Valuetainment - May 14, 2025


"Bin Laden Was In Iran" – Curt Weldon SLAMS 9⧸11 BOMBSHELL Cover-Up


Episode Stats

Length

18 minutes

Words per Minute

190.95839

Word Count

3,451

Sentence Count

16

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

After 9/11, the U.S. government launched a massive manhunt to find Osama bin Laden, but could they find him? or is he still alive in Afghanistan, or in a hospital in Tehran, Iran?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 with you know stories linked to osama bin laden okay when the events takes place i'm very skeptical
00:00:08.080 about osama bin laden period i'm skeptical skeptical about that we really dropped the
00:00:12.880 guy in the middle of the ocean i'm like i'm i'm there on on what happened i don't even believe
00:00:16.560 why would you drop we've never dropped an ass in the middle of the ocean well because it's a martyr
00:00:20.480 you don't want people to go celebration at his funeral plot and all this other stuff i don't
00:00:24.080 know i mean the difference is transformers drops uh megatron in the middle of the ocean then a
00:00:30.000 couple years later they drop osama bin laden in the middle of the ocean i don't know if it was
00:00:32.960 inspired by the movie or not i don't want to speculate let my creativity go there you guys
00:00:37.040 don't have to go there but bin laden stories about where he goes where he was at who he met with what
00:00:45.040 things do we know about bin laden well i was very big supporter of uh of when george bush went up to
00:00:50.960 the trade center i was there at 9 11 and he put his hand up in the air i was there with him with
00:00:55.840 the firefighters and he said we're going to get you we're going to come find you i figured that it
00:01:01.360 must have been bin laden in afghanistan so i got all fired up and said i'm with you mr president all
00:01:07.840 the way i was concerned about our troops being harassed in afghanistan the way the russian troops
00:01:13.200 were i took two other members of congress and went with al santoli a decorated vietnam veteran
00:01:19.200 new york times bestseller with intelligence ties we went to rome and we met with king zahir shah in
00:01:25.040 exile without the u.s government approval we went to his family's home and we convinced i have the
00:01:30.320 photos king zahir shah to go back to afghanistan and convene aloya jorga of all the tribes to accept
00:01:37.680 the american troops when they came in so our troops would be protected i took every step i could to
00:01:42.800 protect the american troops then i like doing my job in the congress because i couldn't trust
00:01:48.320 the intel being provided by the cia as the vice chairman of the defense committee and homeland
00:01:53.520 security they would spin the data i would get better information from defense reporters like bill gertz
00:01:58.960 than i would from the agency so i had my own intel team these are people that work for the agencies
00:02:04.640 there were about 15 of them that worked for the cia dia nsa fbi and i would meet with them for
00:02:10.400 breakfast in the capital and they would feed me raw data and they fed me raw data after 9-11
00:02:16.720 that usan bin laden was seen in a town called ladiz i had no idea where ladiz was so i went up the
00:02:22.720 street and bought a map at the bookstore you have that map right here that i bought 25 years ago 20
00:02:28.480 yeah 25 years ago and i looked on the map and i found ladiz 10 kilometers inside the border of
00:02:34.640 pakistan in iran in an area called baluchistan i then went to a classified briefing for the full
00:02:40.960 committee closed briefing now i'm the vice chairman of the committee at the time i was the acting
00:02:46.000 chairman the chairman wasn't there and in front of 60 members i said to the cia i have information
00:02:51.440 that bin laden's been cited in ladiz what can you tell me mr chairman we've heard similar reports
00:02:57.920 we can either confirm or deny them i was outraged we're sending kids to afghanistan to look for bin
00:03:03.840 laden and they can't deny that he's in a town called ladiz three months later my raw intelligence
00:03:10.240 people tell me that he's being treated at a military hospital in tehran i go back to the classified
00:03:14.880 briefing in front of the whole committee and i ask the question i get the same response mr chairman
00:03:20.480 we've heard similar reports we can either confirm or deny them and i said what the hell's going on here
00:03:25.120 we're now months into this whole operation we're sending kids over to afghanistan and you're telling
00:03:31.200 me bin laden may be in baluchistan then i get the most respected democrat in the house jack murtha
00:03:38.160 chairman of the senate of the house appropriations defense committee former marine very well respected
00:03:44.240 member and a friend of mine murtha sends over ron clink now murtha's dead but ron clink's alive
00:03:49.680 and he said it says to me uh to ron ron has information from a knock he used to work for the
00:03:56.000 agency about iran and jack says go see kurt he investigates these things ron clink came to my
