Coleen Rowley: Chechen Terrorists and the Neocons

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/357-europe/17036-chechen-terrorists-and-the-neocons

Giuliani knows full well how the Chechen "terrorists" proved useful to the U.S. in keeping pressure on the Russians, much as the Afghan mujahedeen were used in the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan from 1980 to 1989. In fact, many neocons signed up as Chechnya's "friends," including former CIA Director James Woolsey.

For instance, see this 2004 article in the UK Guardian, entitled, "The Chechens' American friends: The Washington neocons' commitment to the war on terror evaporates in Chechnya, whose cause they have made their own."

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Shenon's discovery involved key information that the FBI and the entire "intelligence" community mishandled and covered up, not only before 9/11 but for a decade afterward. And it also related to the exact point of my 2002 "whistleblower memo" that led to the post 9/11 DOJ-Inspector General investigation about FBI failures and also partially helped launch the 9/11 Commission investigation.

But still the full truth did not come out, even after Shenon's blockbuster discovery in 2011 of the April 2001 memo linking the main Chechen leader Ibn al Khattab to Osama bin Laden. The buried April 2001 memo had been addressed to FBI Director Louis Freeh (another illegal recipient of MEK money, by the way!) and also to eight of the FBI's top counter-terrorism officials.

Similar memos must have been widely shared with all U.S. intelligence in April 2001. Within days of terrorist suspect Zaccarias Moussaoui's arrest in Minnesota on Aug. 16, 2001, French intelligence confirmed that Moussaoui had been fighting under and recruiting for Ibn al-Khattab, raising concerns about Moussaoui's flight training.

[SoCalDem]

1. We always cultivate strange bedfellows

Viet Nam should have taught us a lesson, but we repeat the pattern..we did it with the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan..and even the Taliban at first..

We thought Castro was okay at first too

We thought so highly of the Shah, that we replaced a democratically elected president in favor of him..

It's too bad we cannot just stay out of others' business instead of backing people who will later on attack us..be our enemies..

[HiPointDem]

2. kr.

[KharmaTrain]

3. Do We Know That Tsarnaev Was A Chechen Terrorist??

...I know it's easy to connect some dots and come up with that connection, but I have yet to hear one made officially...just speculation.

[eridani]

4. Whether he was or not, neocons have a long history of supporting religious fundies

--of all stripes, and then turning on them when they pursue independent objectives.