Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00335)

Monday, December 17, 2001

Dallas asks:

What has the following to do with the study of THEOSOPHY ?
If not, then why does it occupy space here ?


Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: bri_mue [mailto:bri_mue@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 11:15 AM
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Theos-World "Seeds of Fire", a new book.


Gordon Thomas since recently has a book out where he claims that
Beijing had an actual role in the Sept. 11 attack on America.
In "Seeds of Fire," Thomas purports to show how Beijing is
positioning itself to become America's "new major enemy."
Thomas points out that on Sept. 11, a transport plane from
Beijing
landed in Kabul. A Chinese delegation had gone to Afghanistan to
sign
a deal with the Taliban - reportedly brokered by Osama bin
Laden - to
provide the Afghans with missile-tracking technology,
state-of-the-
art communications and air-defense systems. In return, says
Thomas,
the Taliban would order Muslim separatists in northwest China to
stop
their activities.

In a Sept. 13 report, the Washington Post confirmed that Beijing
had
just signed a deal with the Taliban to provide Afghanistan "with
much
needed infrastructure and economic development assistance."

Due to the fall of the Taliban at the hands of opposition forces
and
the United States, however, "the goods were never delivered,"
Thomas
tells in this new book.
The delegation, says Thomas, included senior officers of the
People's
Liberation Army and the Bureau of State Security, as well as
managers
from two of China's leading defense contractors.

In his book, Thomas contends that hours after the plane landed in
Kabul, CIA Director George Tenet received a coded "red alert"
message
from Israeli Mossad agents that presented a "worst case
scenario" -
that China would use a surrogate, bin Laden, to attack the United
States.

Thomas also claims that the head of Pakistan's intelligence
service
was in Washington to meet with Tenet on Sept. 11, and that he
briefed
Tenet that day on the links between bin Laden and China.

The intelligence agent "told that China had made a decisive
decision," wrote Thomas. "It was prepared to infuriate America
and
its allies in supporting bin Laden and the Taliban because
Afghanistan fitted into China's own long-term strategic plans."

Saying that bin Laden has traveled to China numerous times to
meet
with officials there, Thomas contends that "almost certainly he
talked to them about obtaining" material to build weapons of mass
destruction.

China's President Jiang Zemin, adds Thomas, waited three days to
contact Bush about the Sept. 11 attack and told the U.S.
president
that, vis-à-vis the war on terrorism, China would find itself in
a "difficult situation, given our well-known position of opposing
any
interference in the internal affairs of any country."

Washington sources say that Bush "gritted his teeth and said he
would
push on without China," Thomas writes.

On the lighter side, Chinese filmdirector Long Zanxu just offered
Jenna Bush the part of heroine Nancy Lee in a 100-million-yuan
(12.06-
million-dollar) production called "Hero Defending Country", no
kidding.

Brigitte

PS o yes, and there is one book I can heartely recommend to
Daniel,
David Sereda's , "Face to Face With Jesus Christ".