Another version of the 'Conspiracy theory", what will posting a link to this help when it didnt happen at all ?
'For Pakistan, the stalemate in Kunduz was turning into a disaster as hundreds of ISI officers and soldiers from the Frontier Corps aiding the Taliban were trapped there. They had been ordered to quit Afghanistan after 9/11 and had two months to escape, but instead they had stayed on to fight alongside the Taliban. Musharraf telephoned Bush and asked for a huge favour - a US bombing pause and the opening of an air corridor so that Pakistani aircraft could ferry his officers out of Kunduz. Bush and Vice President Cheney agreed, but the operation was top secret, with most cabinet ministers in the dark.
On November 15, 2001, Northern Alliance commanders outside Kunduz reported that Pakistani aircraft were flying into the city at night to airlift the Pakistanis. "Last night two planes, perhaps Pakistani, landed at Kunduz airport and we think they evacuated Pakistanis and Arabs from there," said Northern Alliance spokesman Mohammad Habeel. By November 23, The New York Times wwas reporting that as many as five Pakistani air force planes had landed in Kunduz. The Pakistanis certainly hinted strongly that something was on. Maj-Gen Rashid Qureshi, the army's chief spokesman, said that Islamabad was engaged "in negotiations" with the US Coalition for the safe evacuation of Pakistanis and Kunduz. The Pentagon denied that any such flights were being allowed. Gen Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that "the [Kunduz] runway is not usable, I mean there are segments that are unusable." Rumsfeld reiterated on December 2 that "neither Pakistan nor any other country flew any planes into Afghanistan to evacuate anybody."
In fact, neither man was telling the truth. A former US intelligence analyst, another senior US official, and two ambassadors in the region confirmed to me that the airlift had taken place. International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and UN officials who were on the ground in the north also confirmed the airlift. The American investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, who wrote about the airlift, reported that "the Pakistanis were indeed flown to safety, in a series of nighttime airlifts that were approved by the Bush administration." Hersh said that Taliban and al Qaeda leaders also escaped with them. Hamid Karzai told me that the airlift took place but that he never asked the Americans who escaped because "even the Americans did not know who got away." One senior US intelligence analyst told me, "The request was made by Musharraf to Bush, but Cheney took charge - a token of who was handling Musharraf at the time. The approval was not shared with anyone at State, including Colin Powell, until well after the event. Musharraf said Pakistan needed to save its dignity and its valued people. Two planes were involved, which made several sorties a night over several nights. They took off from air bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's northern areas, and landed in Kunduz, where the evacuees were waiting on the tarmac. Certainly hundreds and perhaps as many as one thousand people escaped. Hundreds of ISI officers, Taliban commanders, and foot soldiers belonging to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and al Qaeda personnel boarded the planes. What was sold as a minor extraction turned into a major air bridge. The frustrated US Special Operations Forces who watched it from the surrounding high ground dubbed it "Operation Evil Airlift."
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oh yeh and the alliance was only limited to some parts so its stupidity if any conspiracy therorist claims that the local taliban would have surrender or for that matter the alliance even had the power to negotiate anything which you had claimed.
