Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00312)

Gordon Thomas since recently has a book out where he claims that 
Beijing had an actual role in the Sept. 11 attack on America. 
In "Seeds of Fire," Thomas purports to show how Beijing is 
positioning itself to become America's "new major enemy."
Thomas points out that on Sept. 11, a transport plane from Beijing 
landed in Kabul. A Chinese delegation had gone to Afghanistan to sign 
a deal with the Taliban - reportedly brokered by Osama bin Laden - to 
provide the Afghans with missile-tracking technology, state-of-the-
art communications and air-defense systems. In return, says Thomas, 
the Taliban would order Muslim separatists in northwest China to stop 
their activities. 
  
In a Sept. 13 report, the Washington Post confirmed that Beijing had 
just signed a deal with the Taliban to provide Afghanistan "with much 
needed infrastructure and economic development assistance." 
  
Due to the fall of the Taliban at the hands of opposition forces and 
the United States, however, "the goods were never delivered," Thomas 
tells in this new book.
The delegation, says Thomas, included senior officers of the People's 
Liberation Army and the Bureau of State Security, as well as managers 
from two of China's leading defense contractors. 
  
In his book, Thomas contends that hours after the plane landed in 
Kabul, CIA Director George Tenet received a coded "red alert" message 
from Israeli Mossad agents that presented a "worst case scenario" - 
that China would use a surrogate, bin Laden, to attack the United 
States. 
  
Thomas also claims that the head of Pakistan's intelligence service 
was in Washington to meet with Tenet on Sept. 11, and that he briefed 
Tenet that day on the links between bin Laden and China. 
  
The intelligence agent "told that China had made a decisive 
decision," wrote Thomas. "It was prepared to infuriate America and 
its allies in supporting bin Laden and the Taliban because 
Afghanistan fitted into China's own long-term strategic plans." 
  
Saying that bin Laden has traveled to China numerous times to meet 
with officials there, Thomas contends that "almost certainly he 
talked to them about obtaining" material to build weapons of mass 
destruction. 
  
China's President Jiang Zemin, adds Thomas, waited three days to 
contact Bush about the Sept. 11 attack and told the U.S. president 
that, vis-à-vis the war on terrorism, China would find itself in 
a "difficult situation, given our well-known position of opposing any 
interference in the internal affairs of any country." 
  
Washington sources say that Bush "gritted his teeth and said he would 
push on without China," Thomas writes. 

On the lighter side, Chinese filmdirector Long Zanxu just offered  
Jenna Bush the part of heroine Nancy Lee in a 100-million-yuan (12.06-
million-dollar) production called "Hero Defending Country", no 
kidding.

Brigitte

PS o yes, and there is one book I can heartely recommend to Daniel, 
David Sereda's , "Face to Face With Jesus Christ".