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Can not verify accuracy of translation; this report is being 
distributed by Jared Israel, a critic of U.S. policy, from the 
Emperors-Clothes Website.  The URL for this article is -
<a href="http://emperors-clothes.com/misc/lefigaro.htm">http://emperors-clothes.com/misc/lefigaro.htm> 
  CS

CIA agent allegedly met bin Laden in July
 From 'Le Figaro' [1 November 2001]
Translated by Tiphaine Dickson


By Alexandra Richard
(Page 2, October 31st, 2001)

Dubai, one of the seven emirates of the Federation of the United Arab 
Emirates, North-East of Abi-Dhabi. This city, population 350,000, was 
the backdrop of a secret meeting between Osama bin Laden and the 
local CIA agent in July. A partner of the administration of the 
American Hospital in Dubai claims that public enemy number one stayed 
at this hospital between the 4th and 14th of July.

Having taken off from the Quetta airport in Pakistan, bin Laden was 
transferred to the hospital upon his arrival at Dubai airport. He was 
accompanied by his personal physician and faithful lieutenant, who 
could be Ayman al-Zawahari--but on this sources are not entirely 
certain--, four bodyguards, as well as a male Algerian nurse, and 
admitted to the American Hospital, a glass and marble building 
situated between the Al-Garhoud and Al-Maktoum bridges.

Each floor of the hospital has two "VIP" suites and fifteen rooms. 
The Saudi billionnaire was admitted to the well-respected urology 
department run by Teerry Callaway, gallstone and infertility 
specialist. Dr Callaway declined to respond to our questions despite 
several phone calls.

As early as March, 2000, 'Asia Week,' published in Hong Kong, 
expressed concern for bin Laden's health, describing a serious 
medical problem that could put his life in danger because of "a 
kidney infection that is propagating itself to the liver and requires 
specialized treatment". According to authorized sources, bin Laden 
had mobile dialysis equipment shipped to his hideout in Kandahar in 
the first part of 2000. According to our sources, bin Laden's 
"travels for health reasons" have taken place before. Between 1996 
and 1998, bin Laden made several trips to Dubai on business.

On September 27th, 15 days after the World Trade Center attacks, at 
the request of the United States, the Central Bank of the Arab 
Emirates announced an order to freeze assts and investments of 26 
people or organisations suspected of mainting contact with bin 
Laden's organization, and in particular at the Dubai Islamic Bank.

"Relations between the Emirate and Saudi Arabia have always been very 
close," according to sources, "princes of reigning families, having 
recognized the Taliban regime, often travelled to Afghanistan. One of 
the princes of a ruling family regularily went hunting on the land of 
bin Laden, whom he had known and visited for many years."

There are daily flights between Dubai and Quetta by both Pakistan and 
Emirates Airlines. As to private planes from Saudi Arabia or from the 
Emirates, they regulariy fly to Quetta, where their arrival is rarely 
registered in airport logs.

While he was hospitalised, bin Laden received visits from many 
members of his family as well as prominent Saudis and Emiratis. 
During the hospital stay, the local CIA agent, known to many in 
Dubai, was seen taking the main elevator of the hospital to go to bin 
Laden's hospital room.

A few days later, the CIA man bragged to a few friends about having 
visited bin Laden. Authorised sources say that on July 15th, the day 
after bin Laden returned to Quetta, the CIA agent was called back to 
headquarters.

In late July, Emirates customs agents arrested Franco-Algerian 
activist Djamel Beghal at the Dubai airport. In early August, French 
and American authorities were advised of the arrest. Interrogated by 
local authorities in Abu Dhabi, Beghal stated that he was called to 
Afghanistan in late 2000 by Abou Zoubeida, a military leader of bin 
Laden's organization, Al Qaeda. Beghal's mission: bomb the US embassy 
on Gabriel avenue, near the Place de la Concorde, upon his return to 
France.

According to Arab diplomatic sources as well as French intelligence, 
very specific information was transmitted to the CIA with respect to 
terrorist attacks against American interests around the world, 
including on US soil. A DST report dated 7 September enumerates all 
the intelligence, and specifies that the order to attack was to come 
from Afghanistan.

In August, at the US Embassy in Paris, an emergency meeting was 
called between the DGSE (French foreign intelligence service) and 
senior US intelligence officials. The Americans were extremely 
worried, and requested very specific information from the French 
about Algerian activists, without advising their counterparts about 
the reasons for their requests. To the question "what do you fear in 
the coming days?", the Americans kept a difficult-to-fathom silence.

Contacts between the CIA and bin Laden began in 1979 when, as a 
representative of his family's business, bin Laden began recruiting 
volunteers for the Afghan resistance against the Red Army. FBI 
investigators examining the embassy bombing sites in Nairobi and Dar 
es Salaam discovered that evidence led to military explosives from 
the US Army, and that these explosives had been delivered three years 
earlier to Afghan Arabs, the infamous international volunteer 
brigades involved side by side with bin Laden during the Afghan war 
against the Red Army.

In the pursuit of its investigations, the FBI discovered "financing 
agreements" that the CIA had been developing with its "arab friends" 
for years. The Dubai meeting is then within the logic of "a certain 
American policy".

(c) Le Figaro 2001

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