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08-28-2010, 06:01 AM
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Fidel Castro: WikiLeaks Proves Osama bin Laden Works for the US Government
(Aug. 27) -- Is Osama bin Laden -- figurehead of al-Qaida and the most wanted (http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm) terror suspect in the world -- secretly working for the U.S. government? Former Cuban President Fidel Castro thinks so, and he says that WikiLeaks (http://www.aolnews.com/tag/wikileaks/) has the proof.
Today, Cuba's daily Communist Party newspaper published remarks made by the ailing 84-year-old socialist leader in which he accused the George W. Bush administration of hiring bin Laden to act as a kind of phantom bogeyman to scare the American people into going along with Bush's policies.
"Any time Bush would stir up fear and make a big speech, bin Laden would appear threatening people with a story about what he was going to do," Castro told state media, according to The Associated Press (http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/08/27/cubas-fidel-castro-claims-al-qaida-leader-osama-bin-laden-agent/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fworld+(Internal+-+World+Latest+-+Text)). "Bush never lacked for bin Laden's support. He was a subordinate." The AP reports that Castro did not elaborate on where he derived this assessment save for that it came from WikiLeaks.
Castro is of course far from the first or only figure to make such claims, though he may be the most high-profile. Indeed, following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks (especially in the immediate aftermath), a number (http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/smgpubs/access/83218694.html?dids=83218694:83218694&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+05%2C+2001&author=Ian+Bruce%3B+geopolitics+editor&pub=The+Herald&desc=The+21-page+indictment+lays+out+the+case+against+bin+Lade n%3B+Lack+of+hard+evidence+disappoints+legal+exper t&pqatl=google) of journalists (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/jan/17/yemen.islam) pointed out that bin Laden, a Saudi, fought alongside the Afghan mujahedeen -- the country's homegrown militia that rose up against the Soviet invasion of 1979.
The American government did indeed provide the mujahedeen with funding as part of the broader Cold War, anti-Communist strategy (as depicted in the Tom Hanks film "Charlie Wilson's War (http://humanrights.change.org/blog/view/exit_charlie_wilson_godfather_of_afghan_mujahideen )"), but some allege that the CIA did much more than that, including possibly training bin Laden in security (http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/155236.stm).
Yet Castro's recent comments seem less in line with that tradition and more a function of his recent recovery from illness (http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/castro-makes-his-first-visit-in-years-outside-havana/19567592), which has seen him return to the outlandish vocal form for which he is famed. In June, for instance, he predicted that the U.S. and Israel would launch a nuclear strike on Iran (http://noticias.aol.com/2010/06/30/fidel-castro-foretells-nuclear-war/) before the quarterfinal rounds of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
"I am not a prophet or psychic," Castro said before the World Cup came and went without said nuclear strike, adding, "nobody told me a word regarding what's about to happen; everything is the result of what we now qualify as logical reasoning."
Such "logical reasoning" has also lead Castro to another time-honored conspiracy theory.
Castro aired his beliefs on the bin Laden-U.S. relationship as he was hosting Daniel Estulin (http://www.danielestulin.com/index.php/en), the Lithuanian-born author of "The True Story of the Bilderberg Group (http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/06/03/bilderberg-2010-begins-stoking-conspiracy-fires/)," and "The Secrets of Club Bilderberg," both of which the author says reveal "the hidden machinations of the leading politicians and businessmen of our time."
Fidel Castro: WikiLeaks Proves Osama bin Laden Works for the US Government
(Aug. 27) -- Is Osama bin Laden -- figurehead of al-Qaida and the most wanted (http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm) terror suspect in the world -- secretly working for the U.S. government? Former Cuban President Fidel Castro thinks so, and he says that WikiLeaks (http://www.aolnews.com/tag/wikileaks/) has the proof.
Today, Cuba's daily Communist Party newspaper published remarks made by the ailing 84-year-old socialist leader in which he accused the George W. Bush administration of hiring bin Laden to act as a kind of phantom bogeyman to scare the American people into going along with Bush's policies.
"Any time Bush would stir up fear and make a big speech, bin Laden would appear threatening people with a story about what he was going to do," Castro told state media, according to The Associated Press (http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/08/27/cubas-fidel-castro-claims-al-qaida-leader-osama-bin-laden-agent/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fworld+(Internal+-+World+Latest+-+Text)). "Bush never lacked for bin Laden's support. He was a subordinate." The AP reports that Castro did not elaborate on where he derived this assessment save for that it came from WikiLeaks.
Castro is of course far from the first or only figure to make such claims, though he may be the most high-profile. Indeed, following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks (especially in the immediate aftermath), a number (http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/smgpubs/access/83218694.html?dids=83218694:83218694&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+05%2C+2001&author=Ian+Bruce%3B+geopolitics+editor&pub=The+Herald&desc=The+21-page+indictment+lays+out+the+case+against+bin+Lade n%3B+Lack+of+hard+evidence+disappoints+legal+exper t&pqatl=google) of journalists (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/jan/17/yemen.islam) pointed out that bin Laden, a Saudi, fought alongside the Afghan mujahedeen -- the country's homegrown militia that rose up against the Soviet invasion of 1979.
The American government did indeed provide the mujahedeen with funding as part of the broader Cold War, anti-Communist strategy (as depicted in the Tom Hanks film "Charlie Wilson's War (http://humanrights.change.org/blog/view/exit_charlie_wilson_godfather_of_afghan_mujahideen )"), but some allege that the CIA did much more than that, including possibly training bin Laden in security (http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/155236.stm).
Yet Castro's recent comments seem less in line with that tradition and more a function of his recent recovery from illness (http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/castro-makes-his-first-visit-in-years-outside-havana/19567592), which has seen him return to the outlandish vocal form for which he is famed. In June, for instance, he predicted that the U.S. and Israel would launch a nuclear strike on Iran (http://noticias.aol.com/2010/06/30/fidel-castro-foretells-nuclear-war/) before the quarterfinal rounds of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
"I am not a prophet or psychic," Castro said before the World Cup came and went without said nuclear strike, adding, "nobody told me a word regarding what's about to happen; everything is the result of what we now qualify as logical reasoning."
Such "logical reasoning" has also lead Castro to another time-honored conspiracy theory.
Castro aired his beliefs on the bin Laden-U.S. relationship as he was hosting Daniel Estulin (http://www.danielestulin.com/index.php/en), the Lithuanian-born author of "The True Story of the Bilderberg Group (http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/06/03/bilderberg-2010-begins-stoking-conspiracy-fires/)," and "The Secrets of Club Bilderberg," both of which the author says reveal "the hidden machinations of the leading politicians and businessmen of our time."