His words created war: A mystery suicide

Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi -- the man's whose forced confession of an Iraq/al Qaeda link was cited as a justification for the Iraq invasion -- has died. He allegedly committed "suicide" in a Libyan jail.

BradBlog has been on this disturbing story for about a day. The Arab press is all over it -- yet very few representatives of the mainstream English-language media have picked up on it, aside from Reuters (here) and the U.K. Telegraph (here).

Al-libi ran the Al Qaeda training camp that you've endlessly seen in those video camps taken in the days before 9/11. He fled Afghanistan following the American invasion, only to be captured by Pakistani officials, who turned him over to the Americans at Kandahar airport. They, in turn, flew him to Egypt for "debriefing."

I find this sequence of events odd. Quite a few Al Qaeda personnel -- including Osama Bin Laden -- encountered no problems as they made their escape to Pakistan. The documentary film 9/11: Press for Truth offers evidence that the Americans allowed airplanes filled with lower-level Al Qaeda personnel to fly out of Kandahar airport -- the same facility where Al-libi was being kept.

In Egypt, al-Libi underwent a variety of tortures, including a 17-hour mock burial. Under duress, Al-libi told his interrogators that Saddam Hussein had provided Al Qaeda with trainers in the use of chemical/biological weapons.

Although the DIA quickly determined the falsity of these "confessions," Colin Powell used the bogus information during his infamous speech at the U.N., and Bush repeated the accusation a number of times in the run-up to war.

Over 40% of the American populace still believes that Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 attacks.

A Moroccan using the name Omar Nasiri, who says that he infiltrated Al Qaeda, later wrote a book which claims that al-Libi deliberately misled investigators with the intention of trapping America in a quagmire. The veracity of this book has been questioned. (One Amazon reviewer astutely notes that Nasiri protects himself with a pseudonym yet includes in his book much data which, if true, would quickly reveal his true identity to Al Qaeda.)

It seems likelier -- to me, at least -- that al-Libi told the Americans (or their Egyptian puppets) what they wanted to hear in order to avoid further pain. As we have noted in the past, the purpose of torture is not to extract truth.

At some point in late 2005 or early 2006, al-Libi was transferred to Libya (the nation of his birth), where he was kept in secret confinement. A source told Newsweek reporter Michael Isakoff that al-Libi suffered from tubercolosis and diabetes. Although the agony of tubercolosis might well have driven al-Libi to suicide, his death also conveniences the American government. Now the world well never know precisely what he underwent, or who told him to say what.

The group Human Rights Watch attempted to speak to al-Libi in Libya just last month.

He refused to be interviewed, and would say nothing more than: "Where were you when I was being tortured in American jails?"

Is it possible that the visit from Human Rights Watch somehow triggered the death? Why was al-Libi singled out and kept at Kandahar while so many other Al Qaeda fighters were allowed to make their way to Pakistan? Is the Egyptian government guilty of helping Bush begin a war under false pretenses?

There are numerous mysteries concerning Al Qaeda and the run-up to war. Alas, the disgusting 9/11 "truth movement" has hidden these issues beneath a veil of obnoxious behavior and bullshit theories about controlled demolition. Responsible people fear to do or say anything that might encourage the so-called "truthers," who still refuse to confront the basic fact that the world Trade Center buildings collapsed at the points of impact. The antics of that abominable conspiratorial subculture have disguised the real issues. In that sense, the CD-ers have proven themselves to be Bush's most effective aides.

(Don't even try it, trannies. You'll be deleted on sight.)