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ISTANBUL MY FATHER, Dr. Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz, was an early pioneer in Pakistan's "Atoms for Peace" cooperative nuclear program with the US during the late 1960s. One of the most vivid memories I have of him was the stream of tears flowing down his cheeks as our Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 707 took off from Karachi Airport in the winter of 1972. It would be our last visit to Pakistan as children. I returned to Islamabad in the summer of 1992, the year my father died, to receive the condolences of his colleagues, former students, and friends at Pakistan's key...

NewsMax had the opportunity to ask a few questions of Monsoor Ijaz, Middle East Expert, Fox News contributor and member of the Crescent Group: NM: Is there is a war of succession on in Saudi Arabia, and what is the danger to the oil industry/its workers? Ijaz: There is a war of succession going on inside the ruling family, but that has very little to do with terrorist influences. No Saudi with responsibility for the affairs of state at any level could rationally support the instigation of or support for terrorist acts that would benefit one side of the succession...

Osama bin Laden sealed Saddam Hussein's fate last Tuesday when, in a Messianic rendering of his latest fatwa against Americans, he admitted a "convergence of interests" with Iraq and renewed his threat to bring down traitorous Arab governments across the region. His call to set aside differences with Saddam's "socialist" movement strengthened perceptions that he views Baghdad's strongman as little more than a potentate of one al Qaeda's global villages, otherwise known as the Muslim Ummah.   In a sense, it was his version of George W. Bush's "you're either with us, or with the terrorists" call to arms....

Osama bin Laden sealed Saddam Hussein's fate last Tuesday when, in a Messianic rendering of his latest fatwa against Americans, he admitted a "convergence of interests" with Iraq and renewed his threat to bring down traitorous Arab governments across the region. His call to set aside differences with Saddam's "socialist" movement strengthened perceptions that he views Baghdad's strongman as little more than a potentate of one al Qaeda's global villages, otherwise known as the Muslim Ummah. In a sense, it was his version of George W. Bush's "you're either with us, or with the terrorists" call to arms. But the...

Anyone have updated info. as to his testimony today?

Mansoor Ijaz will be testifying before the 9-11 Commission on May 7th. The Commission is keeping his testimony "Private". We need to have this testimony made "Public", so the American people can hear the truth. I urge all "Freepers" to send an e mail to the 9-11 Commission, telling them to make the testimony PUBLIC!! The e mail address is : info@9-11commission.gov

When the Clinton administration decided to turn down Sudan's offer to have Osama bin Laden arrested and extradited to the U.S., it already knew that the notorious 9/11 mastermind was behind the Black Hawk Down attack in Somalia in 1993, an upcoming 9/11 Commission witness is prepared to testify. According to Mansoor Ijaz, who served as a diplomatic troubleshooter for President Clinton in the late 1990s, bin Laden was offered by Sudanese Defense Minister Elfatih Erwa during a meeting with the CIA's Africa Bureau chief in a Virginia hotel room in March 1996. Instead of accepting the offer, however, Clinton...

NEVER FORGET ...FoX News Foreign Affairs Expert MONSOOR IJAZ told TONY SNOW on FoX News Radio last night that he has been given a May 7th Date to testify before the 9/11 Commission IN PRIVATE. ...MONSOOR IJAZ will be testifying about the 3 Offers he brokered with the Sudan during the 1990's to bring OSAMA bin LADEN here durng the 1990's ...that were refused by the CLINTON White House. MONSOOR IJAZ first told the American People about this on the FoX News Channel the day after the 9/11 Attacks that came here because OSAMA didn't. ...We have been calling here...

Please forgive the vanity, but I've done a search and cannot find any reference to this. I saw Monsoor Ijaz on FNC an hour or so ago, and he said that he has been asked to testify before the 9/11 commission. He appeared to be anxious to do so. If this has been posted elsewhere, I'll ask the mod to take this down.

