Sunday, November 16, 2003
Reuters, Nov 14:PARIS - The CIA has rejected as fantasy claims in a new book that it tried to negotiate a non-aggression pact with Osama bin Laden just two months before the September 11, 2001 airliner attacks against the United States.
Richard Labeviere, author of The Corridors of Terror, released on Thursday, says the CIA's Dubai station chief approached bin Laden while the al Qaeda leader was being treated for a serious kidney complaint in the United Arab Emirates.
He said the meeting took place in the American Hospital in Dubai on July 12, barely eight weeks before [9/11]. . .
CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield['s deniall echoed] an earlier rebuttal of French media reports in October 2001 about the alleged Dubai meeting.
Labeviere said he learned of an encounter from a contact in the Dubai hospital, and said the event was confirmed in detail during a separate interview in New York with a Gulf prince who presented himself as an adviser to the Emir of Bahrain.
The prince, who the author met in a Manhattan hotel in November 2001, appeared well-informed about the CIA-bin Laden meeting.
Labeviere said the second contact told him the face-to-face had been arranged by Prince Turki al-Faisal, the head of the Saudi General Intelligence Department. TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS:This "negotiating a non-agression pact" story is rather amusing in its transparency. CIA station chief Larry Mitchell was telling OBL what they expected the script to be for 9/11. Of course the CIA still officially waves its hand at the story, but now they're putting out this story sub rosa to assuage those folks who still have questions about the meeting. Saudi interests have similar interests in pushing this story. .....---
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