Peter Dale Scott - US Government Protection of Al-Qaeda Terrorists and the US-Saudi Black Hole

[Peter Lemkin]

A major new essay by Peter Dale Scott on the US Govt's (highly suggestive) continual 'protection' of Al-Qaeda assets. Kudos to Peter, he mentioned on Facebook he spent two months putting this essay together. A lot to digest in this one.

http://japanfocus.org/-Peter_Dale-Scott/3971

Wow, That's approx. 42 pages!.....guess I'll be up late tonight....never wanna miss something by PDS!

Just read the first few paragraphs!!!!......

US Government Protection of Al-Qaeda Terrorists and the US-Saudi Black Hole

Peter Dale Scott


For almost two centuries American government, though always imperfect,was also a model for the world of limited government, having evolved a system of restraints on executive power through its constitutional arrangement of checks and balances.
Since 9/11 however, constitutional practices have been overshadowed by a series of emergency measures to fight terrorism. The latter have mushroomed in size, reach and budget, while traditional government has shrunk. As a result we have today what the journalist Dana Priest has called two governments: the one its citizens were familiar with,operated more or less in the open: the other a parallel top secret government whose parts had mushroomed in less than a decade into a gigantic, sprawling universe of its own, visible to only a carefully vetted cadre and its entirety…visible only to God.[SUP]1[/SUP]
More and more, it is becoming common to say that America, like Turkey before it, now has what Marc Ambinder and John Tirman have called a deep state behind the public one.[SUP]2[/SUP] And this parallel government is guided in surveillance matters by its ownForeign Intelligence Surveillance Court, known as the FISA court,which according to the NewYork Times, "has quietly become almost a parallel Supreme Court."[SUP]3[/SUP] Thanks largely to Edward Snowden, it is now clear that the FISA Court has permitted this deep state to expand surveillance beyond the tiny number of known and suspected Islamic terrorists, to any incipientprotest movement that might challenge the policies of the Americanwar machine.
Americans have by and large not questioned this parallel government, accepting that sacrifices of traditional rights and traditional transparency are necessary to keep us safe from al-Qaeda attacks. However secret power is unchecked power, and experience of the last century has only reinforced the truth of Lord Acton's famous dictum that uncheckedpower always corrupts. It is time to consider the extent to which American secret agencies have developed a symbiotic relationship with the forces they are supposed to be fighting and have even on occasion intervened to let al-Qaeda terrorists proceed with their plots.
"Intervened to let al-Qaeda terrorists proceed with their plots"? These words as I write them make me wonder yet again, as I so often do, if I am not losing my marbles, and proving myself to be no more than a zany"conspiracy theorist." Yet I have to remind myself that my claim is not one coming from theory, but rests on certain undisputed facts about incidents that are true even though they have been systematically suppressed or under-reported in the American mainstream media.
More telling, I am describing a phenomenon that occurred not just once,but consistently, almost predictably. We shall see that, among the al-Qaeda terrorists who were first protected and then continued their activities were

1)Ali Mohamed, identified in the 9/11 Commission Report (p. 68) as theleader of the 1998 Nairobi Embassy bombing;

2)Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, Osama bin Laden's close friend andfinancier, while in the Philippines, of Ramzi Yousef (principalarchitect of the first WTC attack) and his uncle Khalid SheikhMohammed;

3)Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, identified in the 9/11 Commission Report (p.145) as "the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks."

4)Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi. two of the alleged 9/11hijackers, whose presence in the United States was concealed from theFBI by CIA officers for months before 9/11.[SUP]4[/SUP]

Itmight sound from these three citations as if the 9/11 Commissionmarked a new stage in the U.S. treatment of these terrorists, andthat the Report now exposed those terrorists who in the past had beenprotected. On the contrary, a principal purpose of my essay is toshow that

1)one purpose of protecting these individuals had been to protect avalued intelligence connection (the "Al-Qaeda connection" if youwill);

2)one major intention of the 9/11 Commission Report was to continueprotecting this connection;

3)those on the 9/11 Commission staff who were charged with thisprotection included at least one commission member (Jamie Gorelick),one staff member (Dietrich Snell) and one important witness (PatrickFitzgerald) who earlier had figured among the terrorists'protectors.

In the course of writing this essay, I came to another disturbing conclusion I had not anticipated. This is that a central feature of the protection has been to defend the 9/11 Commission's false picture of al-Qaeda as an example of non-state terrorism, at odds with not just the CIA but also the royal families of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. In reality, as I shall show, royal family protection from Qatar and Saudi Arabia (concealed by the 9/11 Commission) was repeatedly given to key figures like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged "principal architect of the 9/11 attacks."
This finding totally undermines the claim that the wars fought by America in Asia since 9/11 have been part of a global "war on terror." On the contrary, the result of the wars has been to establish a permanent U.S. military presence in the oil- and gas-rich regions of Central Asia, in alliance with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Pakistan the principal backers of the jihadi terrorist networks the U.S. been supposedly fighting. Meanwhile the most authentic opponents in the region of these Sunni jihadi terrorists the governments of Iraq,Libya, Syria, and Iran have been overthrown by U.S. invasion or military support (in the case of Iraq and Libya) subverted with U.S.support (in the case of Syria), or sanctioned and threatened as part of an "axis of evil" (in the case of Iran).
The protection to terrorists described in this essay, in other words, has been sustained partly in order to support the false premises that have underlain U.S. Asian wars for more than a decade...............[and about 41 more pages....!]