Thursday Jan. 30, 2003; 11:24 a.m. EST Laurie Mylroie: Clintonized CIA Blocks Iraq-9/11 Evidence The CIA is blocking critical intelligence that links Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 attacks, a former top terrorism adviser to ex-President Bill Clinton contends, and by doing so, she says, the agency is weakening President Bush's case for war against Iraq. Asked about Salman Pak, the terrorist training camp near Baghdad where, according to a number of Iraqi defectors, al-Qaeda terrorists have practiced for years hijacking American airliners using the same methods employed on 9/11, Clinton Iraqi expert Laurie Mylroie told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg: "There's...

Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism czar in four successive administrations, testifies in front of the 9/11 Commission on Wednesday. But what should have been a serious inquiry into how a loosely knit gang of Islamic fanatics could rise to become one of history's most lethal and effective global terrorist organizations now promises to become a political spectacle. At the height of the presidential campaign season, Clarke has made irresponsible and untrue allegations that the Bush White House was indifferent to the threat posed by al Qaeda in the months leading up to the 9/11 attacks. Whether his charges...

<p>LONDON. — Richard Clarke, former White House counterterrorism czar for Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, testifies today before the commission investigating the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States. He is well-qualified to do so because few individuals over the last decade, inside or outside government, better understood the Islamic extremism threat in all its dimensions.</p>

Clinton administration diplomatic troubleshooter Mansoor Ijaz charged Monday that one-time White House terrorism czar Richard Clarke blocked his efforts to have Osama bin Laden extradited from the Sudan to the United States five years before the 9/11 attacks. "I was personally asked to brief Condoleezza Rice's deputy national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, on exactly what had gone wrong in the previous efforts to get bin Laden out of the Sudan, to get the terrorism data out of the Sudan," Ijaz told Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends." "In each case of things that were involved in the Clinton administration, Richard...

Did you just see what I saw ?!!

Condi Rice was just interviewed on Fox'N Friends and she did a slam-dunk on Richard Clarke. She properly noted that he had been Counter-Terrorism Czar for a number of years in the Clinton Administration and had plenty of opportunity to develop strategies to confront Al Qaeda which he (and that Administration) never pursued. She acknowledged that Clarke had a number of "ideas" about confronting and combatting terrorism -- many of which the Bush Administration adopted. But they were a set of "ideas" not a comprehensive strategy which President Bush was looking for. Typical Condi performance: flawless.

Mansoor Ijaz just called Richard Clarke essentially a liar. Challenged virtually all of his claims -- and accused Clarke of stonewalling Ijaz's efforts to capture Bin Laden via the Sudanese.

<p>ABDUL QADEER KHAN, NUCLEAR SCIENTIST, PAKISTAN: It pains me to realize in retrospect, that my entire lifetime achievement of providing foolproof national security to my nation, could have been placed in serious jeopardy on account of my activities, which were based in good faith, but on errors of judgment, related to unauthorized proliferation activities.</p>

Mansoor Ijaz On The Brit Hume Show (Fox News)Please help me fill-in the discussion with Mansoor Ijaz and Brit Hume about the spread of nuclear weapons. Mansoor said that at least 3 other countries beside Libya, Iran and N. Korea have nuclear technology from Pakistan and 'maybe' 2 others. He seemed to confirm that the terrorist have 'dirty bombs' and are anxious to use them now that the US is aware of them.

Plans for a spectacular attack on coalition forces in Iraq that would use chemical or biological weapons to kill up to 5,000 soldiers and civilians may be well underway, Fox News Mideast analyst Mansoor Ijaz is warning. "I have now heard three times in the last week, from separate sources that I have been talking to, that something big is being planned for Baghdad," Ijaz told Fox News "Special Report" host Brit Hume on Tuesday. "The idea that is being put forward is to kill as many as 3,000 to 5,000 people at one shot; something that would be similar...

<p>This is a partial transcript of Special Report with Brit Hume, Jan. 13, that has been edited for clarity.</p> <p>BRIT HUME, HOST: The administration is not saying anything about this, and it is not even clear officials know anything about it. But some sources in Iraq are talking about a development that could prove an important turn in the search for weapons of mass destruction. For more on this we turn to the man who so often seems to know things before everybody else.</p>