Operation Geronimo - the FREETHINKER

When the operation that would have killed Bin Laden put him the name of operation Geronimo? Prescott Bush was in 1918, the student association, Skull & Bones (skull and bone). Challenged by his colleagues, he invaded an apache cemetery and stole the scalp of the legendary Chief Geronimo.

Owner of land in Texas, Prescott became a businessman's success in the oil industry and was a close friend of John Foster Dulles, who ran the CIA when the assassination of John Kennedy, in 1963. Dulles convinced his friend to return to the Apache Geronimo scalp.

Bush did so, but it was not long until the Indians discovered that the hair returned was fake.

Friendship with Dulles granted to the eldest son of Prescott, George H. Bush, the post of CIA agent. George coordinated invasion of Bay of pigs, Cuba, in 1961, to try to topple the regime put in place by the guerrillas of Sierra Maestra. Despite the defeat, he was appointed director of the CIA, in 1976.

Prescott Bush applauded business smell of his son when he became friends with an Arab businessman travelling often to Texas: Muhammad Bin Laden. In 1968, flying over Bush in Texas oil wells, Bin Laden was killed in a plane crash. But already it had consolidated the family ties.

George Bush not mourned the death of his friend. He was more concerned with the school difficulties of his son George w. Bush, who only got a grade point average of C. By then the war of Viet Nam was complicated and, to avoid that his son was called up, George tried to enlist in the air force of the National Guard.

Father George encouraged his son to found his own oil company, the Bush (bush) in the 1970s, Energy. The international contacts that the father had since their time in the CIA, George son sought investments of Khaled Bin Mafouz and Salem Bin Laden, the largest of the 52 sons of the late Muhammad.

Mafouz was banker of the Saudi royal family and was married to one of the Sisters of Salem. These family ties allowed Mafouz to become President of the Blessed Relief, the Arab NGO which was one of the brothers of Salem, Osama Bin Laden.

In December 1979, George H. Bush traveled to Paris for a meeting between Republicans and supporters of Khomeini to treat the release of the 64 American hostages kidnapped in the Embassy of United States in Tehran. It was avoided that President Jimmy Carter is worth of the episode and would undermine the presidential claims of Ronald Reagan. Dad George made the journey to the French capital on board the Jet of Salem Bin Laden, that he facilitated contact with the Islamic world. Salem, like his father, in a disaster of aviation died in 1988.

That year the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Father George, who coordinated the operations of the CIA, resorted to Osama, one of the brothers of Salem, who accepted to infiltrate Afghanistan to, guided by the CIA, to strengthen the Afghan resistance against the atheistic Communists.

In 1979, at the request of George Bush's father, director of the CIA, Osama, of 23 years, moved to Afghanistan to manage the financial resources to the covert operations of the Agency against the Soviet invasion of that country. Concerned with the Moscow offensive, the Government of the United States had given the greater amount of money that the CIA was never to appear in a single country: US $ 200 billion.

When President George w. Bush, after 11 September, cited, as an annex crime to terrorism, "illicit use of privileged information", knew of what was talking about. Then, thanks to this information, Osama Bin Laden set up his terrorist network in the world, mobilizing resources through tax havens.

If the scalp of Geronimo was false, who guaranteed that Bin Laden was killed in a Pakistani mansion? Do not have been more useful to grasp it alive and force him to reveal all about Al Qaeda? I have no doubt that, in some aircraft carrier of the United States, Bin Laden is being tortured to tell what he knows. Then just take the "Argentine solution", or to throw his body into the sea. And not so find stranded on a beach, there are still sharp teeth of the fish of the deep.

Frei Betto

Philosopher and writer. Author of "Calendar of power"

Note: Data are the Italian analyst Francesco Piccioni. More details in the book to fortunate are: George w. Bush and the making of an American president, Steve Hatfield.