From Ceasefire.
In interviews with this author in early March, Edmonds claimed that
Ayman al-Zawahiri, current head of al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden’s deputy
at the time, had innumerable, regular meetings at the U.S. embassy in
Baku, Azerbaijan, with U.S. military and intelligence officials between
1997 and 2001, as part of an operation known as ‘Gladio B’. Al-Zawahiri,
she charged, as well as various members of the bin Laden family and
other mujahideen, were transported on NATO planes to various parts of
Central Asia and the Balkans to participate in Pentagon-backed
destabilisation operations.
According to two Sunday Times journalists speaking on
condition of anonymity, this and related revelations had been confirmed
by senior Pentagon and MI6 officials as part of a four-part
investigative series that were supposed to run in 2008. The Sunday Times
journalists described how the story was inexplicably dropped under the
pressure of undisclosed “interest groups”, which, they suggest, were
associated with the U.S. State Department.
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