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India helped FBI trace ISI-terrorist links
Times of India ^
| October 10,2001
| MANOJ JOSHI
Posted on 10/09/2001 3:58:55 PM PDT by Odyssey-x
NEW DELHI: While the Pakistani Inter Services Public Relations claimed that former ISI director-general Lt-Gen Mahmud Ahmad sought retirement after being superseded on Monday, the truth is more shocking.
Top sources confirmed here on Tuesday, that the general lost his job because of the "evidence" India produced to show his links to one of the suicide bombers that wrecked the World Trade Centre. The US authorities sought his removal after confirming the fact that $100,000 were wired to WTC hijacker Mohammed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the instance of Gen Mahumd.
Senior government sources have confirmed that India contributed significantly to establishing the link between the money transfer and the role played by the dismissed ISI chief. While they did not provide details, they said that Indian inputs, including Sheikh’s mobile phone number, helped the FBI in tracing and establishing the link.
A direct link between the ISI and the WTC attack could have enormous repercussions. The US cannot but suspect whether or not there were other senior Pakistani Army commanders who were in the know of things. Evidence of a larger conspiracy could shake US confidence in Pakistan’s ability to participate in the anti-terrorism coalition.
Indian officials say they are vitally interested in the unravelling of the case since it could link the ISI directly to the hijacking of the Indian Airlines Kathmandu-Delhi flight to Kandahar last December. Ahmad Umar Sayeed Sheikh is a British national and a London School of Economics graduate who was arrested by the police in Delhi following a bungled 1994 kidnapping of four westerners, including an American citizen.
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Pakistan has a very close relationship with China... Makes you think, doesn't it?
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posted on
10/09/2001 3:58:55 PM PDT
by
Odyssey-x
To: Odyssey-x
I work with a guy who spent four years in Pakistan. From what he has told me the Pakistani senior command is rife with Islamic fundamentalists who are very sympathetic to Islamic groups advocating the destruction of Israel as well as the United States. According to this guy, our government has been aware of this for years.
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posted on
10/09/2001 4:05:45 PM PDT
by
waxhaw
To: Hopalong,BlueDogDemo
BUMP
To: Odyssey-x
It doesn't make me think about China at all. It does make me worried about Pakistan's integrity as an ally because the Times of India wouldn't dare make up the part about the FBI angle. Not now.
On the other hand, the fact that Musharraf canned this guy, along with the pro-Taliban generals who he owed a debt to, makes me feel a lot better about him.
We told every nation to get on one side or the other. Pakistan was obviously straddling the fence before, and they seem to have decided to jump firmly onto our side.
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posted on
10/09/2001 4:07:07 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Odyssey-x
Hmmmm....
check this out from September 17.
A high-level Pakistani delegation, led by the chief of Inter Service Intelligence, Gen. Mahmood Ahmed, was in Kandahar, Afghanistan's religious capital, Monday to confer with Taliban "Supreme Leader" Mullah Mohammad Omar. The ISI chief was in Washington last week to hear what the United States expects from him. Stories that Ahmed was delivering an ultimatum to Omar to surrender Osama bin Laden within three days or face massive U.S. retaliation were treated with skepticism by Pakistani politicians. One general told UPI, not for attribution, that ISI "is against any attack on Taliban."
To: Dog Gone
If this is true ....we need to demand that Pakistan turn this general over to us....NOW!
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posted on
10/09/2001 4:11:03 PM PDT
by
Dog
To: Hopalong,BlueDogDemo,Wallaby,golitely,LSJohn,Judge Parker,honway,roughrider,Nita Nupress,Uncle Bill
Pakistani ISI and SAdam Hussein are very close. The Pakistani general in this story may have been working for the Iraqis as much or more so than with Bin Laden and AlQaeda. Pilot Atta who got the money from the Pak general also met with Iraqi intell in Praque in 2000.
Pakistani terrorists and Sadam Hussein were implicated by Saudi intelligence to US intelligence in helping McVeigh do the OKC bombing. One Pakistani implicated in the first WTC attack in 1993 was Asad Saddiqy who lives in NY CIty. Saddiqy was arrested and then released in OKC after the Murrah building was bombed when it was learned he was driving a blue cavalier seen with McVeigh and his Mercury Marque shortly before the blast. The FBI and DOJ covered up his arrest along with two other Pakistanis that were with him at the time, Anas Sadiqqy and Mohammed Chafi.
To: kattracks,Fred Mertz,Squantos,thinden,AtticusX,t-shirt,rdavis84,freedomnews,Chapita
BUMP and See reply #7
To: Odyssey-x
It should be noted that the CIA worked with ISI to train bin Laden and the Mujahaddin. We've had a very cozy relationship with Pakistan's ISI since 1979.
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posted on
10/09/2001 4:23:13 PM PDT
by
Demidog
To: Dog
I agree, unless the ISI has a somewhat more "terminal" way of handling this problem.
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posted on
10/09/2001 4:25:05 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Odyssey-x, Brian Mosely,Dog
See reply #7
To: OKCSubmariner
Starting to look like a target rich environment eh OKC ?
Stay Safe and thanks for the ping, I'll read and get back to ya later, gotta get some Zzzzzz's.
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posted on
10/09/2001 4:26:03 PM PDT
by
Squantos
To: Demidog
It should be noted that the CIA worked with ISI to train bin Laden and the Mujahaddin. We've had a very cozy relationship with Pakistan's ISI since 1979. Not lately. In fact, not for several years.
You're still straining to blame America for these attacks, aren't you?
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posted on
10/09/2001 4:30:21 PM PDT
by
sinkspur
To: Odyssey-x
Perhaps this is part of what the US's UN Ambassador was referring to when he said that US military action may extend beyond just Afghanistan
To: Odyssey-x
Pakistan has a very close relationship with China... Makes you think, doesn't it? I've been saying all along that China had a vested interest in entangling the US into a general war against Islam, so that we would be too busy and over-extended to interfere with China's expansionary plans
To: SauronOfMordor
Thx, India; we will not forget you when we decide to break our foot off in the Pak's rear ends......
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posted on
10/09/2001 4:46:41 PM PDT
by
Malcolm
To: OKCSubmariner
Perhaps it's getting clearer why we are staging from Pakistan, why we have an overpowering Naval presence nearby and why the Kitty Hawk has no planes.
Stay close to your friends and closer to your enemies.
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posted on
10/09/2001 4:51:10 PM PDT
by
leadhead
To: sinkspur
Give it a rest.
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posted on
10/09/2001 4:53:33 PM PDT
by
Demidog
To: Odyssey-x
Indeed! Yossef Bodansky's book is enough to make your hair white! He claims the ISI has been working for YEARS with Bin Laden even to the extent of REFUSING to allow CIA inspections of the training camps Pakistan was supposedly running to help aid the Afghan's. Bodansky claims these camps were actually training Islamist terrorists ! He also claims Bhutto began Pakistan's policy of publicly supporting the United States while secretly working in conspiracy with Iran, Iraq and China. They termed it the Trans-Asian Axis. Personally, after reading his book, I think this is why NATO is involved guarding our shores and why the President has closed the circle of Congressional members access to classified information. Our mission to Afghanistan is extremely dangerous. The US is conducting war in the midst of some very potentially dangerous enemies.
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posted on
10/09/2001 5:07:46 PM PDT
by
wjeanw
To: Squantos
Target rich, for the rest of our lives. This could take a LONG time.
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