Trump wants to attack Iran over bogus charges?

"the CIA has released files seized in the raid" should be read as "the CIA has doctored files to be released as seized in the raid". They are running out of options to implicate Iran! They expect people to believe he had a 1/2 million documents in his house....LOL unbelievable!

Regime-change rumblings? New CIA release suggests Iran conspired with Osama bin Laden

RT : 3 Nov, 2017

Six-and-a-half years after the US military killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, the CIA has released files seized in the raid. Some of the documents purport to show a link between Iran and al-Qaeda, although not everybody is convinced.

Despite being buried at sea shortly after being shot dead by members of SEAL Team 6 in May 2011, the spirit of al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden seems very much alive. Indeed, even in death he continues to provide a justification for censure of particular governments, and more often than not those that are declared enemies of the US.

The nearly half-million documents seized from bin Laden’s compound on the Afghan-Pakistan border include, among other things, Hollywood films, information on the group's plans to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, bin Laden’s handwritten journal and plans to rehabilitate the al-Qaeda’s "tarnished image" in the Muslim community.

The real shocker discovered among the assorted paraphernalia, however, was alleged proof of “secret dealings” between Tehran and al-Qaeda from a “never-before-seen 19-page document.” This was allegedly written by a senior member of al-Qaeda and is said to provide information on plans between Iran and the terrorist group to attack US interests in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.

The document is said to provide “new insight into the often-adversarial relationship between al-Qaeda and Iran — the Sunni Muslim terror group and the Shiite republic,” AP reported. It then went on to provide a quote by the Long War Journal, which described the document as "a senior jihadist's assessment of the group's relationship with Iran." The “well-connected” al-Qaeda official believed to have authored the document wrote that in return for carrying out attacks on US and Saudi targets, Shiite Iran offered Sunni militants "money, arms” and “training in Hezbollah camps in Lebanon."

Curious timing

Skeptics, however, were quick to point out the uncanny timing of the document’s release, coming just weeks after Trump decertified the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), an agreement forged during the Obama administration between Iran and six world powers — Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the US — to regulate Iran’s nuclear program. The US leader’s controversial decision to turn up the pressure on Tehran, seemingly without good cause, sparked global outcry and threatened to isolate the Trump administration even further on the global stage.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Washington does not have the right to unilaterally revoke a deal that was the product of tough negotiations between multiple states. “It is not a bilateral agreement. It does not belong to any single country. And it is not up to any single country to terminate it,” Mogherini said. “It is a multilateral agreement, which was unanimously endorsed by the United Nations Security Council.”

Meanwhile, a former CIA analyst who resigned from the agency over misgivings with the Trump administration, Edward Price, has expressed public skepticism of the CIA claims. In a lengthy thread posted to Twitter, Price suggested we are witnessing an intelligence agency “ploy” similar to the one that preceded the 2003 attack on Iraq, although this time it is Iran that may be the new candidate for regime change.

“The CIA released what it claims are the final public files from Bin Laden's lair. I'm all for transparency, but this isn't about that,” Price wrote. He went to note that in January, the DNI [Director of National Intelligence], which led the declassification work, released what it said was the last tranche of Bin Laden files. The DNI concluded that, with the January release, all those of public interest were released.

“But a funny thing happened when CIA Director Pompeo came into office,” Price wrote. “I'm told he re-launched a review of the files. In doing so, he took officers away from important missions to pore – and re-pore – over the millions of documents. How can we be sure this was a CIA effort? Unlike previous releases, today's files are hosted on CIA.gov, not the DNI site. Why would he do that? It seems he's convinced the unreleased files would tie al-Qaeda to Iran.”

After all, it was due to the CIA’s “bad intelligence” on Iraq and its alleged cooperation with al-Qaeda militants, which led to the invasion and overthrow of the government of Saddam Hussein by the Bush administration.

According to the Christian Science Monitor, reporting just days before the US incursion into Iraq, “there is no evidence that Hussein played a role in the Sept. 11 attacks, nor that he has been or is currently aiding al-Qaeda. Yet the White House appears to be encouraging this false impression, as it seeks to maintain American support for a possible war against Iraq and demonstrate seriousness of purpose to Hussein's regime,” it wrote, quoting sources knowledgeable about US intelligence.

"The administration has succeeded in creating a sense that there is some connection [between Sept. 11 and Saddam Hussein]," Steven Kull, director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland, told CSM.

Although there is no way to prove any sinister intentions on the part of the CIA and the Trump administration with regards to the sudden discovery of this document, it will be very difficult to convince Iran otherwise.

This is the fourth CIA release of bin Laden documents since the first trove of documents was published in May 2015.

Selected Comments:

# They are professional liars, a lot more so in CIA then FBI. It is hard to imagine that any real honest person would ever want to work there.

# Bin Laden died of kidney failure more than ten years before he was 'murdered' by the US. That is why the US didn't parade him around like they did Hussein and Gaddafi before murdering him for the whole world to see.

# it wont be surprising if the american people will fall for this and make an anti Iran hollywood movie. Hollywood is working on that movie or maybe they've already made it and are just waiting for the most opportune time to release it to work gullible Americans into a war frenzy against Iran. Americans are so gullible and easily led down the wrong path by their corrupt politicians. They're just like children who believe the easter bunny and santa claus are real.

# Bin Laden died just one year after 9/11 from kidney failure. Seal Team 6 did not capture Bin Laden which is why they were all killed off in a 'attack' causing their helicopter to explode and crash.

# There is no doubt that the CIA have found an Iranian passport among the documents seized at Bin Laden's house. This is enough to link Bin Laden with Iran, even if it is delayed by six years and more.

# If CIA wants to get rid of those who organized the 9/11 acts of terror, then they must get rid of themselves.

# Americans are great storytellers. They've been amusing me every day for the past 10 years. What they're really good at is making things up and printing money to infinity. Who's kidding who?

# CIA= Criminals in America

# Didn't the US conspire with Osama bin Laden back in Afghanistan? Seems like Langley is cooking up some 'intelligence' again.

# Printing fake money, fake news, and now more fake documents.

# Eeven according to these "documents", there was ZERO collusion and cooperation between Iran and Al-Qaida. But there is a ton of evidence of direct co-operation between Al Qaida and CIA, Phakistan, Turkey, Saudi Barbaria, ...

# Remember that Bin Laden was an employee of the federal government for many years, until he was no longer useful, and knew too much.

# The CIA employ writers to script fictional narratives that the western propaganda media then spread as 'news'. Nations should take a page from the playbook of the US and start making up self-serving lies to advance their agenda.

# The truth would be a welcomed change coming from the US government but that's not going to happen any time soon if ever. The US simply come up with self-serving lies that is spread as facts/news by the western media then use those self-serving lies as the pretext to do what they want to do. Like the weapons of mass destruction lie which was the pretext to provoke a war with Iraq.

# So Bin Ladel has been dead since 2011 and the CIA have been in possession of these docs for 6 years and NOW they are releasing their faked docs?? Sounds like manufactured to provide the pretext for a desparate predetermined policy.

# very suspicious, it all smells of lies and deception. People say the squad that went into that compound are all practically dead today, maybe they knew something about what really happened, we never got to see the body after they apparently took it out to sea and dumped it either, they would of paraded the body if it was all legitimate.

# Yes, please see General Wesley Clark tell us years ago that they planned these strikes years ago. Enter a few script writers to pull the wool over the public's eyes and here you have it. Same plan, different men at the helm. N W O = Global community. Not too bright these folks are they.

# Are those from that 'Osama' they buried at sea without even taking a DNA sample to prove it was the right guy? Get real!