A recent Reuters report (11/13/03; scroll down) quoting Labeviere's book
"Corridors of Terror" points to alleged "negotiations" between Osama bin
Laden and the CIA, which took place two months prior to the September
11, 2001 attacks at the American Hospital in Dubai, UAE, while bin Laden
was recovering from a kidney dialysis treatment

Enemy Number One in hospital recovering from dialysis treatment
"negotiating with CIA"?

The meeting with the CIA head of station at the American Hospital in
Dubai, UAE was confirmed by a report in the French daily newspaper Le
Figaro, published in October 2001
The "negotiations" between the CIA and Osama (a CIA "intelligence
asset") is sheer disinformation. Even though the CIA has refuted the
claim, the report serves to highlight Osama as a bona fide "Enemy of
America," rather than a creation of the CIA. In the words of former CIA
agent Milt Bearden in an interview with Dan Rather on September 12,
2001, “If they didn’t have an Osama bin Laden, they would invent one.”

Intelligence negotiations never take place on a hospital bed. The CIA
knew Osama was at the American Hospital in Dubai. Rather than negotiate,
they could have arrested him. He was on the FBI most wanted list.

According to the Reuters report: "At the time, bin Laden had a
multi-million dollar price on his head for his suspected role in the
1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa". So why did the
hospital staff, who knew that Osama was at the American Hospital in
Dubai, not claim the reward?

The Figaro report points to complicity between the CIA and Osama rather
than "negotiation". (see excerpt below). Consistent with several other
reports, it also points to the antagonism between the FBI and the CIA.

If the CIA had wanted to arrest Osama bin Laden prior to September 11,
they could have done it then in Dubai. But they would not have had a
the war on terrorism pretext for waging a major military operation in
the Middle East and Central Asia.

According to Le Figaro:

"Dubai... was the backdrop of a secret meeting between Osama bin Laden
and the local CIA agent in July [2001]. A partner of the administration
of the American Hospital in Dubai claims that "public enemy number one"
stayed at this hospital between the 4th and 14th of July. While he was
hospitalized, bin Laden received visits from many members of his family
as well as prominent Saudis and Emiratis. During the hospital stay, the
local CIA agent, known to many in Dubai, was seen taking the main
elevator of the hospital to go [up] to bin Laden's hospital room. A few
days later, the CIA man bragged to a few friends about having visited
bin Laden. Authorized sources say that on July 15th, the day after bin
Laden returned to Quetta [Pakistan], the CIA agent was called back to
headquarters. In the pursuit of its investigations, the FBI discovered
"financing agreements" that the CIA had been developing with its "Arab
friends" for years. The Dubai meeting is, so it would seem, within the
logic of 'a certain American policy.'"
(http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/RIC111B.html )

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CBS203A.html ,

see also
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/28/eveningnews/main325887.shtml ]

DAN RATHER, CBS ANCHOR: As the United states and its allies in the war
on terrorism press the hunt for Osama bin Laden, CBS News has exclusive
information tonight about where bin Laden was and what he was doing in
the last hours before his followers struck the United States September
11.

This is the result of hard-nosed investigative reporting by a team of
CBS news journalists, and by one of the best foreign correspondents in
the business, CBS`s Barry Petersen. Here is his report.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) BARRY PETERSEN, CBS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over):
Everyone remembers what happened on September 11. Here`s the story of
what may have happened the night before. It is a tale as twisted as the
hunt for Osama bin Laden.

CBS News has been told that the night before the September 11 terrorist
attack, Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan. He was getting medical
treatment with the support of the very military that days later pledged
its backing for the U.S. war on terror in Afghanistan.

Pakistan intelligence sources tell CBS News that bin Laden was spirited
into this military hospital in Rawalpindi for kidney dialysis treatment.
On that night, says this medical worker who wanted her identity
protected, they moved out all the regular staff in the urology
department and sent in a secret team to replace them. She says it was
treatment for a very special person. The special team was obviously up
to no good.

"The military had him surrounded," says this hospital employee who also
wanted his identity masked, "and I saw the mysterious patient helped out
of a car. Since that time," he says, "I have seen many pictures of the
man. He is the man we know as Osama bin Laden. I also heard two army
officers talking to each other. They were saying that Osama bin Laden
had to be watched carefully and looked after." Those who know bin Laden
say he suffers from numerous ailments, back and stomach problems. Ahmed
Rashid, who has written extensively on the Taliban, says the military
was often there to help before 9/11.

AHMED RASHID, TALIBAN EXPERT: There were reports that Pakistani
intelligence had helped the Taliban buy dialysis machines. And the rumor
was that these were wanted for Osama bin Laden.

PETERSEN (on camera): Doctors at the hospital told CBS News there was
nothing special about that night, but they refused our request to see
any records. Government officials tonight denied that bin Laden had any
medical treatment on that night.

