CIA says Osama Helped Bush

Robert Parry
Consortiumnews
August 31, 2009
(Originally published on July 4, 2006)

Editor’s note: The following article rests on the predicate that there is a legitimate terrorist group known as “al-Qaeda” and Osama bin Laden was alive in 2004 and producing videotapes. In fact, Osama’s videotapes are obvious fakes (a prime example of this is the December, 2001, Osama “confession” tape featuring a fat-nosed, considerably heavier and darker-skinned Osama stand-in). There is evidence — ignored by the corporate media — that Osama died in late December, 2001, in Afghanistan. Osama’s funeral was reported by the Egyptian newspaper al-Wafd on December 26, 2001. Pakistan’s Musharraf and Afghan President Hamid Karzai have stated for the record they believe Osama is dead. The FBI’s counter-terrorism chief, Dale Watson, told the BBC in July, 2002, that he believes Osama is dead. It should come as no surprise the corpse of Osama bin Laden was exploited (and still is) for political purposes — al-Qaeda was manufactured specifically for political purposes and as an excuse to invade small and defenseless countries and kill recalcitrant Muslims.

Consortiumnews Editor’s Note: A new book by former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge describes how Bush administration insiders pressed for an escalation in the color-coded threat level the weekend before the 2004 election following a released videotape of Osama bin Laden denouncing George W. Bush.

Ridge says in his book, The Test of Our Times, that Attorney General John Ashcroft and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld urged the escalation but Ridge and FBI Director Robert Mueller blocked the move by citing a lack of significant threat evidence.

Ridge writes that he wondered, “Is this about security or politics?” — and the incident firmed up his decision to quit, which he did, although not until after the election.

However, lost in the debate over Ridge’s revelation is evidence that al-Qaeda was almost as eager for Bush to gain a second term as the Republicans were. One senior al-Qaeda leader later confided to a terrorist ally in Iraq that “prolonging the war is in our interest.”

Plus, the reason for the threat-elevation discussion — the release of bin Laden’s video — was being interpretted inside the CIA’s analytical division as an attempt by bin Laden to ensure Bush’s second term and to make certain Bush’s clumsy “war on terror” continued.

Because of the Ridge disclosure, we are re-posting a story from our Archive — originally published on July 4, 2006 — regarding bin Laden’s clever tactic to keep “crusader” Bush in office:

On Oct. 29, 2004, just four days before the U.S. presidential election, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden released a videotape denouncing George W. Bush. Some Bush supporters quickly spun the diatribe as “Osama’s endorsement of John Kerry.” But behind the walls of the CIA, analysts had concluded the opposite: that bin Laden was trying to help Bush gain a second term.

This stunning CIA disclosure is tucked away in a brief passage near the end of Ron Suskind’s The One Percent Doctrine, which draws heavily from CIA insiders. Suskind wrote that the CIA analysts based their troubling assessment on classified information, but the analysts still puzzled over exactly why bin Laden wanted Bush to stay in office.

According to Suskind’s book, CIA analysts had spent years “parsing each expressed word of the al-Qaeda leader and his deputy, [Ayman] Zawahiri. What they’d learned over nearly a decade is that bin Laden speaks only for strategic reasons. …

“Their [the CIA’s] assessments, at day’s end, are a distillate of the kind of secret, internal conversations that the American public [was] not sanctioned to hear: strategic analysis. Today’s conclusion: bin Laden’s message was clearly designed to assist the President’s reelection.

“At the five o’clock meeting, [deputy CIA director] John McLaughlin opened the issue with the consensus view: ‘Bin Laden certainly did a nice favor today for the President.’”

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