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Open Letter to the Clinton Campaign! Who orchestrated 9/11?
Copyright (c) 2008-2023 Rakesh Saxena
Osama Bin Laden is dead.
Or at least that is what Benazir Bhutto stated in an interview with Al Jazeera TV on November 2, 2007. She also named the culprit: Omar Saeed Sheikh, the person convicted of kidnapping and killing Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl.
Quite obviously, none of the US presidential hopefuls believe Ms. Bhutto. Rudy Giuliani, Mr. 9/11, is busy playing the Osama fear factor in Florida. John McCain is selling his commitment to fight the generational war against an Osama-led Al Qaeda. Barrack Obama plans to get US troops out of Iraq and focus his attention on the high mountains of the Hindu Kush.
And Hillary Clinton? Well, the Senator from New York is still figuring out how to deal with Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf in containing the threat from a variety of radicals. She is noticeably silent on the Osama issue. And for very good reason indeed. Her husband, Bill, might not know whether Osama Bin Laden is actually dead or alive today. But he most certainly can answer one question: who, by any well-reasoned estimate, orchestrated 9/11?
For nearly six long years, senior Indian spies have held the view that 9/11 was the work of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), not Al Qaeda. "If you check who controlled the terrorists training camps since the end of the anti-Soviet war in 1989, and if you check the proven timelines since then, the answer to the 9/11 question falls into the necessary relevant context," said a retired director of the Research and Intelligence Wing (RAW), India's foreign intelligence arm. "Both Osama Bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed were, for all material purposes, working for the ISI, they had no capabilities to strike New York and the Pentagon on their own accord."
Washington has blamed Mr. Mohammed, who is currently believed to be in CIA custody, as the principal organizer of the 9/11 suicide attacks. But that conclusion is based largely on interrogation transcripts of a dozen-odd captured terrorists, or alleged terrorists, in Guantanamo Bay. When one seriously attempts to corroborate the contents of those transcripts with historical facts, Washington's assertions begin to border on convenient fiction, at best. And, nobody knows those historical facts, and the timelines dictated by those facts, better than President Bill Clinton! His continued silence is, in good part, responsible for the deeply flawed terrorism-related platforms of virtually all White House aspirants, Mr. 9/11 included.
For instance, it is a known fact that Osama Bin Laden left Pakistan in 1990. He moved to Sudan in 1992 and returned to Afghanistan, via Pakistan, in mid-1996. Who controlled the terrorists training camps, along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, between 1990 and 1996? Certainly not Osama Bin Laden; he was not present in the neighbourhood.
As far as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is concerned, the record speaks for itself. There is some credible evidence that he plotted the first WTC bombing in 1992; the plot was later implemented by his nephew, Ramzi Yousef. According to politicians of the Pakistan Peoples Party, the uncle-nephew team planned the murder of Benazir Bhutto in 1993; that plan was foiled by Ms. Bhutto's security detail. [Benazir Bhutto herself confirmed the abortive attempt on numerous occasions].
Then, in 1994, Mr. Mohammed hatched Operation Bojinka, which involved killing the Pope during his visit to the Philippines and planting bombs on aircraft flying over the Pacific Ocean. To cite a little-known fact, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was indicted on terrorism charges in New York's Southern District Court in January 1996. So it is fairly safe to assume that he was known to US law enforcement at that time. But nobody in Washington has been willing to answer the most basic of questions. Who was Mr. Mohammed working for? More specifically, who was financing him?
According to the final report of the 9/11 Commission, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed established contact with Osama Bin Laden, only in mid- or late-1997; whether the two were acquainted prior to Osama's departure from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region in 1990 is a separate, open issue altogether.
In March 2007, Reuters disclosed that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had admitted his role in the suicide hijackings to the Combatant Status Review Tribunal at Guantanamo Bay. "I was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z," Mr. Mohammed was reported as telling the Tribunal members. Needless to add, no lawyers were present at that hearing, and nobody in the CIA has ever denied that some or all of such confessions were triggered by torture. This type of single-source information simply cannot be taken seriously. Remember the Iraq WMD story?
In any event, before one can decide what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed did or did not do in the months prior to September 11, 2001, it is imperative that the very significant historical facts of the 1990s are made public. "Let American voters read the 9/11 Commission's report, and make their own assessments, after they are made aware of the critical pre-9/11 timelines by Hillary Clinton or her husband, or somebody else from the Clinton era," said the editor of a prominent anti-war website on condition of anonymity last week. "As the evidence stands today, the Al Qaeda-9/11 link is a dangerously misleading assumption."
Because Khalid Sheikh Mohammed did not suddenly surface as an ambitious Islamic militant around the turn of the millennium, as many throughout the world have been led to believe. For, as the compelling facts suggest, he was a very busy terrorist since the early 1990s. Who exactly was his master?
The issue of the whether Osama is dead or alive may well become a classic side-show, if and when US presidential hopefuls begin to seek the truth behind the 9/11 tragedy. In the meanwhile, they risk leading America and NATO into yet another quagmire in the Pushtun badlands.
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Mr. Saxena is a specialist writer on matters relating to the war on terror, and on the impact of the world's conflict zones on the global economy. He can be reached at saxena@shaw.ca
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