00:04:02.080 office and ron clink will verify this he's a man of honor he's alive i and he i said ron how can i
00:04:07.040 help he said congressman i have a uh i have a an acquaintance here i need you to talk to him jack said
00:04:12.400 come to you i said okay he brings this knock in he said congresswell i want you to help me go to iran
00:04:18.720 i said why do you want to go to ron so that's where i used to work for the agency and he said
00:04:22.960 that's where bin laden is and there's a 25 million dollar reward you help me get to tehran i'll leave
00:04:27.680 my credentials there in the hotel and i'll go down and bring you back dead or alive because there's 25
00:04:32.640 million dollar reward i said i'm sorry i'm in the middle of a battle with the agency right now i can't
00:04:37.600 do that now that's the third incident then i get a request from the department of interior they want to
00:04:45.360 bring in the head of the international falconry association now that's not unusual because i'm
00:04:50.400 the republican on the migratory bird commission the migratory bird commission oversees all the
00:04:55.200 wildlife refuges in north america john dingle was a democrat there were two senators and three cabinet
00:05:00.800 members so i figured he wants to talk about birds okay i'll talk about birds this uh fellow from
00:05:07.280 maine alan perot brings in two falcons million dollar birds on his shoulders he's a sikh very
00:05:14.240 wealthy family he said mr chairman thank you for greeting with me i said okay i said i've devoted
00:05:19.760 my life to falcons i worked with the un on the international falcon treaties and he said i was in
00:05:25.120 the base camps that trained the children of the royal families on the sport of falconry i said well
00:05:30.560 that's very interesting i said how can i help you with these birds they're beautiful
00:05:34.000 he said i want you to help me go to iran now he knows nothing about what i've been given
00:05:39.280 i said why do you want to go to iran he said my falconers are seeing bin laden's birds flying in iran
00:05:46.160 they'll accept me there you get me into iran i'll tag his birds and take you to exactly where he is
00:05:51.840 that's the fourth they take me out of office i get a call from michael schoyer michael schoyer
00:05:59.040 said congress at my home do you remember me i said yeah michael he said i worked for the cia my
00:06:03.040 whole career i said i remember he said my job was the director of the bin laden task force
00:06:08.720 i like station i said well he said bin laden task force i said what can i help you with he said i'm
00:06:14.080 seeing information from the bird man that i was never shown when i was in charge of the bin laden
00:06:18.720 task force i think he's right we want to do a film we want you to be a part of it i said not after what
00:06:23.840 they did to my family i'm not getting involved thank you but no i hang out the phone three months
00:06:29.360 later i get a call from general mcinerney a decorated american hero and he calls me at my
00:06:34.880 home and said congressman weldon i'm working with michael schoyer and the bird man and we want you
00:06:39.600 involved i said general i'm not going to do it in the end i end up with 10 silver bullets
00:06:46.000 including two royal family members from two separate royal families that bin laden was placed in iran
00:06:52.480 after 9 11. the u.s has plausible deniability because they arranged it through other countries
00:06:59.600 the ultimate was a person who's worked for our government for 50 years he's a knock he's not from
00:07:06.400 the u.s i will reveal his information privately but not publicly and i'll take a polygraph i met with
00:07:14.080 him and he said uh through one of the people he handled when he was active he said you're right about
00:07:19.760 many things mr chairman i respect you i said well thank you he said you're right about bin lad he was
00:07:25.120 in iran and he's placed there with u.s knowledge and information without the knowledge of the u.s of
00:07:30.640 the iranian government a few years ago i think it was five years ago we killed sulaimani i don't even
00:07:37.920 think trump knows this he took credit for killing sulaimani he deserves credit because sulaimani was a
00:07:42.800 a criminal i text my friend was that the man he texts back within one minute yes the deal who placed
00:07:52.800 bin laden in iran was not cut with amadinejad it was not cut with the head of the iranian government
00:07:59.760 it was cut with the head of the irg and if you think back to when the shah was in power the iranian
00:08:06.160 intelligence was largely trained by u.s intelligence those friendships never left when the when the radical
00:08:12.320 regimes took over in iran they didn't change their intelligence and those friendships and
00:08:16.400 relationships continued the real investigation needs to be what involvement did our intelligence
00:08:22.400 have with iranian intelligence and was that involved in placing bin laden in iran while we sent thousands
