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The former senior CIA official, Rolf Mowatt Larssen, during an interview on the show Opinion with Blendi Fevziu, spoke about the event of September 11 in the USA, confessing that the agency where he worked knew that the United States of America would be attacked. by terrorist Osama Bin Laden.
The former senior official explains that they had predicted that an attack would occur inside the US, but what was unknown to them was how the attack would be carried out and when it would be carried out.
Further, Larssen claims that they underestimated the terrorist group at the time but after the attack they overestimated everything else.
Read the full interview
Blendi Fevziu : After that, you were involved for a long time in the fight against terrorism. How terrorism began after the breakup of the Soviet Union and after the Cold War.
Rolf Mowatt Larssen: The best description I heard about the change in terrorism was from a friend of mine who was working with Arab groups looking at Gaddafi terrorists. He said that this is not a problem which…
Blendi Fevziu: Gaddafi and the Palestinians started terrorism or radicalism in other countries as well. In Saudi Arabia, in Afghanistan and after the war with the Soviet Union. How did this type of terrorism start?
Rolf Mowatt Larssen: I think it started with the idea that it's something we can manage. It is the idea that we can manage terrorism, whether it is the hijacking of the plane and the murder and anticipated Al Qaeda showed us unfortunately. We call it the failure of imagination in the United States. We failed to imagine that a terrorist group could go to war with the United States and strike strategic facilities.
Blendi Fevziu: Normally, when did the CIA target Osama Bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zaëahiri? Probably the two most famous people, both killed already, Osama Bin Laden seems to me 12 years ago and Ayman Al-Zaëahiri last year. When did they come to the attention of the CIA? In which year?
Rolf Moëatt Larssen: We noticed Bin Laden in the early 1990s. We know about him even before that, but no one, but only a small group of people was following him constantly, not using so many resources. I can honestly say that we underestimated...
Blendi Fevziu: You underestimated...
Rolf Moëatt Larssen: We underestimated it at the time, until 9/11 and then we overestimated it after 9/11 because we were determined… at that time we were determined to eradicate the whole problem that we had underestimated before 9/11.
Blendi Fevziu: What was the real power of Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Al-Zaëahiri and other terrorists?
Rolf Moëatt Larssen: You will get different answers from every CIA official. My answer is very simple. I was very concerned right after I got deployed to the counterterrorism sector after 9/11 because I looked up to Bin Laden as a visionary. He united radical militants in a vision to attack America. The idea was to bring down the United States the way you think they had brought down the Soviet Union. So his vision was very big. The idea that you could hijack 6 planes and crash them into buildings, take down the Twin Towers and attack the Pentagon was so ridiculous to us that no one imagined it before it happened. Even now when we look back, we should have predicted it.
Blendi Fevziu: Normalisht shumë njerëz nëpër botë pas 11 Shtatorit mendonin, si është e mundur që disa persona nga një vend i huaj si Afganistani ku nuk ka ujë të pijshëm, telefona dhe komunikim arrijnë të organizojnë një sulm të tillë? Një sulm në zemrën e shoqërisë më të sofistikuar në botë.
Rolf Moëatt Larssen: Problemi qëndron tek mentaliteti i gabuar. Kur unë i jap mësim të rinjve i them Sun Tzu-n. Sun Tzu-ja thoshte: njihe vetën tënde dhe njeh armikun dhe do të fitosh 100 beteja. Pra, të njohësh veten tënde do të thotë se duhet të jesh i përulur dhe të kuptosh se kundërshtari mund të të surprizojë. Duhet ta njohësh kundërshtarin dhe asnjëherë të mos e nënvlerësosh. Duhet të kesh empati për objektivat dhe qëllimet e kundërshtarin pasi kështu do të kesh mundësinë ta shkatërrosh me më shumë efikasitet.
