After ten years of unavailing hunt after a man who was proclaimed the personification of the world evil, U.S. President has announced that “justice had finally triumphed”. Crowds of joyous Americans have gathered by the White House. Terrorist No 1 has been killed. That’s right about time to think of whom he was and whom he’ll become after death.
After ten years of unavailing hunt after a man who was proclaimed the personification of the world evil, U.S. President has announced that “justice had finally triumphed”. Crowds of joyous Americans have gathered by the White House. Terrorist No 1 has been killed. That’s right about time to think about whom he was and whom he’ll become after death.
Hero of the “Cyclone” operation got out of hand
Course of life of Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden reminds a breath-taking adventure novel. Expatriate from the family of poor Yemeni peasants and the seventeenth child (out of 52) in the huge family of Mohammed bin Laden, graduate of business and administration faculty of the King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, he became a Herostratus of the 21st century. It’s hard to say if he ever dreamed of such extraordinary popularity, but today there’s probably not a single man unaware of him. Biography of Osama bin Laden is yet about to be written and there’s probably will be more than one. Yet, the plot — so winning from the commercial point of view — will hardly be ever turned into a Hollywood screenplay. Too many episodes from life of the main contemporary terrorist present his main opponent — the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency — in an unseemly light. The fact the bin Laden himself is a creation of CIA is not a secret for anyone today. He became the central figure of the “Cyclone” operation that American intelligence was carrying out at the Afghani territory for years. It intended to organize the Mujahidin movement to resist Soviet Army, “limited contingent” of which was brought to this country by Soviet leadership in 1979. Thanks to this operation bin Laden became an implacable warrior against the “faithless ones” and a financial tycoon as well. Multibillion financial aid was rendered to Talibs via the commercial companies that belonged to him and his companies also got the tremendous construction and weapon supply contracts. All of that has made the Terrorist No 1 a very wealthy man, a multibillionaire in fact. As it often happens, afterwards the agent got out of hands of his supervisors and turned into an independent power, aimed against those who brought him up. Having felt the threat, CIA has undertaken the first assassination attempt against the Frankenstein it created as far back as in the 90s, having lured him for treatment into one of Egyptian clinics, but the attempt failed and bin Laden promised to revenge his benefactors. We have to admit that he succeeded at that, but the CIA paid its debt as well. After many-years-long vain attempts to finish off the personification of the world evil, on the 1st of May, 2011 it was finally wiped out. Americans killed the evil that they had given life to.
Failure 2009: Jordanian happened to be a double agent
After the events of the 11th of September, 2001, bin Laden has officially become the target No 1 for American special services. Rewards for his capture or murder have been multiplied with each passing year until they’ve finally reached a fantastic quota of $50 million. George Bush Jr. has made his assassination one of the top priorities of his presidency. Yet the failures have been seemingly chasing Americans. In December of 2009, when the luck seemed to be closer than ever, not just a disappointment, but an entire tragedy befell the CIA.
Operation of many moves that featured double agent of the CIA and Jordan secret police Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi became the bloodiest CIA operation since the explosion of American embassy in Beirut in 1983, when 8 intelligence officers died. 36-year-old al-Balawi was born in Zarqa, the second largest Jordanian city. His fellow compatriot Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who headed the Iraqi branch of Al Qaeda, was killed by Americans in 2006. After American occupation of Iraq, al-Balawi became a jihadi. Writing under the pen name Abu Dujana al-Khurasani, he conducted a profound propagandistic work in the Internet, calling everyone to take part in jihad. In December of 2007 Jordanian secret police arrested him and soon inclined him to covert cooperation. Being released, he started to report on his fellow-thinkers. Since the very beginning of anti-terrorist war Jordan has been rendering substantial aid to the USA, organizing the notorious secret CIA prisons at its territory. Elimination of al-Zarqawi was also a Jordanian merit. In autumn of 2009, in concordance with American intelligence, Jordanian police send al-Balawi to Pakistani-Afghani border area, where he, playing a volunteer, should have been joined the ranks of warriors against the “faithless ones”. Former CIA officer Bruce Riedel — current aide of President Obama on the anti-terrorist matters — believes that al-Balawi managed to find bin Laden’s refuge, but instead of giving it away to Americans, he followed bin Laden’s orders and hit the CIA operatives. Al-Qaeda representatives claim that in fact Jordanian was their own agent, planted to the CIA: “For months he has been plying between Afghanistan and Pakistan, feeding Americans with pieces of information, Talibs prepared for them. He managed to win over the CIA trust, having pulled the wool over their eyes for almost a year”.
In the beginning of December al-Balawi told his supervisor from Jordanian intelligence that he had information of extreme importance for him. This officer (relative of the King Abdullah II, by the way) came to Afghanistan in order to bring his agent to Americans. The meeting took place on the 30th of December, 2009 at American Camp Salerno base in the Khost province of Afghanistan. Jordanian captain and CIA officers have brought the agent to the base themselves — mind that security guards, who tried to search him, were forbidden to do so. One of Americans just flung to the guards: “Don’t, the guy’s ours”. Having arrived to the territory of the base, they all came to a gym, where al-Balawi approached a table, took a sheet of paper and started drawing the scheme of place, where bin Laden allegedly hid. When his supervisors approached the table to have a closer look at the scheme he blew the bomb. Seven Americans and the Jordanian captain died along with him and six more people were wounded.
That’s how the car that al-Balawi came to Camp Salerno at, looked after the explosion of 30th of December, 2009. Photo by Associated Press
Middle Eastern Che Guevara, isn’t he?
Turkish journalists have got to the personal life of the suicide bomber. It turned out that he was married to Turkish woman named Defne Bayrak. They’ve met in Istanbul, where al-Balawi was studying medicine. In 2001 they’ve married and in 2002 — moved to Jordan, where future terrorist has completed his medical education. Al-Balawi’s widow has met the journalists of Anatolian information agency wearing a yashmak.
Defne Bayrak — widow of a triple agent, who killed seven CIA operatives
Photo by Associated Press
“I’m proud of my husband. I only hope for the Lord to appraise his martyrdom. My husband fought against the American aggression” — that is the brief summary of her interview. If we have a closer look at her activity, that won’t seem surprising. Defne translates Islamist literature from Arabian and spreads it among her supporters in Turkey. List of books she translated includes the one of Saddam Hussein’s authorship that has an impressive name “Begone, Demons”. She features certain literary ambitions herself as well. She published her book “Osama bin Laden. Middle Eastern Che Guevara” in Turkey. Defne told that in March of 2009 her husband left for Pakistan, to work as a surgeon there. “He felt such hatred towards the USA, that he could have never become a CIA agent. He might have used both Americans and Jordanians for his own goals, though”. According to her, on the 19th of January, 2009 20 police agents have broken into her home. They’ve seized her husband and his computer, because he wrote a lot about jihad in the Internet. Actually, al-Balawi was an active propagandist of the “holy war”. On the 29th of December, 2008 he published an article, illustrated with photos of two murdered Muslim women. His comment said: “Everyone who sees these photos and not rushes to a war cannot truly call himself a man”. Widow speaks of her late husband with great tenderness: “He never applied to violence at home. I love him. I have to tell my daughters why their father has left us. They will miss him, but they will be proud, too”.
Alas, violence can only bring violence and hatred in return. Today, when America is celebrating the murder of Terrorist No 1 as a national holiday, we willy-nilly think about reaction of the other side — the one that may actually praise Osama bin Laden as the Middle Eastern Che Guevara.
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