NP? conspiracy theories - article worth reading co-written by former P-lister

[Doug Millison]

"[...] As for all those mad theories about permitting the September 11
attacks to occur, or about remote control planes: they seem to add up to
the notion that America's foes are too incompetent to mount operations
unaided by US agencies, or that agencies aren't vast, bumbling
bureaucracies quite capable of ignoring or discounting warnings of an
attack.

But there is considerable wheat among the chaff. It's true that someone
gambled on those put options, that the profits from that gamble have
remained uncollected and that "Buzzy" Krongard is an interesting character
who did go from the post of vice-chairman of Banker's Trust/A.B.Brown (now
owned by DeutscheBank) which handled many of the put option bets, to the
CIA of which he is now executive director.

It is true that the CIA ushered bin Laden into Afghanistan and it is true
that the CIA was complicit in Afghanistan's emergence in the 1980s as the
West's leading supplier of opium and morphine, just as the Agency helped
construct the cave redoubts of Tora Bora. The US taxpayers underwrote that
construction, just as they're underwriting the destruction.

That's not conspiracy-mongering. That's true. "


from:
January 11, 2002

Conspiracy Goes Mainstream

Forbidden Truths?

By Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair


http://www.counterpunch.org/