O Dr. JP Pereira queixa-se diversas vezes de ser atacado, e de existir
“em Portugal um delito de opinião para o qual uma pequena turba, que só parece grande porque é alimentada pelo silêncio de muitos(…), esta turba segundo JPP “pede punição, censura, opróbrio, confissão pública do crime, rasgar de vestes. Esse delito de opinião é ter estado a favor da invasão do
Iraque e é particularmente agravado nos casos raríssimos em que se continua a estar a favor, esses então de reincidência patológica que justificam prisão e banimento.”
Como é óbvio não censuro a opinião nem do Dr. JPP nem de ninguém, quer tenham estado num lado ou de outro da barricada, cada um é livre de expressar os seus sentimentos e opiniões, pelo menos é o que defendo.
Agora, ambos os lados devem apresentar argumentos válidos nesta discussão, e não esconder FACTOS apenas porque não validam a sua maneira de pensar e opinião, e infelizmente é esta a táctica habitual do Dr. JPP, só apresenta “factos” que lhe convém, os que não cabem nessa visão são postos de lado, e pior que isso nem sequer são mencionados.
Mas o não serem mencionados pelo Dr. JPP e por José Manuel Fernandes do Público, não quer dizer que não existam ou que não sejam verdadeiros e muito válidos para a discussão.
Deixo aqui alguns FACTOS que o Dr. JPP se “esquece” de mencionar nos seus artigos.
Não tendo ainda lido o livro “The Looming Tower : Al Qaeda’s Road to 9/11“do membro do CFR, a que o Dr. JPP faz referência no artigo “NUNCA É TARDE PARA APRENDER“, creio que não fará referência a algumas questões pertinentes que o Dr. JPP não menciona tais como:
1º A entrevista de zbigniew brzezinski ao Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 15-21 January 1998″ na qual ele explica como criou os Mujahadeen:
Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs [“From the Shadows”], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinionthis aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention. Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?
B: It isn’t quite that. We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.
B: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn’t a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.
2º Não é verdade que o papel dos EUA na criação de Bin Laden se possa considerar de pequena monta como afirma “Contrariamente ao que se repete por todo o lado, o papel dos americanos em “fazer” Bin Laden é muito pequeno.”, senão não se perceberia porque Bin Laden meses antes tenha recebido no hospital americano do Dubai tratamento de diálise.
Qualquer pessoa que se interesse por estes temas, sabe da cumplicidade existente entre os serviços secretos Paquistaneses, ISI, e a CIA, pois bem, com a cumplicidade e autorização destes, Bin Laden periódicamente recebeu tratamento no hosital militar de Peshawar.
Indian sources claim that “bin Laden, who suffers from renal deficiency, has been periodically undergoing dialysis in a Peshawar military hospital with the knowledge and approval of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), if not of [Pakistani President] Musharraf himself.”
[SAPRA (New Delhi), 7/2/2001]
While one might question the bias of an Indian newspaper on this issue, highly respected intelligence newsletter Jane’s Intelligence Digest later reports the story, and adds, “None of [these details] will be unfamiliar to US intelligence operatives who have been compiling
extensive reports on these alleged activities.” [Jane’s Intelligence Digest, 9/20/2001] CBS will later report bin Laden had emergency medical care in Pakistan the day before 9/11. [CBS News, 1/28/2002] If these stories are true, it appears Pakistan could have captured bin Laden for the US at any time. The Jane’s Intelligence Digest article adds, “It is becoming clear that both the Taliban and al-Qaeda would have found it difficult to have continued functioning—including the latter group’s terrorist activities—without substantial aid and support from Islamabad [Pakistan].” [Jane’s Intelligence Digest, 9/20/2001]
July 4-14, 2001: Bin Laden Reportedly Receives Lifesaving Treatment in Dubai, Said to Meet with CIA While There
Bin Laden, America’s most wanted criminal with a $5 million bounty on his head, supposedly receives lifesaving treatment for renal failure from American specialist Dr. Terry Callaway at the American hospital in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He is possibly accompanied by Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri (who is said to be bin Laden‘s personal physician as well as al-Qaeda’s second-in-command), plus several bodyguards. Callaway supposedly treated bin Laden in 1996 and 1998, also in Dubai. Callaway later refuses to answer any questions on this matter. [Le Figaro (Paris), 10/31/2001; Agence France-Presse, 11/1/2001; London Times, 11/1/2001] During his stay, binLaden is visited by “several members of his family and Saudi personalities,”
including Prince Turki al-Faisal, then head of Saudi intelligence. [Guardian, 11/1/2001] On July 12, bin Laden reportedly meets with CIA agent Larry Mitchell in the hospital. Mitchell apparently lives in Dubai as an Arab specialist under the cover of being a consular agent. The CIA, the Dubai hospital, and even bin Laden deny the story. The two news organizations that broke the story, Le Figaro and Radio France International, stand by their reporting.
4º Muito dificilmente se pode concluir, ou até afirmar que Bin Laden é considerado um pária pelos governantes da Arábia Saudita, uma vez que sempre manteve e mantém ligações aos serviços secretos Sauditas, nomeadamente com o director desses serviços, o príncipe Turki al-Faisal.
