Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:00:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Thomas Seay <entheogens-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: AUT: Translation of "Le Figaro" Article


Here's my translation of the "Le Figaro article on Bin
Laden's meeting with CIA...didn't proofread it too
much
because I wanted to translate in a hurry but
it is faithful to the original...see what you think.
-Thomas
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Le Figaro

Alexandra Richard
October 31, 2001 page 2

Dubai, one of the seven emirates of the federation of
United Arab 
Emirate
in the north-east of Abu Dhabi.  This city of 350,000
inhabitants
was the discreet locus of a secret meeting between
Osama Ben Laden
and the local representative of the CIA, in July.  A
member of
the administration of the American Hospital of Dubai
confirms
that the public enemy number one stayed in the
hospital from July 4th
to July 14th.

Arriving from the airport of Quetta, Pakistan, Osama
Ben laden
was transferred upon arrival at Dubai airport. 
Accompanied by his
personal doctor and faithful lieutenant, the Egyptian
Ayman al-Zawahari
(though on this latter, the testimony of the
eyewitness was not formal)
, as well as by four body guards and an algerian
nurse, Bin Laden was 
admitted
to the American Hospital, a building of glass and
marble situated 
between
Al-Garhoud Bridge and Al-Maktoum bridge.

Each story of the hospital has two VIP suites and
around 15 rooms.
The millionaire saudi was admitted to the reknowned
department of urology head by Dr. Terry Callaway, an
expert
on kidney stones and male infertility.  In the course
of several
telephone calls, Callway did not wish to respond to
our
questions.

In March of 2000 the weekly journal, Asia Week,
published in Hong Kong,
raised questions about Ben Laden's health, stating
that he suffered
form a serious physical problem and more precisely
that he was in 
danger
due to a kidney infection that had spread to the liver
and required the 
care of a specialist.  According to legitimate
sources, Ben Laden
had delivered to a post in Kandahar a mobile dialysis
machine
sometime in the first part of the year 2000. 
According to our sources,
"this trip for reasons of Ben Laden's health" was not
the first.  
Between
1996 and 1998, Osama ben Laden went to Dubai several
times for health 
purposes.

On September 27th, 15 days after the World Trade
Center attacks,
prompted by the request of America, the Central Bank
of Arab Emirates
froze the accounts and investments of 26 people or
organizations
suspected of contact with the Ben Laden organization,
notably those
of the Dubai Islamic Bank.

"Relations with the Arabian Emirates have always been
close", explains
our source.  The princes of the royal families which
had recognized
the taliban regime, visited Afganistan frequently.  A
prince of one
of the royal families regularly partook of hunts on 
property owned
by Ben Laden, whom he had known and socialized with
for a number of 
years.

Daily flights between Dubai and Quetta are guaranteed
by both Pakistan
Airlines and the Emirate airlines.  Emirate and saudi
private aircraft
fly to Quetta frequently even though these are not
recorded in
the flight plans at the airport.

Thoroughout his stay in the hospital, Osamma Ben Laden
received
visits from many family members and saudi arabian and
emirate 
personalites
of status.   During this time, the local
representative of the CIA
was seen by many people taking the elevator and going
to Ben Laden's
room.

Several days later the CIA person bragged to his
friends about
having visited the saudi millionaire.  From
authoritative sources,
this CIA agent visited CIA headquarters July 15th, the
day after
the Ben Laden's departure for Quetta.

At the end of July, emirate customs officials arrested
a 
franco-algerian
islamic activist, Djamel Beghal at the airport of
Dubai.  At the 
beginning
of August, French and American authorities are
notified.  Interrogated
by local authorities in Abu Dhabi, Begal says that he
had been
called to Afghanistan at the end of 2000 by Abou
Zoubeida-Quaida.
Beghal's mission was to blow up the US Embassy, avenue
Gabriel,
near the Place de la Concorde in Paris, upon his
return to France.

According to various arabic diplomatic sources and
french intelligence 
itself,
precise information was communicated to the CIA
concerning terrorist 
attacks aimed at american interests in the world,
including within its
own territory.

In August, at the US Embassy in Paris, an emergency
meeting was
called with the DGSE and the highest american
officials.
Extremely bothered, these latter requested from their
french peers
exact details about the algerian activists, without
explaining
exactly where the nature of their inquiry.  When asked
the question,
"what do you fear in the coming days?", the americans
responded with
incomprihensible silence.

Contact between the CIA and Ben Laden goes back to
1979 when, 
representing
the family business in Istanbul, Ben laden begins to
enrol volunteers
from the arab-muslim world for the afghan resistance
agains the Red 
Army.
Looking into the attacks of August 1998 on the
American Embassies
in Nairobi, Keny  and  Dares-Salam, Tanzania, FBI
investigators
discovered that the traces left by the blast indicated
that
they were from an american militairy explosive and
that these
explosives had been delivered three years before to
Afghan arabs,
the famous international brigage of volunteers,
fighting on the side
of Osama Bin Laden during the Afghanis war against the
Soviet army.

On further investigation, the FBI discovered certain
<<plans>
that had been put together between the CIA and its
"islamic friends"
over the years.  The meeting in Dubai is, so it would
seem,
consistent with a "certain american policy".




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