TV camera rigged to kill Afghan rebel Masood stolen in France: police-AFP

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/031016/1/3f0wb.html

The television camera rigged to kill Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Shah Masood in September 2001 was stolen from a cameraman in France the year before, French police said.

French intelligence officers determined that the serial number on the camera matched that of one stolen in the eastern city of Grenoble in December 2000, they said, adding that the French cameraman involved had been questioned. They did not identify him.

Masood, nicknamed the "Lion of the Panjshir" for his armed struggle against the Taliban that ruled Afghanistan at the time, died September 9, 2001 when two Tunisians posing as journalists with fake Belgian passports detonated a bomb hidden in the camera as they pretended to interview him.

His death, just two days before the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington, has been linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network by US officials.

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Posted as something we tellingly haven't heard much about--UBL went after Masood in tandem with 9/11. Good that the French still have an investigation going, I think.....

--Snazzy

got any?

to killing Americans, like here in NY; before and after 9/11.

No shortage of info on that.

Gets murkier from there, if that's the bridge you want to jump off.

--Snazzy

You might as well play the game.

Still, more info about the Masood assassination should be welcome in any conspiracists’ cannon.

In fact you don't need to buy any tin-foil to be interested in Masood. Masood getting offed was yet another "missed" warning sign, if you, like our pre-Bush gov, believed UBL was a threat to US persons and interests. He was killed, what?, the Saturday before? 9/9/01. The leader of the opposition to the Taliban. (Who was that camera crew? Gotta look that up--Saudi or Jordanian arabs, wasn't it? Where's the French connection there?)

I'm sure if you do own a bunch of Renynolds Wrap, the timing of his death is, unlike most everything else, a mere coincidence. But really it points at the Taliban/UBL anticipating a broad coming attack by the US.

--Snazzy