Plans For Afghan Invasion Before 9/11

[saif]

U.S. plans to remove the Taliban prior to September 11, 2001
NBC News reported in May 2002 that a formal National Security Presidential Directive submitted two days before September 11, 2001 had outlined essentially the same war plan that the White House, the CIA and the Pentagon put into action after the Sept. 11 attacks. The plan dealt with all aspects of a war against al-Qaida, ranging from diplomatic initiatives to military operations in Afghanistan, including outlines to persuade Afghanistan’s Taliban government to turn al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden over to the United States, with provisions to use military force if it refused.

According to a 2004 report by the bipartisan commission of inquiry into 9/11, on the very next day, one day before the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Bush administration agreed on a plan to oust the Taliban regime in Afghanistan by force if it refused to hand over Osama bin Laden. At that September 10 meeting of the Bush administration's top national security officials it was agreed that the Taliban would be presented with a final ultimatum to hand over Bin Laden. Failing that, covert military aid would be channelled by the U.S. to anti-Taliban groups. And, if both those options failed, "the deputies agreed that the United States would seek to overthrow the Taliban regime through more direct action."

However, an article published in March 2001 by Jane's, a media outlet serving the military and intelligence communities, suggests that the United States had already been planning and taking just such action against the Taliban six months before September 11, 2001. According to Jane's, Washington was giving the Northern Alliance information and logistics support as part of concerted action with India, Iran, and Russia against Afghanistan's Taliban regime, with Tajikistan and Uzbekistan being used as bases.

The BBC News reported that, according to a Pakistani diplomat, Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, had been told by senior American officials in mid-July 2001 that military action against Afghanistan would proceed by the middle of October at the latest. The message was conveyed during a meeting on Afghanistan between senior U.S., Russian, Iranian, and Pakistani diplomats. The meeting was the third in a series of meetings on Afghanistan, with the previous meeting having been held in March 2001. During the July 2001 meeting, Mr. Naik was told that Washington would launch its military operation from bases in Tajikistan - where American advisers were already in place - and that the wider objective was to topple the Taliban regime and install another government in place.

An article in The Guardian on September 26, 2001 also adds evidence that there were already signs in the first half of 2001 that Washington was moving to threaten Afghanistan militarily from the north, via Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. A U.S. Department of Defense official, Dr. Jeffrey Starr, visited Tajikistan in January 2001 and U.S. General Tommy Franks visited the country in May 2001, conveying a message from the Bush administration that the US considered Tajikistan "a strategically significant country". U.S. Army Rangers were training special troops inside Kyrgyzstan, and there were unconfirmed reports that Tajik and Uzbek special troops were training in Alaska and Montana. Reliable western military sources say a U.S. contingency plan existed on paper by the end of the summer to attack Afghanistan from the north, with U.S. military advisors already in place in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

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[Luqman]

It is common practice for all Defence Departments and Defence Strategists to come up with these types of plans and situations.

It is probably a coincidence.

An example of this that involves Australia is the recent publication of a white paper discussing the rising threat of a militarised China. This really upset the Chinese, but it's a behaviour that we have learned off the Americans and British.

[Abdraheim]

did u even read the whole quote?

[Luqman]

Yep

[Abdraheim]

[Luqman]

I used to be a Spin Doctor...

[Adelaidean]

check this out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD06SAf0p9A

steel-melting fire can jump over buildings, and bring down other ones, and make them collapse in on themselves.. lol

[abu rashid]

The fact they already had the desire to invade Afghanistan lends some credibility to the theory it was an inside job. Also the fact they've been trying for a long time to build a gas pipeline through there, and the fact that the man they put in charge (Karzai) just happened to work for the company that was supposed to put the pipeline etc. etc.

It's quite clear that there is a lot more to this than any of us is going to know for sure for the next 20-100 years. Perhaps at some time, within our lifetimes, some of the facts will come out about what happened. Probably not until it's irrelevant though, and all the damage is done.

One thing I do know though is that the WTC towers had a very similar 'impact' on Bush's career, as the Reichstag did on Hitler's...

[Palo $oldier]

has anyone seen in plane site 9/11??

[Adelaidean]

has anyone seen in plane site 9/11??

no, but this is good, http://www.911missinglinks.com
It's really a no brainer that israel was involved if you think rationally.

[Adelaidean]

The fact they already had the desire to invade Afghanistan lends some credibility to the theory it was an inside job. Also the fact they've been trying for a long time to build a gas pipeline through there, and the fact that the man they put in charge (Karzai) just happened to work for the company that was supposed to put the pipeline etc. etc.

It's quite clear that there is a lot more to this than any of us is going to know for sure for the next 20-100 years. Perhaps at some time, within our lifetimes, some of the facts will come out about what happened. Probably not until it's irrelevant though, and all the damage is done.

One thing I do know though is that the WTC towers had a very similar 'impact' on Bush's career, as the Reichstag did on Hitler's...

Except the communists really were trying to strangle europe.

[Placings]

The Taliban were in Houston, Texas long before 9/11 discussing gas pipeline projects and deals with oil company executives.

[saif]

The Taliban were in Houston, Texas long before 9/11 discussing gas pipeline projects and deals with oil company executives.

Yeah except the plans fell though when the Taliban baulked at the percentages the Americans wanted of the profits. Then the Taliban started doing deals with the Chinese Government, this must have infuriated the US. No wonder they started making invasion plans.