Category: 9/11 Truth

Perino Declares Victory in GWOT

Now that the U.S. is around fifty days away from installing a new One Party sock puppet, it is time for the neocons to declare victory. It’s easy enough to do after they move a couple pieces around on the chessboard and insist a rook is instead a king.

For instance, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is now a king. He is more important in the phony GWOT than Osama bin Laden. White House Press Secretary Dana Perino says so and she obviously does not speak without the express consent of the neocons.

Yesterday, during a press conference, Ms. Perino responded to a question as follows:

Q: But Osama bin Laden is the one that — you keep talking about his lieutenants, and, yes, they are very important, but Osama bin Laden was the mastermind of 9/11 –

PERINO: No, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the mastermind of 9/11, and he’s sitting in jail right now.

Bingo, the war in terror just cleared a very large hurdle. Funny how things work in Bushzarro world.

Maybe this explains why Osama’s FBI poster does not list the September 11, 2001, attack as one of his crimes. “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11,” Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI, told the Muckraker Report back in 2006.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, KSM for short, was allegedly captured by Pakistan’s ISI in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Before this he was killed during a raid in Karachi, but like most al-Qaeda figures it is possible KSM has more than one life. During interrogation KSM was supposedly waterboarded, according to CIA Director Michael Hayden, and admitted to a virtual laundry list of evil deeds, including the September 11 attacks, the failed shoe bomber operation, the nightclub bombing in Bali, Indonesia, plots to attack oil tankers and U.S. naval ships in the Straits of Hormuz, the Straits of Gibraltar and in Singapore, a plan to assassinate Jimmy Carter (no doubt the neocons were disappointed this one never materialized), a plot targeting the New York Stock Exchange and other U.S. financial targets, a plot to attack NATO’s headquarters in Europe, the beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, and much, much more. It really is a super human list of accomplishments.

For all of this, KSM will eventually face a U.S. Department of Defense tribunal under the Military Commissions Act 2006. In short, KSM may be tried and executed without verifiable evidence that he is detained or for that matter is even alive. But then we’re expected to take the neocons at their word, sort of like we were expected to believe Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and Muslims hiding in distant and remote caves were able to pull of the attacks on September 11, 2001.

Finally, in order to get a better handle on KSM, it helps to look into his background. He was associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the organization long ago penetrated and compromised by British intelligence and the CIA. KSM is a Pakistani who spent most of his childhood in Kuwait, went to college at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University from 1983 to 1986, and fought in Afghanistan for the CIA. It is established that he had a close relationship with Pakistan’s ISI. His brother, Zahid Shaikh Mohammed, worked for Mercy International, a prominent Islamic charity in Afghanistan operated by Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, an Afghan warlord, who was described as a “favored recipient of money from the Saudi and American governments,” according to the Los Angeles Times. KSM made the acquaintance of CIA assets Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and many other future al-Qaeda leaders while in Afghanistan. In addition, KSM was sent to participate in the CIA-NATO effort in Bosnia, designed to undermine the Yugoslavian government. (See Rohan Gunaratna, “Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,” Playboy, 1 June 2005, and “The Plots And Designs Of al-Qaida’s Engineer,” Los Angeles Times, 22 December 2002).

Instead of a CIA-ISI operative, we are expected to believe KSM is al-Qaeda’s “mastermind” and Osama bin Laden is some sort of inspirational patriarch, hardly worth rounding up and bringing to justice. It makes sense, of course, because Osama is long dead. KSM is supposedly squirreled away in one of the CIA’s black holes, never to be seen again, awaiting a military commission, and execution, thus conveniently out of sight.

If you believe any of this, I have a bridge for sale.