Member of the notorious Belfer Center, Richard Clarke, has promoted the tale that the CIA (and FBI) “knew” in advance that Al Qaeda was planning a terrorist attack, and also about multiple 9/11 hijackers that without proper flight training supposedly crashed 3 huge passenger planes into buildings that disappeared without a trace (the 4th plane also mysteriously disappeared after supposedly crashing, after heroic intervention by the passengers on the plane).
Richard Clarke’s ties to the Saudi and Abu Dhabi royals (UAE) seem more interesting, if they are true that is which I cannot verify (and it seems hard to believe, unless stories about the Abu Dhabi royals are blatantly censored, we would’ve heard about this!)…
Richard Clarke tipped off Bin Laden’s high-ranking UAE and Saudi friends, preventing the capture or killing of the terrorist mastermind.
In September 1994, high-ranking UAE and Saudi government ministers, including UAE dictator Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (!), Abu Dhabi royal Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum and Saudi minister Prince Turki al-Faisal, started bird hunting trips in Afghanistan, with Bin Laden:
They would go out and see Osama, spend some time with him, talk with him, you know, live out in the tents, eat the simple food, engage in falconing, some other pursuits, ride horses.
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In early February 1999, Richard Clarke met Al-Maktoum, who financed the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Also in 1999, Richard Clarke personally sabotaged 2 CIA attempts to kill or capture Bin Laden.
The first of these was when the CIA learned that Osama was hunting with UAE royals in Afghanistan, and President Clinton couldn’t authorise attacking the camp, as Clarke voted down that plan (it seems unlikely that Clarke could vote down the president!).
The second time, when the CIA was again preparing to take Bin Laden out during another Afghanistan hunting trip, Clarke alerted his UAE buddies that the CIA was monitoring their meetings with Bin Laden, who in turn tipped off Bin Laden (so the CIA’s plan was sabotaged).
Osama’s UAE hunting buddy Sheikh Al-Maktoum later tried to take over 6 major US ports, which failed despite George W. Bush’s lobbying.
Clarke also promoted lies about a man called Abu Zubaydah, whose torture testimony is behind much of the 9/11 Commission Report.
In 2009, even the US government admitted that all of those claims were false and Zubaydah was never associated with al Qaeda!
In the 1980s, Clarke was President Reagan’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence. In that role, Clarke negotiated for US military bases in Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.
In 1984, Clarke took part in the secret Continuity of Government (COG) program, which also included as members: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George H.W. Bush, Kenneth Duberstein, and James Woolsey. The COG was first activated during the attacks of 11 September 2001. This installed a shadow government as an “indefinite precaution”, it isn’t clear to me when (if?) this shadow government actually ended.
George H.W. Bush also appointed Richard Clarke as Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs, until 1992. In this role Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney asked him to coordinate relations with the UAE. Since then, Clarke negotiated so many deals with the Emirates, that he essentially became a UAE agent, very close to the Abu Dhabi royal family.
In the early 1990s, the Abu Dhabi royals took over full ownership of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).
Bush then appointed named Clarke to the National Security Council staff as Special Assistant to the President and he became chairman of the Interagency Counterterrorism Committee.
In the summer of 1994, Clarke played a leading role in orchestrating the Rwanda genocide.
In 2013, President Obama appointed Richard Clarke to his advisory panel on NSA spying.
In 2014, Clarke was the chairman of Good Harbor Consulting, working with many people that made a fortune off the War on Terror. Good Harbor has an office in Abu Dhabi.
Clarke was also part of Paladin Capital, with another 9/11 insider and COG crook, former CIA Director and Rhodes scholar James Woolsey. Paladin has offices in New York and the UAE:
http://digwithin.net/2014/02/02/real-clarke/
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