00:08:28.400 of american kids to afghanistan and 2500 came back in body bags i mean when you when you hear that story
00:08:38.320 about iran we we all heard what we heard pakistan you know we heard you know that he escaped and
00:08:48.080 you know poor coordination among u.s and afghan troops and you know all this other stuff we hear
00:08:53.040 that but mainly we hear about the city what is that city called abutabad right abutabad uh yeah
00:08:57.920 pakistan yeah so no one talks about iran however the part about iran here that's kind of strange
00:09:02.960 just well osama bin laden himself never confirmed to have been in iran however some of his family
00:09:07.920 members and senior al-qaeda figures did reportedly seek shelter in iran absolutely were after the
00:09:12.320 u.s invasion of afghanistan that includes bin laden's son that's right saeed bin laden and others who were
00:09:17.280 later detained by iranian authorities and i asked an official but you're convinced he was there absolutely
00:09:23.280 one thousand percent i'll take a polygraph i told you i'll take a polygraph for what i know
00:09:28.640 i'll take a polygraph i have 10 silver bullet sources that bin laden was placed and when the
00:09:34.880 bird man was questioning the iranian consular office at the u.n because there is no iranian embassy here
00:09:40.960 they were saying why do you keep coming to us saying that bin laden's in our country you would
00:09:44.640 never harbor bin laden but they would go back and you know ask the questions in tehran why is he saying
00:09:50.400 this finally amadinejad came over to the u.n to give a speech and the falcon the bird man from america got
00:09:56.560 george stefanopoulos to ask the question and i know george stefanopoulos from he worked on the
00:10:01.040 house floor for dick ephart that's the one you're talking when i first went to congress uh george
00:10:05.600 stefanopoulos so stefanopoulos asked amadinejad the question kind of smirkingly some of the wackos
00:10:12.480 in this country are saying that you're harboring bin laden and obviously amadinejad said no way
00:10:18.240 will we ever harbor bin laden he went back to tehran that's when they kicked him out of iran over to
00:10:24.400 pakistan now amadinejad i still have contacts to now if necessary i can bring amadinejad on the
00:10:32.240 show he's afraid he'll be killed but he'll verify what i just told you that's what's wrong with our
00:10:38.400 country the iranian people have never been our enemy that's what my book was about when i wrote
00:10:44.960 the book in 2005 i said iran is not the enemy you see the title of my book i said the cia is the problem
00:10:51.520 they're playing games this book was endorsed by jim wolsey three-page letter the former director
00:10:57.760 of the cia i had him on the podcast he's a good guy and and the book was endorsed by uh by uh
00:11:02.640 jack caravelli al gore cia advisor one page letter they endorsed the book the iranians published my
00:11:09.760 book in farsi on their own it became a bestseller because it says the people of iran in the u.s are not
00:11:15.920 enemies the people in these countries are never our enemies it's the games we play not the games
00:11:21.200 the games we allow people to play they're out for power and money we've got to stop that rob can you
00:11:27.440 play that clip with ahmed in there so here's the clip that you're talking about go for it final
00:11:32.960 question uh there's a new documentary uh out that says that osama bin laden is living in tehran is
00:11:41.520 osama bin laden in tehran your question is laughable why the u.s government has invaded afghanistan in
00:11:51.520 order to arrest bin laden they probably know where bin laden is if they don't know where bin laden is
00:11:56.720 why did they invade first they invaded then they tried to find out where he is is that logical do
00:12:02.640 you think this is logical what i think is that you didn't answer my question is he in tehran or not
00:12:06.720 our position is quite clear some journalists have said bin laden is in iran these words don't have
00:12:13.280 legal value our position towards afghanistan and against terrorism is quite clear is it true or not
00:12:21.120 maybe you know but i don't know i'm asking you you're the president of iran i don't know such a
00:12:26.800 thing you are giving news which is very strange so let me ask it a different way if you did know
00:12:31.440 that osama bin laden was in tehran would you show him hospitality would you expel him would you
00:12:37.440 arrest him i heard that osama bin laden is in washington dc no you didn't yes i did he's there
00:12:44.080 because he was a previous partner of mr bush they were colleagues in fact in the old days you know
00:12:48.880 that they worked together mr bin laden never cooperated with iran but he cooperated with mr bush
00:12:56.080 i'll ask one more time and then i'll let you go if you knew that osama bin laden was in tehran which
00:13:01.120 you say you don't if you knew would you expel him would you arrest him would you show him
00:13:05.680 hospitality our borders are closed to the illegal entry of anyone anyone whoever that may be whether
