrorism program that has pre-empted, disrupted, and defeated international terrorists and their activities what we have in Afghanistan is a stark example of the potential dangers of allowing states-even those far from the U.S.-to fail..." http://web.archive.org/web/20010425002133/http://www.usis-australia.gov/hyper/2001-200207/epf304.htm Many papers show what is going on in the White House right now and try to explain the information between the lines: "Members of the congressional committees investigating the pre-Sept. 11 warnings said ... that there is far more damaging information that has not yet been disclosed about the government's knowledge of and inaction over events leading up to Sept. 11." NBC too wrote about this war plan: "The plan dealt with all aspects of a war against al-Qaida, ranging from diplomatic initiatives to military operations in Afghanistan." The question that arises out of this is very simple: If the U.S. government had information, even of a general nature, before September 11 about al-Qaeda plans for an attack in the U.S., why didn't they reveal what they knew? Doesn't this show that actual evidence is irrelevant to the U.S. government, that their war actions are based not on justice, as they claim, but on the predatory aims and interests of their global empire? Woolsey,James, former CIA director and friend of George Tenet, pointed his finger at "state sponsorship," implying the complicity of one or more foreign governments. Can we analyse this as yet another freudian slip? Who is really the "state" behind the attack? How much did George Tenet know? Congressman Ike Skelton (CFR), a Democrat from Missouri and a member of the Armed Services Committee, claimed that Tenet warned before Sep11th, that there could be an attack, an imminent attack, on the United States of this nature. Skeltons statements can be heard at http://www.thememoryhole.org/tenet-911.htm Tenet received at least 8-10 warnings from foreign intelligence services about an attack and hasn't even denied this. What exactly was the reason for a nightly meeting and a breakfast with his former mentor, David A. Boren (ex-CIA director) between September 10th and September 11th? The pair met in St. Regis Hotel, three blocks from the White House and had a "leisurely breakfast" together on the morning of 9/11, when Tenet received the phone call about the attack. "Their omelettes had just arrived when Tenet's security detail descended with a cell phone" http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A42754-2002Jan26 http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,174655-4,00.html

Boren said in an interview with PBS, that both haven't been surprised of the attack: "The former head of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said Monday he and CIA Director George Tenet were not `totally shocked'" http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/terroristattack/intelligence2.html Boren already had Bin Laden and Iraq on the same afternoon "on the suspect list". David L. Boren currently serves as the thirteenth President of the University of Oklahoma. He served as Governor of Oklahoma from 1975-1979, was Senator from Oklahoma (1979-1994) and is the longest-serving chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence http://www.ndu.edu/nsep/Boren_biography.htm Moussaoui spent several months in Boren's own community of Norman, Oklahoma (a few miles away from Oklahoma City), where he had attended the Airman Flight School for three months in the spring of 2001. Another interesting coincidence, or did someone not do his homework? One might ask, why choose a city with the omni presence of a CIA-VIP? Boren had named Tenet to be chief of staff for the Intelligence Committee in 1987, when Tenet was 34. Further, it is known that when the younger President Bush was entering office, Boren called him and urged that Tenet remain as CIA director. Tenet did his homework. Actually the CIA traced officially at least three of the 19 hijackers before Sept 11th. In January 2001, the CIA suspected Jarrah,Siad had been in Afghanistan and wanted him questioned because of "his suspected involvement in terrorist activities". http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/01/cia.hijacker/index.html The CIA knew many of the 10-15 hijackers who got their visas from the CIA consulate in Jeddah. At least Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar have been confirmed as being on the CIA watch list. And the war plans by the Pentagon against the Taliban had been supported by the CIA as well: In April 2001 the CIA received a warning by former Northern Alliance Commander Ahmed Shah Massoud. On April 5, 2001 he had a message for Bush at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France: "If President Bush doesn't help us," he replied in Persian, according to a recording of his remarks translated by Afghan allies, "then these terrorists will damage the United States and Europe very soon, and it will be too late." http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A8802-2002Jan19 A few weeks later, some unknown CIA officers travelled into northern Afghanistan and gave Massoud cash and supplies in small amounts in exchange for intelligence on al Qaeda. At basically the same time, ... also Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher "conducted secret and illegal negotiations with the Taliban while on a trip paid for by Islamic and Egyptian support organizations", charged his Democratic challenger, Gerrie Schipske. http://www.schipske4congress.org/afghanstn.html "Rohrabacher traveled to the United Arab Emirate of Qatar and conducted secret, unauthorized negotiations with Osama bin Laden's protégé - Taliban Foreign Minister Walid Ahmad Mutawakel in April 2001," said Schipske. The Arab news media reports that Rohrabacher pressured the Government of Qatar to set up a private meeting between him and the Taliban's Foreign Minister. "Rohrabacher met with Mutawakel and gave him a document that outlined his own `personal peace plan' and told Mutawakel to take it back to the Taliban," Schipske explains. "It is simply outrageous that this rogue Congressman engaged in negotiations with the Taliban. He needs to explain why he tried to cut a deal on his own and what he promised the Taliban during the meeting." Schipske urged Rohrabacher to release whatever documents he handed to the Taliban leader. Rohrabacher's secret dealings came to light after his 2001 Financial Disclosure was released in late July 2002 showing a trip to Qatar paid for by both the Egypt International Forum and the Islamic Institute. Rohrabacher and George Tenet have known each other for years. They both worked in 1998 together on a satellite controversy with the Intelligence Committee. http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/06/08/cq/china.html Rohrabacher is member of the Afghanistan - America Foundation, a non-profit, non-partisan, independent organization located in Washington, D.C., a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol building. This Foundation is honored to have as its National Honorary Co-Chairmen two former White House National Security Advisors, Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski and Gen. Brent Scowcroft. Closely advising and working with the Foundation are Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad, RAND Corp.; Dr. Tom Gouttierre, Director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska, Omaha, and Vice-President of the Afghanistan - America Foundation. Dr. Frederick Starr, former President of Oberlin College and now Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at the School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University; and Dr. Barnett Rubin, Council on Foreign Relations, serve on the Foundation's White Paper Task Force. But back to Tenet. Through June and July 2001, as the Washington Post described, CIA Director George J. Tenet worked himself "nearly frantic" with concern. "At Langley, Tenet was nearly ready. His proposed assistance to the Northern Alliance rebels ranged from $125 million to $200 million and included money, battlefield intelligence, nonlethal equipment such as body armor and winter clothing." http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A8802-2002Jan19

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