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2006-09-28 India-Pakistan
Ex-Pakistan spy chief knew of 9/11: Report
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Posted by john 2006-09-28 16:23|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 The Paki intel chief sat on knowledge of a sneak attack on the US planned in Pakistan, and you're worked up because the US than threatened you?

You're lucky you still have a capital, bub.
Posted by mojo">mojo  2006-09-28 16:34||   2006-09-28 16:34|| Front Page Top

#2 So much wetwork to do.
Posted by .com 2006-09-28 16:36||   2006-09-28 16:36|| Front Page Top

#3  The True Face of Jehadis: Inside Pakistan's Network of Terror by Amir Mir

The murder of journalist Daniel Pearl in Karachi in 2002 was masterminded by Sheikh Omar Saeed, a double agent of the ISI and JeM who was previously involved in terrorist attacks on high-profile targets in India. Musharraf himself admitted that Pearl had been "over-intrusive" in his investigations. Saeed had foreknowledge of the September 11 terrorist strikes and immediately informed Lieutenant-General Ehsanul Haq, then ISI director and corps commander for Peshawar. Saeed's capture spurred ISI higher-ups to intervene and obstruct his interrogation findings from being made public. Holding him in an isolated cell "helps Musharraf keep a key witness out of American, British and Indian hands".

Al-Qaeda's Abu Zubaydah, captured in 2002, claimed that the late head of the Pakistani air force, Mushaf Ali Mir, had prior knowledge of the September 11 terrorist plot. Mir had allegedly struck a deal with al-Qaeda in 1996 to supply arms and offer protection, a pledge that was renewed in 1998 in the presence of Saudi intelligence boss Prince Turki. Mir's plane crashed in 2003 without explanation and it is speculated that the US forces carrying out anti-Taliban operations had shot it down near Kohat because of his links with al-Qaeda.

Investigations into the September 11 plot revealed that ISI's then-head, hardliner pro-Taliban Lieutenant-General Mahmood Ahmad, ordered Sheikh Omar Saeed to wire US$100,000 to Mohammad Atta, the chief hijacker. In October 2001, Musharraf forced Ahmad into retirement after the FBI displayed credible evidence of his involvement in the terror attacks and knowledge that he was playing a "double game". So frustrated was the FBI with the calculated blockading of counter-terrorist operations by the ISI that it formed its own secret Spider Group of former Pakistani army and intelligence operatives to monitor fundamentalist activities through the length and breadth of Pakistan.
Posted by john 2006-09-28 16:43||   2006-09-28 16:43|| Front Page Top

#4 That's at least three Pak generals who knew about the planned 9/11 attacks...

Posted by john 2006-09-28 16:44||   2006-09-28 16:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Of course the Pakistanis knew about 9/11 since they funded much of it. The ISI, the Taliban and Al Qaeda are intertwined like snakes at an orgy.

“Gen Ahmed arranged to be in Washington the week of Al Qaeda’s big terrorist attack, presumably to take the Bush administration’s pulse and gauge probable reactions.”
Exactly. And that is why I think flight 93 was targetting the White House, not Congress.

Pakistan must burn to the ground before this war can be finished.
Posted by ed 2006-09-28 16:47||   2006-09-28 16:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Attack the US, destroy a major city center, get billions in US aid and weapons, rescue dying economy. Anything wrong with that picture?
Posted by ed 2006-09-28 16:52||   2006-09-28 16:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Amen.
Posted by RD 2006-09-28 16:54||   2006-09-28 16:54|| Front Page Top

#8 And that is why I think flight 93 was targetting the White House, not Congress.

IIRC General Ahmed was having a breakfast meeting with Porter Goss and Lindsay Graham on 9/11.

