File Under Bush "Keeping Us Safe"-Bin Laden NOT Determined To Attack The US After 9/11

Bin Laden not determined to attack the US after 9/11?
by Quincy Adams

Bin Laden may have had no intention to attack the US again after 9/11. This sheds further doubt on the Bush administration's claim to have "kept us safe" since.

I've just noticed an article called The Unraveling by Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank in the New Republic http://www.peterbergen.com/bergen/services/print.aspx?id=346 from late Spring 2008. The article discusses several Islamic militants who have come to preach against Al Qaeda. This has been reported elsewhere, but perhaps not so succinctly.

The new thing to me in the article was an account of a summer 2000 meeting in Kandahar -- a global jihadist strategy session hosted by Bin Laden. One attendee, the Libyan Noman Benotman, complained that Bin Laden's war against the U.S. -- the "far enemy"-- would impede his efforts against secular Arab governments -- the "near enemy." They quote Benotman as follows:



This is the first evidence I have heard that Al Qaeda may have formed an explicit intention against further attacks on the United States.

more at:
http://www.samefacts.com/archives/terrorism_and_its_control_/2009/01/bin_laden_not_determined_to_attack_the_us_after_911.php

attacked the US on 9/11.

we would destroy ourselves financially, which we've almost done.

Bush was spreading the terror much more than ObL ever could dream ...

The neocons and republitards, cowards that they are, could be counted on going into total freak-out stage donning flag pins and fearing brown skin people.

Once Bush and Cheney let the vast military industrial complex on the loose with a no-bid cost-plus war to profiteer from, Bin Laden saw that all he had to do was sit back and watch the U.S. bankrupt itself under it's cowardly idiot-in-chief stewardship. Bush did Osama's work for him. Heckuva job W.