(voice-over): But it was Pakistan`s President Musharraf who said in
public what many suspected, that bin Laden suffers from kidney disease,
saying he thinks bin Laden may be near death. His evidence, watching
this most recent video, showing a pale and haggard bin Laden, his left
hand never moving. Bush administration officials admit they don`t know
if bin Laden is sick or even dead.

DONALD RUMSFELD, DEFENSE SECRETARY: With respect to the issue of Osama
bin Laden`s health, I just am -- don`t have any knowledge.

PETERSEN: The United States has no way of knowing who in Pakistan`s
military or intelligence supported the Taliban or Osama bin Laden maybe
up to the night before 9/11 by arranging dialysis to keep him alive. So
the United States may not know if those same people might help him again
perhaps to freedom.

Barry Petersen, CBS News, Islamabad.

(END VIDEOTAPE) END

It should be noted, that the hospital is directly under the jurisdiction
of the Pakistani Armed Forces, which has close links to the Pentagon.
U.S. military advisers based in Rawalpindi. work closely with the
Pakistani Armed Forces. Again, no attempt was made to arrest America's
best known fugitive, but then maybe bin Laden was serving another
"better purpose". Rumsfeld claimed at the time that he had no knowledge
regarding Osama's health. (see CBS transcript above).

Needless to say, the CBS report is a crucial piece of information in the
9/11 jigsaw. It refutes the administration's claim that the whereabouts
of bin Laden are unknown. It points to a Pakistan connection, it
suggests a cover-up at the highest levels of the Bush administration.

Dan Rather and Barry Petersen fail to draw the implications of their
January 2002 report. They fail to beg the question: where was Osama on
9/11? If they are to stand by their report, the conclusion is obvious:
The administration is lying regarding the whereabouts of Osama.

Inpatient dialysis treatment tends to be longer than 24 hours in most
American hospitals, which suggests that Osama would have been discharged
from the Hospital on or "after" September 11.

If the CBS report is accurate and Osama had indeed been admitted to the
Pakistani military hospital on September 10, courtesy of America's ally,
he was in all likelihood still in hospital in Rawalpindi on the 11th of
September, when the attacks occurred. In all probability, his
whereabouts were known to US officials on the morning of September 12,
when Secretary of State Colin Powell initiated negotiations with
Pakistan, with a view to arresting and extraditing bin Laden.

These negotiations, led by General Mahmoud Ahmad, head of Pakistan's
military intelligence, on behalf of the government of President Pervez
Musharraf, took place on the 12th and 13th of September in Deputy
Secretary of State Richard Armitage's office.

For further details, see: M. Chossudovsky, Cover-up or Complicity of the
Bush Administration? The Role of Pakistan's Military Intelligence (ISI)
in the September 11 Attacks, 2 November 2001
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111A.html , See also War and
Globalization, the Truth behind September 11 , Global Outlook, Shanty
Bay, 2003, http://globalresearch.ca/globaloutlook/truth911.html

Yeah. It happens. Happened with that jerk in south america. Happened
with Castro. Happened with various chinese and russian leaders during
the cold war. Happening as we speak, no doubt, with Kim Jung il....


We don't assassinate every "enemy" of America at every given chance.
Because usually it results in a horrible war that just isn't worth
fighting.


In Osama's case.... well, they say hindsight is 20/20.

would you please get a life?

would you please get a life?

That's not nice. He's bringing up valid information that (americans at
least) should be more aware of. Not always these specifics- most of them
are useless- but in general. And I'm putting them in proper contexts.
It's intelligent, and doesn't deserve any insulting comments.

you make a point that BUSH admi, is always jacked up, and he could have
done this or that with osama, i would love for you to do a post on how
many times the clinton admin had him in custody and released him.

all the hate you have for bush and free passes you give to the libs is
if nothig else consistant if nothing else.

I am with fanta...get a life.

this is really old news to many of us...

Well if the information was comfirmed by a French newspaper we know that
it is absolutely one hundred percent factual you just don't get a better
source than tnat

Not only that garden forge, fanta and everone else, but if you stop for
a minute, qut your bush bashing, and look at history, you will see that
there was a time in every single leaders history when they knew exactly
where an enemy was at a given time and date.
'Just because you CAN do something, doesnt mean you should.'*

If we were to assassinate all our "enemies" we would either be the only
country in existence, or noone would be alive. At one point or another
in history we have been "enemies" with every single country, or at best,
non-combatants with a country. Shoule we have wiped England off the map
when we seperated from them? Should we have destroyed the USSR, because
they refused to cooperate with us?
Get a life, and quit talking if you dont know the truth about what you
are saying. Do a bit of research before hand, so you at least kno wthe
subject you are discussing.

Let us not forget that Slick Willie knew where Osama was too, and he was
offered Osama on a platter more than once and he didn't exercise his
option.