So the Whitehouse was the target...

and Ahmed is one cold, calculating SOB...
Posted by john 2006-09-28 17:02||   2006-09-28 17:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Yes, Lt. Gen. Ahmed was having breakfast with Graham and Goss.
Posted by ed 2006-09-28 17:22||   2006-09-28 17:22|| Front Page Top

#10 And to think that we were going to leave them stones.
Posted by Perfesser 2006-09-28 17:24||   2006-09-28 17:24|| Front Page Top

#11 jebus John, is that in the 9-11 report?
Posted by RD 2006-09-28 17:25||   2006-09-28 17:25|| Front Page Top

#12 So much wetwork to do.

Should these allegations prove true, nukework is indicated. I have zer-fucking-oh qualms about glassing over any country that had detailed foreknowledge of 9-11. Pour encourager les autres.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-09-28 17:27||   2006-09-28 17:27|| Front Page Top

#13  his assertion once that Bin Laden was living in Peshawar

Haha! I laugh. Peshawar is too down-zila. Lahore.
Posted by 6 2006-09-28 17:33||   2006-09-28 17:33|| Front Page Top

#14 At the time of the attacks, ISI Director Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed is at a breakfast meeting at the Capitol with the chairmen of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Senator Bob Graham (D) and Representative Porter Goss (R) (Goss is a 10-year veteran of the CIA’s clandestine operations wing). The meeting is said to last at least until the second plane hits the WTC. [Washington Post, 5/18/2002]
Posted by ed 2006-09-28 17:42||   2006-09-28 17:42|| Front Page Top

#15 Gawd amighty, I'd forgotten that Jello-Bob was the Chairman. A fierce one he.
Posted by 6 2006-09-28 17:47||   2006-09-28 17:47|| Front Page Top

#16 "down-zila"

ROFL!
Posted by .com 2006-09-28 17:48||   2006-09-28 17:48|| Front Page Top

#17 thx ed
Posted by RD 2006-09-28 17:49||   2006-09-28 17:49|| Front Page Top

#18 The delegation was made up of six religious leaders and six ISI officers.

Interestingly, there were only six people in the delegation.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2006-09-28 17:57|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-09-28 17:57|| Front Page Top

#19 Islamabad delenda est.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2006-09-28 17:57|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-09-28 17:57|| Front Page Top

#20 Ahmed, I swear on your mustache
Posted by Captain America 2006-09-28 18:10||   2006-09-28 18:10|| Front Page Top

#21 So, why are we not moving forces (from Korea)into Waristan ?
Take out anyone moving at night and anyone with a weapon, then we'll go door cave to cave and demonstrate our Orik. I guarantee the Pakis won't mind.
Further, this kind of developement will allow India to glass Pakiland with our blessings and a little incentive.
Posted by wxjames 2006-09-28 19:51||   2006-09-28 19:51|| Front Page Top

#22 ...If true, the nthere is only one option: Perv needs to hand this guy over, and hand him over NOW. No excuses, no arguments. If he doesn't we should work on the assumption that Pakistan is just as hostile as Afghanistan or Iraq was...and act accordingly.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-09-28 19:52||   2006-09-28 19:52|| Front Page Top

#23 It strikes me that Islam at large is functioning a lot like the cult of the assassins. Conspiracy and underhanded dealings that result in thousands of our dead. What Genghis did to kill off that cult was to invade and kill every single person. At the end of his venture, no more assassins.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-09-28 21:47|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2006-09-28 21:47|| Front Page Top

#24 Rolling Gen Mahmood Ahmed in a carpet and kicking him to death (as Hulagu Khan did to the last Caliph) might deter others...

Posted by john 2006-09-28 22:04||   2006-09-28 22:04|| Front Page Top

#25 Casino, the movie. Cornfields, baseball bats...
Posted by Frank G 2006-09-28 22:19||   2006-09-28 22:19|| Front Page Top

#26 What Genghis did to kill off that cult was to invade and kill every single person. At the end of his venture, no more assassins.

In light of just how intractable Islam has proven to date, this is why I continue to predict the Muslim holocaust. If the only bets were, "do nothing" and "the Muslim holocaust", I wouldn't put a plug nickle on "do nothing".
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-09-28 22:29||   2006-09-28 22:29|| Front Page Top

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