The Great American Taliban Scam
By Michael Bunker December 12, 2001 I don’t know about you, but I ain’t buyin’ it. Here’s the story we’re supposed to
believe: The spoiled son of a rich
former Justice Department official is captured while fighting for the Taliban. He is videotaped while being questioned by
two CIA field agents. The stoic
American warrior withstands his questioning without saying a word. Within hours,
an uprising occurs and one of the agents (the “good cop”) is killed. The
spoiled, rich American Taliban escapes, but is captured later. You can read about this fiction story in the
Time Magazine article: The
Taliban Next Door. This story stretches reality. It is
more Hollywood movie than true story. Let us examine the interrogation of John Walker Lindh. Lindh was interrogated by two veteran CIA
field agents, Mike Spann and another agent only identified as “Dave”. These two veteran field agents allowed
themselves to be videotaped violating at least 3 international laws regarding
the treatment of Prisoners of War.
First, realize that CIA field agents would be deathly resistant to being
filmed for ANY reason, much less while they are perpetrating violations of
International Law. Mike and Dave tell
Lindh that if he does not talk, that he will die there in the camp. It is a clear violation of the law to
threaten the execution or even the starvation of a prisoner. We will return to this scene later. There are other highly questionable items to
note. In the July/August issue of The Atlantic Online, former CIA
field agent Reuel Marc Gerecht wrote an article entitled THE
COUNTERTERRORISM MYTH. In that
Article, Gerecht makes a very important point:
It is nearly impossible to get Arabic speaking field agents into the
region between Peshawar, Pakistan and Kabul, Afghanistan because of the natural
aversion that the people have to westerners and any “new” faces. The region is full of battle trained men and
families, and it is riddled with “undercover” Pakistani ISI (secret service)
agents who are all Pro-Taliban/Pro Al-Qaeda.
Any western operation agent would be quickly spotted and “marked” by the
close-knit people of the region. So now we are to believe the most amazing set of
circumstances. John Walker Lindh, the
rich, spoiled son of Democratic Party activists, was able to do what the CIA
has reportedly been unable to do. Let’s
examine the achievements of Lindh: He was able to change his religion (from Catholicism to Islam)
without alarming his parents. (Not a shock, they were EXTREMELY liberal) He was able to get Mommy and Daddy to pay for him to fly to
Yemen where he entered an Arabic Language School (Read: Terrorism School). There he made contact with more extreme
Islamic fundamentalists who recruited him to go to Pakistan. The pasty-white American rich kid was able to “fit in” so
nicely with his terrorist buddies that he was recruited from there to go fight
with the Taliban in Afghanistan. He was so completely accepted by the Taliban and Al-Qaeda,
that he was privy to high level war and terrorism planning. He actually saw Bin Ladin on many occasions. Get this – He was able to accomplish all of this in a little
over a year and a half! The spoiled
rich California brat did what the CIA claims they could not do! Do you really buy this? Let’s go back to the POW camp for a minute. John Walker Lindh was so convicted of his
new Islamic ideals and his fundamental hatred for Western Capitalism and
Imperialism that less than 6 months prior to the “war” he called his Father
(former Clinton/Reno operative in the Justice Department) and had Daddy send
him $1200 so he could “go someplace warm”. This same Lindh was able to withstand his illegal
interrogation by two CIA field agents who were threatening him with death. He didn’t say a word. He held his tongue despite the
threats. He held his tongue while he
was ON VIDEO. Keep that in mind because
now that Lindh is OFF VIDEO, and NOT threatened with death or starvation, it
seems that he is singing like a songbird. On a personal note.
I have questioned the spoiled children of rich socialites. They usually are more than willing to spill
the beans. And I never threatened to
kill them. (Well maybe once or twice,
but you get the point.) Why was Lindh chosen to be interrogated? Because, it is
claimed, he was isolated from the rest of the Taliban prisoners. He was separated from them. Either he would not be with them, or they
would not be with him. Does this make any
sense? Would Lindh be shunned after he
had been so readily accepted by the Taliban?
Would he be ostracized when he had just recently (it is reported) been
wounded fighting for the Taliban? Would
Lindh have separated himself from them, knowing that it would draw the
attention of those Americans who had been sent there to find anyone who was
linked to Al-Qaeda? So Lindh is off by himself, separated from the rest of the “real”
Taliban in the camps. Noticing that he
is alone, he is chosen to be questioned by Mike Spann and “Dave”. Hours later, Mike Spann, who seemed to
realize that something wasn’t right, is killed during an “uprising” in the
camp. Note that the agent who is
killed, MIKE SPANN, is the only one of the two agents whose whole/real name is
released to the public. During the uprising, Lindh escapes, only to be recaptured by
U.S. forces and held by the Marines.
Now that he has been recaptured – he is telling everything he
knows. It just happens that his current
story meshes perfectly with the stories told by John Ashcroft and Tom Ridge. According to Lindh, the next “wave” of
attacks will happen after the end of Ramadan and it will involve biological
warfare. This allows
Ashcroft/Ridge/Bush to maintain a healthy level of fear and anxiety so that
they continue their assault on freedom, while helping to build the surveillance
superstate around the country. Notice, also, that this
new story (of a post Ramadan bio
attack) was leaked to Bill Gertz of the Washington Times (The Times is owned by
the Moonies). Do you really think that
Gertz has regular access to the interrogations of Prisoners of War, or is it
only that someone wants the new story to get out? Why is the top secret information gathered from the interrogation
of a Prisoner of War being leaked to the public? The evidence that the CIA/BUSH Cabal had prior knowledge
and/or participated in the events of September 11 is growing to overwhelming
status. Please read the latest TIMELINE of
proven/verified connections with 9/11. This, added to the reports by the French publication, Le Figaro that a CIA agent
visited Osama bin Laden last July. 'Figaro' reports that this meeting took
place while bin Laden was being treated in the American Hospital in Dubai, one
of the United Arab Emirates. According
to a story in the TIMES OF INDIA, the claim that Bin Ladin broke with the CIA
and the rest of the U.S. establishment (including his family) a decade ago is
less than credible. Those of you who have been regular followers of my Technology Videos
will note that going back as far as 1998, I have made these same claims. Claims that are only now becoming
mainstream. So now we are treated to the Great “American Taliban” Scam –
and we are left debating whether or not Lindh should be the first American
tried before a military tribunal for “terrorist” activities. Once again, I ask you, who profits from
this scam? The unbelievable story fits right in to the
Ashcroft/Bush/Ridge scenario. It proves
that Americans can be terrorists too.
It will likely be the precedent that the Homeland Security Gestapo uses
to strip American dissidents of their “citizenship” so that they can be tried
and executed as terrorists. Don’t ever say that I didn’t tell you. I am your servant in Christ Jesus, Michael Bunker
editor@lazarusunbound.com
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