Politics of Fear, Part 3-1

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares

Adam Curtis, writer and director of this series, claims bin Laden as 'terrorist mastermind' with Zawahiri recruited suicide bombers from Islamist training camps in Afghanistan and committed the 1998 US embassy bombings in the East African capitals of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. For the first time the name 'bin Laden' entered the public conscience as a terrorist mastermind.

Quote, "But his [bin Laden] and Zawahiri's operation was very much on the fringes of the Islamist movement. The overwhelming majority of the fighters in these camps had nothing at all to do with bin Laden, or international terrorism. They were trained to fight regimes in their own countries, such Uzbekistan, Kashmir, and Chechnya. Their aim was to establish Islamist societies in the Muslim world, and they had no interest in attacking America. Bin Laden helped fund some of the camps, and in return was allowed to look for volunteers for his operations. But a number of senior Islamists were against his strategy including, members of Zawahiri's own group, Islamic Gihad. Even bin Laden's displays of strength to the Western media were faked; the fighters in this video had been hired for the day, and told to bring their own weapons, for beyond his own group, bin Laden had no formal organisation, until the Americans invented one for him."

See Webster Tarpley's '9/11 Synthetic Terror Made in USA' page 136: "CIA met Bin Laden in Dubai in July [2001]".
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2005/07/317436.pdf

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