00:13:15.440 it's the three american mountaineers mr bin laden or anyone else the borders are closed our position
00:13:21.520 is clear but you deny categorically that he's in tehran today he is not osama bin laden is not in
00:13:27.360 tehran today you're saying he was what's mine but she and i didn't know rest assured that he's
00:13:31.760 interrupted that's the first time anyone's i've never talked to you about this in advance
00:13:36.640 and you pulled that up right away it's exactly what i say and i know the people that got
00:13:41.520 stephanopoulos to ask that question i would ask you one more thing to look at remember that airplane
00:13:47.280 that somebody captured on the tarmac in tehran that was unidentified unloading pallets and pallets of
00:13:54.880 american cash do you remember that story and no one ever explained it i wonder why that occurred
00:14:01.600 remember the pallets of cash and the estimates we've got to stop allowing these games to be played
00:14:09.200 the people of iran are not our enemy this plane to that plane i i i can't tie that all i can tell you
00:14:15.120 is i'm aware of that that's something i they're they're they're 15 years apart of the event and you're
00:14:20.880 talking about the 400 million dollar cash that so there was more than one flight of planes into
00:14:25.920 tehran let me obama administration secretly arranged a plane delivery of 400 million dollars in cash on
00:14:30.160 the same day iran released four american prisoners and formally implemented the nuclear deal u.s
00:14:34.000 officials confirmed barack obama approved the 400 million dollar transfer which he announced in
00:14:37.840 january as part of the iranian nuclear deal the money was flown to iran in wooden pallets
00:14:41.920 stacked with swiss francs euros and other currencies as the first installment of the 1.7 billion
00:14:46.400 dollar settlement resolving claims at the international tribunal uh at the hague over
00:14:51.760 a filed uh failed arms deal under the time of the shah a fifth american was also released by iran
00:14:58.960 separately what is your correlation between the two the correlation that i can tell you is that um the us
00:15:08.080 was aware of and helped facilitate the placement of bin laden in iran they they they retain plausible
00:15:15.760 deniability that's the fancy word they use they they maintain plausible deniability by using other
00:15:22.160 countries and i'll give you one more story about iran i did most of the work for the congress with
00:15:27.760 russia steny hoyer was my co-chair and as you know the big deal right now is the iran nuclear program
00:15:33.600 well let me tell you what happened in the 90s that i will verify and give you again a polygraph on i was
00:15:40.720 very upset when we had evidence that the russian ministry of atomic energy was helping iran with
00:15:45.600 a bushir reactor and i went to the ministry of atomic energy and i took two members of the house
00:15:50.800 who are today's senators and i'll give you the photograph you can get off my website of me with
00:15:55.760 roger wicker chairman of the senate armed services committee and lindsey graham meeting with the
00:16:00.880 minister of atomic energy in moscow mchaulov they call him the hawk and i said to him we want you to
00:16:07.440 stop helping iran with a nuclear program at bushir because this is going to come back to hurt both of
00:16:13.680 our countries this is in the 1990s mikhailov said congressman uh we we don't we can't do anything
00:16:20.480 about these deals that we're doing i was very outraged and i let the russians know that one of the
00:16:25.760 most pro-american leaders in russia who did the non-lugar program was the head of the nuclear
00:16:30.960 institute in russia called khorchatov institute in moscow his name was dr yevgeny velikov he died in
00:16:37.040 december he was a very good partner of sam nunn and dick luger that's how i met him velikov became
00:16:43.600 a good friend of mine when bush reached out and made that famous speech in 2001 that he looked in
00:16:49.200 putin's eyes and saw his inner soul and realized this is a man he could trust you can pull that
00:16:53.280 speech up that was bush saying this i took that seriously and i pressed velikov to do something about
00:16:59.600 the iran program velikov came to my office and i have a three-hour interview with velikov in my oral
00:17:05.760 history that's never been released in moscow and velikov said court putin wants to offer to the us a
00:17:13.280 bilateral 50 50 50 overseeing any fissile material going into iran we turned them down we turned them
00:17:22.640 down under george bush in the early 2000s i'll take a polygraph by the way on a different note the
00:17:32.480 federal reserve is often i used to consult with the f the federal reserve's intelligence folks and yes
00:17:37.920 they have an intelligence program and moving whole plane loads of cash is not an uncommon thing for the
00:17:44.960 federal reserve just saying it's a common it's a common occurrence i can see that if you enjoy this
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