Blendi Fevziu: George Tenet, i cili është nga Shqipëria, prindërit e tij vijnë nga këtu, ka thënë në librin e tij të kujtimeve se mëngjesin e 11 shtatorit, duke ngrënë mëngjes me një prej senatorëve apo kongresmenëve, nuk e mbaj mend ekzaktësisht emrin, iu tha se problemi më i madh i Shteteve të Bashkuara tani ishte Osama Bin Laden-i. Dy minuta më vonë Osama Bin Laden-i u përgjigj duke sulmuar Nju Jork-un dhe Pentagonin në Uashington. Kjo do të thotë se CIA e ka pasur Osame Bin Laden-in në qendër të vëmendjes. Dështoi CIA të parandalonte ngjarjen e 11 shtatorit?
Rolf Moëatt Larssen: Në fillim dua të them se George Tenet nuk është vetëm një mik i imi, dhe një hero por po ashtu përmendet edhe në librin im. E di që është fakt që është shumë krenar për prejardhjen e tij shqiptare. Doja ta përmendja këtë. Ai e di se unë jam këtu këtë javë dhe është shumë i gëzuar që unë do të eksploroj sado pak vendin. Kam qenë në stafin e tij të lartë mëngjesin e 11 shtatorit. Mund të them nga dëshmitë e mija personale, nga vëzhgimet e mija direkte se ne e dinim se do të goditeshim nga Osama Bin Laden-i dhe Ayman Al-Zaëahiri muaj para 11 shtatorit. E dinim. Pyetja ishte se ku dhe në çfarë mënyre…
Blendi Fevziu: Ju kishit informacion se diçka do të ndodhte…
Rolf Moëatt Larssen: Po.
Blendi Fevziu: Por nuk e dinin se si, me avion apo me diçka tjetër. Ju dinit vetëm se do të kishte një atentat të madh nga ai.
Rolf Moëatt Larssen: Ne dinim se do të ishte diçka e madhe. Dinim se mund të ndodhte brenda Shteteve të Bashkuara, dinim se do të ndodhte menjëherë. Do të ndodhte së shpejti por nuk pamë kohën.
Blendi Fevziu: Grupi i tij operacional le të themi se ishte jashtë vëmendjes tuaj.
Rolf Moëatt Larssen: Kjo është çka ndodhi. Kjo është arsyeja pse ne kemi spiunë mes nesh. Kështu veprojnë terroristët. Ne nuk dimë gjithçka. Më herët më pyetët për CIA-n. Ne na pëlqen që njerëzit të mendojmë se dimë gjithçka por fatkeqësisht nuk i dimë, sidomos në ato rrethana.
Blendi Fevziu: Pas 11 shtatorit ju keni qenë i ngarkuar me hetimin e potencialit të luftës me armë të shkatërrimit në masë në duart e terroristëve. Është e vërtetë se Al-Zaëahiri ka qenë i ngarkuar për të krijuar një bombë atomike?
Rolf Moëatt Larssen: Po, Al Qaeda. Kjo është gjëja më e frikshme që mësuam se Al Qaeda kishte si synim zhvillimin e armëve biologjike.
Blendi Fevziu: Armë atomike është më e lehtë për tu kuptuar nga publiku.
Rolf Moëatt Larssen: Dhe një bombë bërthamore.
Blendi Fevziu: Mundej një person në Afganistan të krijonte një bombë atomike?
Rolf Moëatt Larssen: Është shumë e vështirë. Kjo është arsyeja pse fatmirësisht…
Blendi Fevziu: Megjithatë, ata e nisën programin.
Rolf Moëatt Larssen: They started the program.
Blendi Fevziu: They wanted to buy an atomic bomb or create it themselves?
Rolf Moëatt Larssen: Buy it, steal it or build it.
Blendi Fevziu: All possibilities. Have they been around?
Rolf Moëtt Larssen: No.
Blendi Fevziu: No...
Rolf Moëatt Larssen: We don't think they were around, but we were worried about what we didn't know. This is the example of being humble. I personally heard it from the President and from the Deputy. The president whom I will quote again and again. Were personally interested…/ CNA
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