On 7th Anniversary Of Attacks, White House Claims Bin Laden Was Not The ‘Mastermind’ of Sept. 11

[marmar]

.....Dana Perino's no mastermind, either. :dunce:



from ThinkProgress:



On 7th Anniversary Of Attacks, White House Claims Bin Laden Was Not The ‘Mastermind’ of Sept. 11»

Tomorrow marks the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. In a press conference today, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Dana Perino about the administration’s ongoing efforts to find Osama bin Laden, calling him the “mastermind” of 9/11. Perino interrupted the reporter, claiming bin Laden was not the true “mastermind” of the attacks:

Q But Osama bin Laden is the one that — you keep talking about his lieutenants, and, yes, they are very important, but Osama bin Laden was the mastermind of 9/11 –

PERINO: No, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the mastermind of 9/11, and he’s sitting in jail right now.

Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/10/seventh-anniversary-white-house/


Perino seems to be attempting to justify the White House’s failure to catch bin Laden by suggesting he was not the “mastermind.” But in September 2006, former press secretary Tony Snow stated:

Osama bin Laden, mastermind of September 11th, the person that many people talk about and still have concerns about, calls this fight, the fight in Iraq, “the third world war.”

While Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has admitted to being the “architect” of 9/11, bin Laden was not inconsequential; he approved and executed the attacks. KSM in fact, brought the idea to bin Laden, who according to the 9/11 Commission, “wanted to hit the White House, Pentagon and U.S. Capitol,” not just the World Trade Center.

Perino suggested that it would take “superpowers” to catch bin Laden. “So there are human limitations to any — this is not the movies, we don’t have superpowers,” she said. It didn’t, however, take “superpowers” to capture bin Laden at Tora Bora in late 2001, where he escaped in part because of a lack of troops.


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/10/seventh-anniversary-white-house/

[MGKrebs]

1. If he's not the mastermind, why is it harder to catch him that the Sheik?

He's apparently the master of something.

[NMDemDist2]

2. WTF!!??!!!!

:banghead:

[summer borealis]

3. Of course not

Dickwad Cheney was the mastermind.

[MadMaddie]

4. WOW! The rest of the world knows it is OBL but now the WH

is denying it. WTF?

This needs to be put out there.

[stray cat]

5. bullshit

[EC]

6. That means tomorrow they are going to claim that they

succeeded in capturing and punishing the people responsible for 9/11 and wow aren't we great....

[Chemical Bill]

7. OBL said he didn't do it.

DOHA, Qatar (CNN) -- Islamic militant leader Osama bin Laden, the man the United States considers the prime suspect in last week's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, denied any role Sunday in the actions believed to have killed thousands.

In a statement issued to the Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera, based in Qatar, bin Laden said, "The U.S. government has consistently blamed me for being behind every occasion its enemies attack it.

"I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seems to have been planned by people for personal reasons," bin Laden's statement said.

"I have been living in the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan and following its leaders' rules. The current leader does not allow me to exercise such operations," bin Laden said."



http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/16/inv.binladen.denial/

The FBI wants him, but for the embassy bombings, not 9/11:

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm

[cayuga]

8. What proof exists that bin Laden was involved?

Other than a videotape released by bushco to prove that binLaden was the mastermind.

If he is now not the mastermind, then there is no proof he was involved.