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| 1 | At Border, Signs of Pakistani Role in Taliban Surge | archived: ref 491 |
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| New York Times January 21, 2006 |
QUETTA, Pakistan ó The most explosive question about the Taliban resurgence here along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan is this: Have Pakistani intelligence agencies been promoting the Islamic insurgency? | |||||
| 2 | CIA Commander: U.S. Let bin Laden Slip Away | archived: ref 367 |
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| Newsweek August 5, 2005 |
in a forthcoming book, the CIA field commander for the agency's Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Gary Berntsen, says he and other U.S. commanders did know that bin Laden was among the hundreds of fleeing Qaeda and Taliban members. Berntsen says he had definitive intelligence that bin Laden was holed up at Tora BoraÛintelligence operatives had tracked himÛand could have been caught. "He was there," Berntsen tells NEWSWEEK. | |||||
| 3 | The September 11th Sourcebooks | ref 99 |
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| National Security Archive September 11, 2003 |
9/11 documents for serious researchers. Includes links to many primary U.S. documents obtained through FOI. | |||||
| 4 | Revealed: The Taliban minister, the US envoy and the warning of September 11 that was ignored | archived: ref 225 |
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| Independent (UK) September 7, 2002 |
Weeks before the terrorist attacks on 11 September, the United States and the United Nations ignored warnings from a secret Taliban emissary that Osama bin Laden was planning a huge attack on American soil. | |||||
| 5 | Al Qaeda's Road Paved With Gold | ref 33 |
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| Washington Post February 17, 2002 |
Just as the United States and its allies swept toward Afghanistan's main cities last autumn, the ruling Taliban and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network sent waves of couriers with bars of gold and bundles ofdollars across the porous border into Pakistan. | |||||
| 6 | Bush, oil and the Taliban | archived: ref 344 |
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| Salon.com February 8, 2002 |
In a new book, "Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth," two French intelligence analysts allege the Clinton and Bush administrations put diplomacy before law enforcement in dealing with the al-Qaida threat before Sept. 11, in order to maintain smooth relations with Saudi Arabia and to avoid disrupting the oil market. The book, which has become a bestseller in France but has received little press attention here, also alleges that the Bush administration was bargaining with the Taliban, over a Central Asian oil pipeline and Osama bin Laden, just five weeks before the September attacks. | |||||
| 7 | Emirates Looked Other Way While Al Qaeda Funds Flowed | archived: ref 252 |
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| LA Times January 20, 2002 |
In the emirate of Sharjah, Afghan-based militants linked up with Victor Bout, a Russian arms dealer accused of repeatedly violating United Nations weapon sanctions. And millions in Al Qaeda funds cascaded through the freewheeling financial institutions of the neighboring emirate of Dubai. Terrorists used a Somali warlord's money exchange, an Islamic bank once headed by the emirates' finance minister and currency houses that touted their ability to wire $1 million abroad overnight. | |||||
| 8 | Taliban's trail leads to Pakistan | archived: ref 65 |
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| Asia Times December 13, 2001 |
It is believed that the Taliban will split into a number of wings in order to establish political clout in the tribal area. One group, comprising diplomats and some lower-ranked ministers in the previous Afghanistan government, has already announced in a press conference as having split from the Taliban, but it refused to condemn either Taliban leader Mullah Omar or Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda network. | |||||
| 9 | How A Holy War Against The Soviets Turned On U.S. | archived: ref 22 |
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| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette September 23, 2001 |
In 1986, Director of Central Intelligence William Casey ... persuaded the U.S. Congress to provide the Afghan fighters known as Mujaheddin, "holy warriors" in Arabic, with American-made Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to shoot down Soviet planes and to send U.S. advisers to train the guerrillas. | |||||
| 10 | Threat of US strikes passed to Taliban weeks before NY attack | archived: ref 443 |
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| Guardian September 22, 2001 |
Osama bin Laden and the Taliban received threats of possible American military strikes against them two months before the terrorist assaults on New York and Washington, which were allegedly masterminded by the Saudi-born fundamentalist, a Guardian investigation has established. | |||||