Osama bin Laden begins providing financial, organizational, and engineering aid for the mujaheddin in Afghanistan, with the advice and support of the Saudi royal family. [New Yorker, 11/5/2001]
Some, including Richard Clarke, counterterrorism “tsar” during the
Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, believe he was handpicked
for the job by Prince Turki al-Faisal, head of Saudi intelligence (see Early 1980 and After). [New Yorker, 11/5/2001; Sunday Times (London), 8/25/2002] The Pakistani ISI want a Saudi prince as a public demonstration of the commitment of the Saudi royal family and as a way to ensure royal funds for the anti-Soviet forces. The
agency fails to get royalty, but bin Laden, with his family’s influential ties, is good enough for the ISI.
French
intelligence secretly monitors a meeting of Saudi billionaires at the Hotel Royale Monceau in Paris this month with the financial representative of al-Qaeda. “The Saudis, including a key Saudi prince joined by Muslim and non-Muslim gun traffickers, [meet] to determine who would pay how much to Osama. This [is] not so much an act of support but of protection—a payoff to keep the mad bomber away from Saudi Arabia.” [Palast, 2002, pp. 100] Participants also agree that bin Laden should be rewarded for promoting Wahhabism (an austere form of Islam that requires literal interpretation of the Koran) in Chechnya, Kashmir, Bosnia, and other places. [Fifth Estate, 10/29/2003 
] This extends an alleged secret deal first made between the Saudi government and bin Laden in 1991. Later, 9/11 victims’ relatives will rely on the “nonpublished
French intelligence report” of this meeting in their lawsuit against important Saudis.
5º “Bin Laden é daquelas personagens com intensa fé religiosa que “melhora” na adversidade mais extrema. Rigoroso, cumpridor sem falha do estrito programa de vida que se impôs, vivendo uma vida ascética, a que apenas a paixão árabe pelos cavalos dá alguma cor, juntou à sua volta gente muito diferente mas que controla mais pelo exemplo do que pelo poder. E este é o perfil típico de um homem muito, muito perigoso.”
Sem dúvida que se trata de um homem muito perigoso, mas a sua enorme perigosidade só advém dos “amigos” que tem, e que o protegem, ISI, CIA e Saudi intelligence head Prince Turki al-Faisal.
Mas depois da descrição que faz deste homem neste pequeno parágrafo e com a qual concordo, como poderá o Dr. JPP aceitar como verdadeiras as imagens da famosa cassete encontrada miraculosamente no Afeganistão em que um suposto Bin Laden se auto-incrimina em relação aos atentados de 11 Setembro 2001?
É que nessas imagens aparece um homem com maior compleição física que Bin Laden, com anéis de ouro e que, pasme-se, escreve com a mão direita, quando na realidade segundo o FBI,Bin Laden is left-handed and walks with a cane.
6º Porque razão o FBI não acusa formalmente Bin Laden dos atentados de 11 Setembro 2001?
Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people.
In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the world.
7º Como explicar diversas situações que se passam no Kosovo e Albania, onde agentes da CIA e forças SAS britânicas se misturam com mujahedeen e enviados de Bin Laden, um seu general, no treino ao KLA?
The Greek press reports that Afghan mujaheddin are entering Albania in large numbers. Osama bin Laden is named as one of those who have organized groups to fight in Kosovo to fight alongside the Albanians. According to the Arab-language news service Al-Hayat, an Albanian commander in Kosovo code named Monia is directly linked to bin Laden,
and commands a force that includes at least 100 mujaheddin. An Interpol report released on October 23, 2001 also reveals that a senior bin Laden associate led an elite KLA fighting unit in Kosovo. According to the report, bin Laden also maintained extensive ties with the Albanian mafia.
3. Al-Qaeda in the Balkans
“Successive US administrations have used al-Qaeda to pursue strategic interests in the Balkans. A further examination of this issue, however, reveals that the US-al-Qaeda alliance in the Balkans has been instrumental in facilitating successive terrorist attacks against US targets.
Nevertheless, the alliance continues to this day. As the London Spectator noted:
America’s role in backing the Mujahideen a second time in the early and mid-1990’s is seldom mentioned… From 1992 to 1995, the Pentagon assisted with the movement of thousands of Mujahideen and other Islamic elements from Central Asia into Europe, to fight alongside Bosnian Muslims against the Serbs…
If Western intervention in Afghanistan created the Mujahideen, Western intervention in Bosnia appears to have globalised it. (9)”
(…)”The policy of connecting with al-Qaeda in the Balkans continued in relation to the Kosovo conflict. As early as 1998, the US State Department listed the KLA as a terrorist organization connected to al-Qaeda. (12)
Other US intelligence reports prove that not only is the KLA funded from afar by al-Qaeda, numerous KLA fighters have trained in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and Albania, and numerous al-Qaeda mujihadeen have joined the ranks of the KLA. The reports substantiate a
“link” between bin Laden and the KLA, “including a common staging area in Tropoje,
Albania, a center for Islamic terrorists.” KLA-sponsored border crossings into Kosovo from Albania of hundreds of foreign fighters include “veterans of the militant group Islamic Jihad from Bosnia, Chechnya and Afghanistan,” carrying forged Macedonian Albanian passports. (13)”
Haveria mais questões, mas creio que estas são suficientes para questionar quer o livro quer diversas afirmações do Dr. JPP, é que infelizmente o Dr JPP tem sempre a tendência a deixar de lado factos que não cabem ou não servem a tese que pretende defender.
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